Physiology Lab Fall 2006 Stark Quiz 4


1. What type of lens corrects hyperopia or far-sightedness?

convex

2. When your ear was put to the tuning fork and speaker we heard beats, what exactly are
these beats?

constructive and destructive interference of sound waves

3. Is a non-taster for PTC a homozygote or heterozygote?

homozygous

4. What is the ligand for umami receptors?

glutamate

5. Waves are measured in cycles per second, but what are the units of frequency?

Hz

6. We said there is a condition of the eye called conjunctivitis, what is its common
Name?

pink eye

7. How many extraocular muscles are associated with they eye?

6

8. What structure gives the glow in animal eyes?

tapetum

9. What is the snail like structure in the ear called?

cochlea

10. In the finding the blind spot, we had the adjacent and opposite angle. Which trig
Function would we use?

tangent


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