A rounded knob that articulates with another bone is called a(n) ________.
A) sinus B) foramen C) condyle D) sulcus E) alveolus
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Question 2) A ________ is composed of a granular cluster of eight proteins called ________ with DNA wound around them.
A) centromere; chromatin
B) chromosome; histones
C) chromosome; centromeres
D) nucleosome; centrosomes
E) nucleosome; histones
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Question 3) Most people think that ulcers are caused by psychological stress. It was discovered that an acid-resistant bacterium, Heliobacter pylori, lives in the lining of the stomach.
If these bacteria cause ulcers, then treatment with an antibiotic should reduce ulcers. This line of investigation is an example of ________.
A) hypothetical reasoning
B) statistical analysis
C) hypothetico-deductive reasoning
D) experimental design
E) the inductive method
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Question 4) All the bones below belong to the axial skeleton, except the ________, which belongs to the appendicular skeleton.
A) scapula
B) stapes
C) thoracic vertebra
D) frontal bone
E) mandible
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Question 5) The process of using numerous observations to develop general principles and predictions about a specific subject is called ________.
A) the deductive method
B) statistical testing
C) a hypothesis
D) experimental design
E) the inductive method
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Question 6) The average number of bones in the adult skeleton is ________.
A) 206 B) 256 C) 56 D) 106 E) 156
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Question 7) Which of these is the correct sequence from simple to more complex?
A) Carbon, nitrogenous base, nucleotide, DNA, chromatin
B) Carbon, nucleotide, nitrogenous base, chromatin, DNA
C) Chromatin, carbon, nucleotide, nitrogenous base, DNA
D) Carbon, nitrogenous base, nucleotide, chromatin, DNA
E) Chromatin, DNA, nucleotide, nitrogenous base, carbon
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Question 8) The terms physics, physiology, and physician come from a term that ________ proposed to distinguish natural causes from supernatural causes.
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Schwann
D) Hippocrates
E) Avicenna
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Question 9) If a DNA molecule were known to be 22 thymine (T), what would be the percentage of guanine (G) present?
A) 28 B) 11 C) 78 D) 22 E) 8
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Question 10) Which of these is the best imaging technique for routinely examining the anatomical development of a fetus?
A) Auscultation
B) Sonography
C) PET scan
D) Radiography
E) MRI