Nervous System Quiz 603 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the first safe and effective vaccine against polio?

Correct Answer: B) Salk.

2. What nerve does sensory over the knee joint?

Correct Answer: B) Obturator nerve.

3. Which part of the brain does:thinking, voluntary, memory and emotions?

Correct Answer: D) Cerebrum.

4. The proper name for brain chemicals

Correct Answer: C) Neurotransmitters.

5. NAME THE ORGAN SYSTEM THAT CONTROLS ALL THE BODY FUNCTIONS

Correct Answer: A) NERVOUS SYSTEM.

6. Thick cord of nerve tissue protected by the vertebrae and links the brain to most of the nerves in the body

Correct Answer: A) Spinal cord.

7. What does our cranium do?

Correct Answer: C) Protect the brain.

8. The trochlear nerve does eye movement ONLY, so is this cranial nerve sensory, motor, or both?

Correct Answer: B) Motor.

9. If an axon is injured, which part of the neuron will break down?

Correct Answer: A) The portion distal to the injury and distal to the cell body.

10. Cholinergic receptors sensitive to tobacco-derived alkaloid

Correct Answer: A) H-cholinergic receptors.

11. The extensions of a neuron that receive electrochemical signals are called

Correct Answer: B) Dendrites.

12. End of the axon, where there are usually several branches extending toward the target cell.

Correct Answer: A) Axon Terminal.

13. Part of brain that helps you keep your balance.

Correct Answer: B) Cerebellum.

14. Numbed by the dentist when you're getting a cavity filled in the lower jaw

Correct Answer: B) Trigeminal.

15. There is one pair of ..... nerves.

Correct Answer: D) Coccygeal.

16. What is the last step in a reflex arc?

Correct Answer: B) Effector.

17. Neurons that are in the peripheral nervous system and tells the body how to respond.

Correct Answer: C) Motor Neurons.

18. What do we call the state of neurons when it is not firing a neural impulse?

Correct Answer: B) Resting potential.

19. Nerves are made up of

Correct Answer: B) Neurons.

20. Made of all the nerves outside of the central nervous system (not the brain and spinal cord)

Correct Answer: B) Peripheral nervous system.