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Lab Manual for Human Anatomy and Physiology, 4e (Martin)
Chapter 27 Nervous Tissue and Nerves
1) Cranial and spinal nerves are part of the central nervous system (CNS).
2) Neurons conduct action potentials (nerve impulses), but neuroglia do not.
3) Which type of neuroglia forms the myelin sheath around some axons of the PNS (peripheral nervous system)?
A) Schwann cells
B) Astrocytes
C) Satellite cells
D) Oligodendrocytes
E) Ependymal cells
4) Which type of neuron conducts nerve impulses from the central nervous system to muscles or glands?
A) Afferent neurons
B) Association neurons
C) Sensory neurons
D) Interneurons
E) Motor neurons
5) What is the function of ependymal cells?
A) They are the phagocytes of the brain.
B) They produce cerebrospinal fluid, and circulate it around the brain and spinal cord.
C) They produce the myelin sheath around axons of the peripheral nervous system.
D) They support the cell bodies of neurons in peripheral ganglia.
E) They produce the myelin sheath around axons of the central nervous system.
6) All structural types of neurons contain only one axon.
7) Neurons that have one dendrite and one axon extending from the cell body are called ________ neurons.
A) multipolar
B) efferent
C) bipolar
D) association
E) unipolar
8) A nerve is the same structure as a neuron.
9) A bundle of nerve fibers is surrounded by a layer of fibrous connective tissue called the
A) epineurium.
B) fascicle.
C) endoneurium.
D) neurilemma.
E) perineurium.
10) Sensory neurons are
A) always multipolar.
B) mostly unipolar, but some are bipolar.
C) always unipolar.
D) mostly multipolar, but some are bipolar.
E) always bipolar.
11) Which portion of a neuron originates action potentials (nerve impulses), to send to other neurons, glands, or muscle cells?
A) Nucleolus
B) Dendrite
C) Neurilemma
D) Axon hillock
E) Nissl bodies (chromatophilic substance)
12) Which of the following is NOT true of the myelin sheath?
A) The myelin sheath increases the speed of nerve impulse conduction.
B) The myelin sheath is an electric insulator.
C) The myelin sheath forms a wrapped coating around both axons and dendrites.
D) The myelin sheath is part of a living cell.
E) All of these are true of the myelin sheath.
13) Exchange of nutrients and other substances between CNS neurons and blood vessels is accomplished by
A) microglia.
B) oligodendrocytes.
C) satellite cells.
D) astrocytes.
E) Schwann cells.
14) What is found in the posterior root ganglion of a spinal nerve?
A) A cluster of sensory neuron cell bodies
B) A mass of axons of motor neurons
C) A cluster of cell bodies of interneurons
D) A cluster of motor neuron cell bodies
E) A mass of axons of interneurons
15) A peripheral process is a structure found only in ________ neurons.
A) bipolar
B) motor
C) multipolar
D) association
E) unipolar
16) The rarest structural type of neuron is a bipolar neuron.
17) Which of the following is true of interneurons?
A) They are only found in the peripheral nervous system.
B) They are also called efferent neurons.
C) They often connect sensory neurons to motor neurons.
D) They are directly connected to sensory receptors.
E) None of the choices is true of interneurons.
18) Which type of neuroglial cell has a cuboidal shape?
A) Microglia
B) Schwann cells
C) Ependymal cells
D) Oligodendrocytes
E) Astrocytes
19) Nodes of Ranvier are found only on
A) myelinated axons.
B) dendrites.
C) astrocytes.
D) Nissl bodies.
E) unmyelinated axons.
20) Pertaining to the nervous system, what is an effector?
A) A cell or nerve ending that transmits sensory information to a sensory neuron
B) An interneuron
C) A motor neuron
D) A type of neuroglia that physically supports neurons in the CNS
E) A muscle or gland that receives a nerve impulse from a motor neuron
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