ATI TEAS 6 – Science Test Questions with Complete Solutions
Which of the following describes the primary function of the respiratory system - ANS: to
... [Show More] take oxygen into the body while removing carbon dioxide
Which of the following is the first step of the the scientific method - ANS: make observations
The process of organisms with an advantageous trait surviving more often and producing more offspring than organisms without the advantageous trait describes which of the following basic mechanisms of evolution - ANS: natural selection
Which of the following is the group of basophils that produces follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) - ANS: gonadotrophs
Which of the following are considered the basic units of the female reproductive system, each containing a single immature egg cell that is released during ovulation - ANS: follicles
Which of the following describes the muscular organ that processes food material into increasingly smaller pieces, mixes it with saliva to create a bolus, and creates a barrier to transport food into the esophagus - ANS: tongue - primary muscle in digestion
Which of the following chambers of the heart receives blood returning from the lungs during pulmonary circulation - ANS: left atrium
Which of the following is the lobe in the cerebral cortex primarily responsible for processing and integrating sensory information received from the rest of the body - ANS: parietal lobe - primary sensory processing & integrating center of the brain
Which of the following is an example of adaptive, or specific, immunity - ANS: hummoral immune response
Which of the following describes a situation in which research results are consistent with every subsequent experiment, but the test used in the experiment does not measure what it claims to measure - ANS: reliable (consistent results) but not valid (does not measure correctly)
Which of the following Mendellian laws describes how pairs of alleles within genres separate and recombine separately from other genes - ANS: independent assortment - 2nd law of heredity
Which of the following describes how atomic radius varies across the periodic table - ANS: top to bottom (atoms gain more layers of electrons in orbitals) right to left (atoms have fewer valence elections & the attraction between nucleus and electrons decrease)
Which of the following is NOT a tissue layer found in skelatal bone - ANS: enamel (found in teeth) [Show Less]