Study Guide: Unit 1 Test
1. How would a DNA analyst’s job differ from a forensic anthropologist?
a. They may have to provide evidence for a court case.
b. They could use clay to reconstruct a face from a skull
c. They work to isolate small fragments of DNA from various items
d. They help to determine height, age, and sex of human remains
2. A forensic anthropologist would least likely be doing which of the following tasks?
a. Examining human remains after a natural disaster
b. Recovering DNA from a bloodstain
c. Estimating the height and ethnicity of an unidentified body
d. Using bone measurements to determine the sex of skeletal remains
3. Describe the way a person would look if they were standing in anatomical position.
4. What is the term that best describes a structure toward the stomach in comparison to the head?
5. What is the general term that best describes the back region of the body?
6. The armpit or axilla is ______to the coccyx.
7. The fingers are ______to the wrist.
8. The scapula is ______to the vertebral column.
9. The elbow is ______to the wrist.
10. Surgery is being done on the proximal part of the arm. Use an X to mark this location on the image below.
11. Match the areas marked on the body to the correct directional term below:
___Medial abdominal
___Lateral abdominal
___Dorsal
___Superior
___Anterior
___Posterior
___Superficial femoral
___Deep femoral
___Inferior
12. Label the following areas on the human body using your regional terms.
___Tarsal
___Umbilical
___Digital
___Patellar
___Pubic
___Cervical
___Axillary
___Brachial
___Carpal
___Sternal
___Cephalic
___Femoral
13. Looking at the lateral view of the skull, name the bones that correspond with the following locations:
______Location #1
______Location #2
______Location #3
______Location #4
______Location #5
______Location #6
______Location #7
14. Match the descriptions below with the correct corresponding tissue (they are used over again):
A. Epithelial tissue
B. Connective tissue
C. Muscle tissue
D. Nervous tissue
___ Primary function is communication
___ Primary function is support
___ Primary function is movement
___ Primary function is protection
___ Blood is an example
___ Ligaments are an example
___ Lining and coverings are an example
___ This tissue can be categorized as cardiac, smooth, and skeletal
15. Your orbicularis oris has lost the ability to communicate with your brain. Explain where this muscle is located, and describe how this damage would affect your body.
16. Which bone of the body do you feel would best help you determine the sex of an individual? Support your answer by explaining how this bone differs in males and females.
17. Which bone of the body would best help you determine the ethnicity of an individual? Support your answer by explaining how this bone differs in Mongoloids, Negroids, and caucasoids.
18. Identify the marked bones on the diagram below:
19. Explain what biometrics is.
20. Identify 2 different examples of biometrics. Choose one and explain one advantage and one disadvantage of using this technology.
21. What is the purpose of agarose gel in gel electrophoresis?
22. What do they add tracking dye to DNA samples?
23. Why does DNA have an overall negative charge?
24. How does agarose gel separate DNA fragments of different lengths?
25. Why are markers used in gels?
26. Why is gel electrophoresis used?
27. Using a pen, circle the smallest DNA fragment (label it as small), and label the largest DNA fragment (label it as large).
28. Why is ethidium bromide used in gel electrophoresis?