Practice Test

Biology: Body Fluids & Circulation

For Live Session on 17-Nov-2018 on NEETPrep YouTube Channel
1) The SA node is the normal pacemaker of 6) The largest of the white blood cells are the
the heart because the SA node _________
______________. 1. neutrophils
1. can form action potentials that can 2. monocytes
spread throughout the rest of the heart 3. macrophages
2. depolarizes to its threshold 4. lymphocytes
potential before other pacemakers in the
heart
7) Which one of the following series
3. forms a functional syncytium,
represents the correct path of blood
transmitting action potentials to
circulation?
neighboring cardiac fibers
1. left atrium, left ventricle, lungs,
4. is most likely to form an ectopic
right atrium, right ventricle, body
focus
2. right atrium, right ventricle, lungs,
left atrium, left ventricle, body
2) The time taken for an impulse to travel
3. left atrium, left ventricle, right
from the S-A to the A-V node is evidenced
atrium, right ventricle, lungs, body
in the _____.
4. right atrium, lungs, right ventricle,
1. QRS complex
left atrium, body, left ventricle
2. S-T interval
5. left atrium, lungs, left ventricle,
3. P-Q interval body, right atrium, right ventricle
4. QRS-T interval

3) Which condition is characterized by an 8) Choose the correct statement.

abnormal increase in red blood cell count?
1. polycythemia 1. Blood pressure in the pulmonary
2. anemia capillaries is lower than blood pressure in
3. leukemia the systemic capillaries.
4. porphyria 2. Blood pressure in the pulmonary
trunk is higher than blood pressure in the
4) Who is at risk for developing a fatal Rh aorta.
incompatibility?
1. any Rh+ fetus 3. More blood is pumped through
2. second Rh- fetus of Rh+ mother the systemic circulation each minute than
3. second Rh+ fetus of Rh- mother is pumped through the pulmonary
4. Rh- mother circulation.

5) Blood pressure is the pressure of blood 4. Pulmonary circulation is powered

against ________. by the left side of the heart.
1. a stethoscope
2. the skin of the upper arm
3. the capillaries of the lung
4. the wall of a blood vessel
 Practice Test
Biology: Body Fluids & Circulation
For Live Session on 17-Nov-2018 on NEETPrep YouTube Channel
9) Venous return would be increased by 13) While the semilunar valves are open during a
normal cardiac cycle, the pressure in the left
1. dilation of the veins. ventricle is
2. loss of the venous valves. 1. greater than the pressure in the aorta.
3. increased skeletal muscle activity. 2. less than the pressure in the aorta.
4. decreased respiratory rate. 3. the same as the pressure in the left atrium.

4. less than the pressure in the left atrium.

10) Which of these pressures pulls water into 14) If the SA node becomes damaged and
capillaries? nonfunctional, which of these is the most
1. blood hydrostatic pressure likely to occur?

2. blood colloid osmotic pressure 1. The heart will stop.

3. interstitial fluid pressure 2. The ventricles will contract, but the atria
will stop.
4. interstitial colloid osmotic pressure
3. Another part of the heart, possibly the AV
11) Action potentials pass from one cardiac node, will become the pacemaker.
muscle cell to another
4. The heart will beat faster.
1. through gap junctions.
5. The atria will keep contracting, but the
2. by a special cardiac nervous system. ventricles will stop.

3. because of the large voltage of the action 15) Pernicious anemia is an example of
potentials.
1. hypochromic anemia.
4. because of the plateau phase of the action
potentials. 2. nutritional anemia.

5. by neurotransmitters. 3. hemorrhagic anemia.

12) The greatest amount of ventricular filling 4. hemolytic anemia.

occurs during

1. the first one-third of diastole.

2. the middle one-third of diastole.

3. the last one-third of diastole.

4. ventricular systole.
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Biology: Body Fluids & Circulation
For Live Session on 17-Nov-2018 on NEETPrep YouTube Channel
16) For someone having a coronary thrombosis 19) The ____________ are to the walls of large
(blockage of a coronary artery by a blood clot), blood vessels as the coronary vessels are to
which of these chemicals is the most effective to the myocardium.
inject?
1. nutrient arteries and veins
1. histamine
2. continuous capillaries
2. thrombin
3. fenestrated capillaries
3. thromboxane
4. vasa vasorum
4. t-PA

17) Which of these statements about the ABO

20) A type of heart murmur called mitral valve
blood group is NOT true?
prolapse would most likely involve a defect in
1. A person with type O blood can donate
blood to individuals with type A, B, AB, or 1. the size or shape of the right
O blood types. atrioventricular opening

2. Transfusions should be made considering 2. the left chordae tendineae or papillary

the plasma of the donor and the muscles
erythrocytes of the patient (recipient). 3. one of the three cusps of the tricuspid
3. A person with type A blood should not valve
receive a transfusion from someone with 4. the structure of either semilunar valve
type AB blood.

4. A person with type O blood has both the A

and B antigens.

18) The veins of the gastrointestinal tract all

merge into some part of the ____________,
which shunts the blood to the liver for
absorption and processing of transported
materials.

1. renal portal system

2. hepatic anastomosis

3. hepatic portal system

4. gastrointestinal plexus
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Biology: Body Fluids & Circulation
For Live Session on 17-Nov-2018 on NEETPrep YouTube Channel
21) How can Rh antibodies, the very molecules
that cause hemolytic disease of the newborn,
prevent this disease when administered to an
Rh negative woman who is pregnant with an
Rh positive fetus?

1. the antibodies cross the placenta early in

development and desensitize the fetus's
blood

2. presence of the antibodies transforms the

fetus into an Rh negative individual

3. the antibodies destroy any Rh antigens

from the fetus before the mother is sensitized

4. none of the above; an Rh negative woman

cannot have an Rh positive child