Human Anatomy, 7e (Marieb/Mitchell/Smith)
Chapter 4 Tissues
4.1 Multiple Choice Questions
Figure 4.1
Use the diagram above to answer the following questions.
1) Which letter indicates microvilli?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: E
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 65
2) Which letter indicates the connective tissue layer?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 65
3) Which letter indicates the epithelium?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 65
4) Which letter indicates the basement membrane?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 65
5) Which letter on the diagram indicates motile structural elements of the epithelial membrane?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 65
Figure 4.2
Use the diagram above to answer the following questions.
6) Which letter indicates a cellular junction that prevents molecules from passing between epithelial cells?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: A
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 74-76
7) Which letter indicates the acellular layer that acts as a selective filter and a scaffold for regenerating epithelial cells?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 74-76
8) Which letter indicates tunnel-like junctions in the lateral membranes of adjacent epithelial cells?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 74-76
9) Which letter indicates junctions commonly associated with tissues under mechanical stress?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 74-76
10) Which letter indicates the cytoplasmic protein fiber that connects desmosomes?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) E
Answer: E
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 74-76
11) Which category of tissue is characterized by cells that have adhesion proteins and specialized cell-to-cell junctions?
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: D
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 74
12) Which major category of tissues has the most diverse and most numerous types of tissue?
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: C
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13) Histologists consider blood to be an example of what primary tissue category?
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: C
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14) Cells lining the digestive tube are characteristic of this tissue category.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: D
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 67
15) Pseudostratified columnar is one of the tissues of this category.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: D
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16) Which major tissue category includes tissues that function in secretion, absorption, and filtration?
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: D
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17) Bone and cartilage are examples of tissues in this category.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: C
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18) Which tissue category contains tissues comprised of cells containing myofilaments?
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: A
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19) The primary contractile tissue of the heart characterizes tissues in this category.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 93
20) This tissue type, in addition to certain muscle tissues, is capable of generating electrical impulses.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: B
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21) Ligaments are examples of tissues in this category.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: C
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22) The brain and spinal cord are composed primarily of this tissue type.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: B
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23) This type of tissue includes smooth and cardiac.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: A
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24) Tissues in this category are characterized by an extracellular matrix that holds some amount of fluid.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: C
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25) Adipocytes are found in tissues belonging to this category.
A) muscle
B) nervous
C) connective
D) epithelial
Answer: C
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26) Which of the following is not associated with connective tissue?
A) areolar
B) collagen
C) goblet cells
D) chondrocytes
Answer: C
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27) The major function of stratified squamous epithelium is
A) diffusion.
B) absorption.
C) filtration.
D) protection from abrasion.
Answer: D
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28) Simple squamous epithelia would not provide
A) protection from abrasion.
B) diffusion.
C) filtration.
D) secretion.
Answer: A
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29) What do goblet cells secrete?
A) enzymes
B) histamine
C) mucin
D) antibodies
Answer: C
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30) A structure that secretes hormones into the blood is
A) a plasma cell.
B) a goblet cell.
C) an endocrine gland.
D) an exocrine gland.
Answer: C
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31) Of the types of lining and covering membranes, the only one that is drier than the others is
A) cutaneous.
B) serous.
C) mucous.
D) parietal.
Answer: A
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32) The difference between a basal lamina and a basement membrane is that
A) the basal lamina is thicker.
B) they lie on opposite surfaces of the epithelium.
C) a basal lamina plus a layer of reticular fibers equals a basement membrane.
D) only the basal lamina can be seen by light microscopy.
Answer: C
Diff: 3 Page Ref: 76
33) Which of the following is not a characteristic of epithelia?
A) highly cellular with little extracellular matrix
B) innervated
C) specialized cell-cell junctions
D) vascular
Answer: D
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 66
34) Which of the following provides the least resistance to diffusion?
A) simple columnar epithelium
B) simple cuboidal epithelium
C) simple squamous epithelium
D) stratified squamous epithelium
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 67
35) The major function of pseudostratified columnar epithelium is
A) secretion.
B) filtration.
C) protection.
D) absorption.
Answer: A
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36) A type of connective tissue that is not a connective tissue proper is
A) dense irregular connective tissue.
B) areolar tissue.
C) adipose tissue.
D) cartilage.
Answer: D
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37) A stratified epithelium that thins and flattens as the tissue stretches is a
A) pseudostratified epithelium.
B) stratified cuboidal epithelium.
C) stratified squamous epithelium.
D) transitional epithelium.
Answer: D
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38) Only one type of fiber in connective tissue can be stretched and then recoil—return to its original length and shape. This fiber is the
Answer: elastic fiber.
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39) A highly branched gland whose walls do not balloon into spherical sacs is called
A) compound alveolar.
B) compound tubular.
C) compound tubuloalveolar.
D) simple branched alveolar.
Answer: B
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40) Which one of the following basic types of tissues functions to control the body?
A) epithelial
B) connective
C) muscle
D) nervous
Answer: D
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41) Which one of the following basic types of tissues has an extracellular matrix?
A) epithelial
B) connective
C) muscle
D) nervous
Answer: B
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42) Which one of the following basic types of tissues functions as a covering tissue for the body?
A) epithelial
B) connective
C) muscle
D) nervous
Answer: A
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 65
43) An epithelium in which the basal layer of cells is cuboidal and the apical layer has cells that are thin, flat and irregular in shaper is a ______epithelium.
A) stratified squamous
B) simple columnar
C) stratified cuboidal
D) simple cuboidal
Answer: A
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44) The thinnest type of epithelium is
A) simple squamous.
B) pseudostratified columnar.
C) stratified squamous.
D) stratified columnar.
Answer: A
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45) Microvilli can perform all of the following functions except
A) enhance the rate of absorption.
B) enhance the rate of secretion.
C) moving and propelling fluids.
D) anchoring mucus.
Answer: C
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46) The type of cell junction that permits small sugar molecules and ions to pass from the cytoplasm of one cell to that of another is a
A) tight junction.
B) gap junction.
C) desmosome.
D) zonula occludens.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 76
47) Ligaments consist primarily of which kind of connective tissue?
A) loose areolar
B) dense irregular
C) cartilage
D) dense regular
Answer: D
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48) In connective tissue proper, ground substance is manufactured and secreted by which type of cell?
A) fibroblast
B) endothelial cell
C) chondroblasts
D) osteocytes
Answer: A
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49) Use logic to deduce which of the following tissues is on the anterior surface of a person's eyeball.
A) epithelial
B) connective
C) muscle
D) nervous
Answer: A
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50) The distinguishing characteristic between tight junctions and adherens junctions is that
A) adherens junctions attach to the actin myofilaments of the cytoskeleton, whereas tight junctions do not.
B) adherens junctions involve integral membrane proteins, whereas tight junctions do not.
C) tight junctions are present near apical lateral borders, whereas adherens junctions are located near basal lateral borders.
D) tight junctions involve fusion of proteins on adjacent cells, whereas adherens junctions create tunnels between adjacent cells.
Answer: A
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51) Connective tissue that must resist forces pulling it from many different directions without stretching would most likely be
A) areolar connective tissue.
B) dense irregular connective tissue.
C) dense regular connective tissue.
D) reticular connective tissues.
Answer: B
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52) Which of the following is not a characteristic of the inflammatory response?
A) attacks and eliminates specific foreign molecules
B) involves release of chemicals that cause local vasodilation
C) occurs within connective tissue
D) results in edema and delivery of chemicals needed for repair
Answer: A
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53) Glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans are components of
A) blood.
B) inflammation.
C) ground substance.
D) reticular fibers.
Answer: C
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54) It might be argued that all the defense mechanisms in areolar connective tissue act to prevent infection from reaching which other tissue type?
A) bone
B) epithelium
C) blood
D) muscle
Answer: C
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55) Despite their name, many types of cell junction are not very strong at joining and holding cells together. The cell junctions that best keep cells from being pulled apart are
A) tight junctions.
B) gap junctions.
C) desmosomes.
D) zonula occludens.
Answer: C
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 75
56) Fat is a form of ______tissue.
A) epithelial
B) connective
C) muscle
D) nervous
Answer: B
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57) During repair of a scrape or cut through the skin, a blood clot is replaced with collagen-rich granulation tissue in a process called
A) inflammation.
B) organization.
C) repair.
D) regeneration.
Answer: B
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58) All lining and covering membranes consist of
A) an epithelium only.
B) a serosa.
C) an epithelium, a connective tissue, and smooth muscle.
D) epithelium and connective tissue.
Answer: D
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59) Inflamed tissue is often warm to the touch because of
A) accumulation of bacterial toxins.
B) increased blood flow to the area.
C) infiltration by neutrophils.
D) leakage of clotting proteins.
Answer: B
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60) The best definition of fibrosis is
A) the production of collagen fibers.
B) the production of elastic fibers.
C) the formation of dense regular connective tissue.
D) the formation of scar tissue.
Answer: D
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61) Cancer can arise from each of the following except
A) induced apoptosis.
B) exposure to a carcinogen.
C) inactivation of a tumor-suppressor gene.
D) turning on of oncogenes.
Answer: A
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62) In connective tissue, extracellular matrix is not exactly the same as ground substance, because the matrix also contains
A) fibers.
B) cells.
C) an epithelium.
D) blood.
Answer: A
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63) When cells from a cancerous tumor travel to other parts of the body, this process is called
A) carcinogenesis.
B) malignancy.
C) metastasis.
D) transformation.
Answer: C
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64) A muscle fiber is
A) the same as a collagen fiber that is viewed by electron microscopy.
B) part of a striation of a muscle cell.
C) a muscle cell.
D) an intercalated disc.
Answer: C
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65) Of the following, the tissue with the greatest capacity for regeneration is
A) skeletal muscle.
B) neurons.
C) epithelium.
D) smooth muscle.
Answer: C
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66) Cartilage is a form of ______tissue.
A) epithelial
B) connective
C) muscle
D) nervous
Answer: B
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67) A common example of a unicellular exocrine gland is
A) a fibroblast.
B) any hormone-secreting cell.
C) an endothelial cell.
D) a goblet cell.
Answer: D
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68) Tissue types which are known as mucous and serous membranes are comprised of sheets of epithelial cells and
A) adipose tissue.
B) areolar connective tissue.
C) reticular connective tissue
D) elastic connective tissue.
Answer: B
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 89
69) When unstretched, transitional epithelium looks most like ______epithelium.
A) simple squamous
B) pseudostratified columnar
C) stratified squamous