TEAS TEAS-SECTION-2 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

TEAS TEAS-SECTION-2 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  Which vitamin is synthesized within the human body?

  A. vitamin D
  B. vitamin E
  C. vitamin C
  D. vitamin A
  A. vitamin D

• Question 2:

  Ball and socket joints, pivot joints, plane joints, and hinge joints are which type of joints?

  A. All of them are cartilaginous joints.
  B. All of them are synovial joints.
  C. Ball and socket and pivot joints are synovial joints. Plane and hinge joints are cartilaginous joints.
  D. Ball and socket joints are synovial joints. The rest are fibrous joints.
  B. All of them are synovial joints.

• Question 3:

  Which of the following is exchanged between two or more atoms that undergo ionic bonding?

  A. electrical charges
  B. valence electrons
  C. transitory electrons
  D. neutrons
  B. valence electrons

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  An ionic bond forms when one atom donates an electron from its outer shell, called a valence electron, to another atom to form two oppositely charged atoms.

• Question 4:

  The adrenal glands are part of the __________.

  A. respiratory system.
  B. emphatic system.
  C. endocrine system.
  D. immune system.
  C. endocrine system.

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  The adrenal glands are part of the endocrine system.

  They sit on the kidneys and produce hormones that regulate salt and water balance and influence blood pressure and heart rate.

• Question 5:

  Which pyrimidine base is only found in RNA?

  A. adenine
  B. uracil
  C. cytosine
  D. guanine
  B. uracil

• Question 6:

  Which of these groups of physical quantities consists only of scalars?

  A. time, velocity, force
  B. mass, velocity, acceleration
  C. speed, weight, acceleration
  D. mass, speed, time
  D. mass, speed, time

• Question 7:

  Which of these is not a part of the central nervous system?

  A. spinal cord
  B. tract (bundle of nerve fibers/axons)
  C. brain
  D. cranial nerves
  D. cranial nerves

• Question 8:

  A large amount of energy is produced in the center of sun by which phenomenon?

  A. chemical reaction
  B. nuclear fission
  C. nuclear fusion
  D. radioactive decay
  C. nuclear fusion

• Question 9:

  Which of the following correctly lists the cellular hierarchy from the simplest to the most complex structure?

  A. organ system, organism, organ, tissue, cell
  B. cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism
  C. tissue, cell, organ, organ system, organism
  D. organism, organ system, organ, tissue, cell
  B. cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism

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  The cellular hierarchy starts with the cell, the simplest structure, and progresses to organisms, the most complex structures.

• Question 10:

  If a cell is placed in a hypertonic solution, what will happen to the cell?

  A. It will swell.
  B. It will shrink.
  C. It does not affect the cell.
  D. It will stay the same.
  B. It will shrink.

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  A hypertonic solution is a solution with a higher particle concentration than in the cell, and consequently lower water content than in the cell. Water moves from the cell to the solution, causing the cell to experience water loss and shrink.