Bio 27/28 – Flashcard
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Aquatic animals that strain floating plants and animals from the water...
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decaying plant an animal remains
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Some mollusks are detrivores. Their main food source is...
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inside specialized cells
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Intracellular digestion occurs when food is digested
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body space in some invertebrates where digestive and circulatory functions occur
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A gastrovascular cavity is the...
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Grass
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A side to side movement of the jaws would be most useful in an animal that eats
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GL
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Look at figure 27-1. The teeth in this skull are best suited for... (Grinding leaves)
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Thin, moist, selectively permeable membrane.
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Gases diffuse most efficiently across a...
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Simple diffusion
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Oxygen and carbon dioxide move across respiratory membranes by...
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Lower than the concentration of oxygen in the air or water
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Oxygen constantly diffuse from air to water into an animal's bloodstream. For this to happen, the concentration of oxygen in the blood must be...
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Promote diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air or water.
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By pumping water over their gills, fish and aquatic mollusks...
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Dolphin
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What aquatic animal uses lungs to breathe?
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Terrestrial Invertebrates
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Mantle cavities, tracheal tubes, and book lungs are all types of respiratory structures in...
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They must keep their respiratory membranes moist, even in dry environments.
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In what way does living on land present a challenge to terrestrial animals?
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Birds
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Which group of animals has the most efficient gas exchange?
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Blood flows through a system of vessels throughout the body.
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A closed circulatory system is one in which...
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In blood vessels and sinuses.
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In the open circulatory system of some mollusks blood is found...
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pumping blood out of the gills
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The ventricle in a single loop circulatory system is responsible for...
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exchanging carbon dioxide for oxygen from the air
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n vertebrates with a double-loop circulation, the loop that passes through the lungs is responsible for...
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Removing metabolic wastes from the body.
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Excretion is the process of...
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Uric Acid
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The white paste that bird excrete is...
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Their kidneys produce small amounts of concentrated urine.
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How do saltwater fish conserve water?
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Malpighian tubules
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Butterflies and house flies convert ammonia to uric acid in their
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Stimulus
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Information in the environment that causes an animal to react is...
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Many interneurons
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The more complex animal's response to a stimulus, the more likely it is that the animal has...
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C
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Study Figure 28-1. Which of the letters represents an interneuron? (C)
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Sensory cell to sensory neuron to interneuron to motor neuron to muscle
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What represents a neural circuit that would be involved n the response to a stimulus?
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Nerve Net
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What is the simplest form of a nervous system?
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Cerebrum
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The part of the brain that is responsible for you responding to this question is the...
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Spinal Cord
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The part of the vertebrate nervous system that connects the brain and the rest of the body is called the...
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to grow
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What does molting enable arthropods to do?
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it grows with the animal.
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What is a characteristic of a endoskeleton?
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Joints provide flexibility and freedom of movement.
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Joints are critical feature of both endoskeletons and exoskeletons because...
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Connects muscles to bones.
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A tendon is a tough piece of connective tissue that...
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Meiosis
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Gametes are formed by
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Hermaphrodite
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A land snail is an animal that can produce both eggs and sperm at the same time. This animal is a...
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Must take place in water
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External Fertilization in chordates
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Mammals
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What group of animals only uses internal fertilization?
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IM
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The type of development shown in Figure 28-3 is a result of... (Incomplete Metamorphosis)
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only oviparous embryos can hatch outside the mother's body
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The difference between an oviparous and ovoviviparous species is that...
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resembles an adult of the same species, but a larva does not
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One difference between a nymph and a larva is that a nymph...
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Marsupials
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The mammals whose offspring are little more than embryos are...
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They are waterproof.
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The shells of amniotic eggs of birds, reptiles, and egg laying mammals all share what?
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Body cells and pathogens
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An animal's immune system must be able to tell the difference between...
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Circulatory System
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The system that helps all others maintain homeostasis by transporting oxygen, nutrients, carbon dioxide and wastes is the...
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Retreat to an underground burrow.
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A good way for a lizard to conserve its body heat in cold, windy weather would b to...
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Regulates its body temperature party by generating its own body heat.
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An endotherm is an animal that...
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B
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In Figure 27-10, which cell shows a fish's body that is gaining water because the salt content is its body higher than the water around it? (B)
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F (Water flowing out of the fish's body)
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In Figure 27-10, what is happening to the fish in panel E? (Flowing)
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BRA (Bony Fish, Reptiles, Amphibians)
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which three groups of animals are likely to rely most heavily on their sense of smell? (BRA)
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L
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How would you expect its olfactory bulbs to compare to it optic lobes? (Olfactory bulbs would be larger)
