Free Anatomy and Physiology for Sport MCQs with Answers

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  • A. 120 days
  • B. 140 days
  • C. 160 days
  • D. 180 days

Explanation: Red blood cells normally circulate for about 120 days before old cells are removed mainly by the spleen and liver.

Correct answer: 120 days
  • A. Left ventricle
  • B. Left Auricle
  • C. right Auricle
  • D. Right ventricle

Explanation: The aorta is the main artery leaving the left ventricle and carries oxygenated blood to the body.

Correct answer: Left ventricle
  • A. Axons
  • B. Neurons
  • C. Nucleous
  • D. Tuberclosis

Explanation: Neurons are the basic nerve cells that receive and transmit electrical signals.

Correct answer: Neurons
  • A. White blood cells
  • B. Platelets
  • C. Red blood cells
  • D. Mitocondria

Explanation: Red blood cells carry oxygen using haemoglobin and transport some carbon dioxide back toward the lungs.

Correct answer: Red blood cells
  • A. 306
  • B. 206
  • C. 212
  • D. 312

Explanation: A typical adult human skeleton has 206 bones. The number is higher in infants because several bones later fuse during growth.

Correct answer: 206
  • A. Muscle typing
  • B. Muscular strength
  • C. Muscular speed
  • D. Muscular Endurance

Explanation: A muscle biopsy can identify the proportion and characteristics of slow-twitch and fast-twitch fibres, a process called muscle fibre…

Correct answer: Muscle typing
  • A. Suture
  • B. Inter vertebral disc
  • C. Hinge
  • D. Bergma

Explanation: A hinge joint is a synovial joint that mainly permits bending and straightening, as at the elbow and knee.

Correct answer: Hinge
  • A. Ankle
  • B. toes
  • C. Phalanges
  • D. Wrist

Explanation: The wrist contains ellipsoidal, also called condyloid, joints that allow movement in two planes.

Correct answer: Wrist
  • A. Sacroplasm
  • B. Hemoglobin
  • C. Fast twitch fiber
  • D. Slow twitch fiber

Explanation: Muscle enlargement involves hypertrophy, including an increase in sarcoplasm and contractile components within muscle fibres.

Correct answer: Sacroplasm
  • A. Latera & Medial
  • B. Frontal & Dosral
  • C. Supenation & Proxation
  • D. Saggital & pronal

Explanation: Anterior refers to the front side of the body and posterior to the back, commonly described as frontal and dorsal in simplified…

Correct answer: Frontal & Dosral
  • A. Tibialus posterior
  • B. Deltoid
  • C. Sartorius
  • D. Rectus femur

Explanation: A bipennate muscle has fibres attached to both sides of a central tendon, forming a feather-like arrangement.

Correct answer: Rectus femur
  • A. Pectorails Major
  • B. Rhomboid Major
  • C. Sartorius
  • D. Brachialis

Explanation: A radiate, or convergent, muscle has fibres spreading from a broad origin toward a narrower insertion.

Correct answer: Pectorails Major
  • A. Rhomboid Major
  • B. Sartorius
  • C. Pectorails Major
  • D. Brachialis

Explanation: Longitudinal muscles have fibres running mostly parallel to the muscle’s long axis and are typically strap-like.

Correct answer: Sartorius
  • A. Febula
  • B. Redial
  • C. ulna
  • D. Calcanium

Explanation: In anatomical position, the ulna lies on the medial, or little-finger, side of the forearm.

Correct answer: ulna
  • A. Relaxation of heart
  • B. Contraction of heart
  • C. Volume of heart
  • D. Output of heart

Explanation: Diastole is the phase when the heart muscle relaxes and its chambers fill with blood.

Correct answer: Relaxation of heart
  • A. 2
  • B. 3
  • C. 4
  • D. 5

Explanation: The body is commonly studied in three anatomical planes: sagittal, frontal or coronal, and transverse or horizontal.

Correct answer: 3
  • A. Fertilization to the end of the first week
  • B. Third to ten month
  • C. Second to eight week
  • D. Neonatal period

Explanation: The fetal period begins after the embryonic period, roughly from the ninth week until birth, commonly described in basic texts as the…

Correct answer: Third to ten month
  • A. opposite side of the body
  • B. towrds the belly
  • C. same side of the body
  • D. none

Explanation: Ipsilateral combines the idea of being on the same side, while contralateral means the opposite side.

Correct answer: same side of the body
  • A. coronary artries
  • B. inferior venacava
  • C. superior venacava
  • D. Veins & artries

Explanation: The coronary arteries branch from the aorta and deliver oxygenated blood directly to the heart muscle.

Correct answer: coronary artries
  • A. 3
  • B. 4
  • C. 5
  • D. 6

Explanation: There are four pulmonary veins, two from each lung, and they carry oxygenated blood into the left atrium or auricle.

Correct answer: 4