Pre Test Questions (Exam 3)

A thermosensory neuron in the skin converts heat energy to nerve impulses via a conversion called _____.

Sensory adaptation is apparent when _____.

The sense described as umami is one of _____.

Sensory transduction in the auditory system is much like transduction of _____.

The knee-jerk reflex has sensory neurons arising in the _____, interneurons in the _____, and efferent neurons that stimulate contraction in the _____.

The energy for sensory transduction by the lateral line system in fish comes from _____.

The visual information used by honeybees includes these elements that are not apparent to humans

At the neuromuscular junction, the arrival of acetylcholine on the muscle most immediately causes _____.

Myosin heads have binding sites for _____.

Bees can see colors we cannot see, and they can detect minute amounts of chemicals we cannot sense. Unlike many insects, bees cannot hear very well. A biologist would probably give which of the following as the ultimate explanation for their poor hearing?

Imagine that you are studying the food preferences of a lizard species across its range. You have hypothesized that because these populations are fairly separate from one another, the lizards have evolved different food preferences. You discover that in the desert, the lizard seems to prefer various types of flies, whereas at higher, wetter altitudes, it prefers one type of beetle. Does this observation support your hypothesis?

You observe a large black bird with a shiny black crest engaging in courtship behavior with a little brown bird. It would be reasonable to hypothesize that this is an example of _____.

An unlearned behavior directly linked to a stimulus that is carried to completion once initiated and is essentially unchangeable is _____.

Animal communication involves what type of sensory input?

The fundamental excitable cell in the nervous system is the _____.

When light first enters the human eye, the first structure that it must pass through is the _____.

Rods and cones are similar in that they both _____.

Motor cortex and somatosensory cortex are _____.