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General biology 2
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
12/10/2015

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true
Definition

True or false?

Conifer pollen grains contain male gametophytes

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Sporophyte, pollen cone, microsporangia, pollen grain
Definition

Arrange the folowing structures, which can be found on male pine trees, from the largest structure to the smallest structure

Sporophyte, microsporangia, pollen cone, pollen grain

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ovule
Definition
Which structure is common to both gymniosperms an angiosperms?
Term
They are modified leaves
Definition
What is true of stamens, sepales, petals, carpels, and pinecone scales?
Term
Two sperm nuclei and one tube cell nucleus
Definition
In flowering plants, a mature male gametopyte contains
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generative cells
Definition
Which type of cells are not a type of cell found in a female gametophyte of an angiosperm?
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Double fertilization
Definition
One embryo involving one sperm cell and endosperm involving a second sperm cell
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stigma, style, ovary, micropyle
Definition

In typical angiosperm, what is the sequence of structures encountered by the tip of a growing pollen tube on its way to the egg?

Micropyle, style, ovary, stigma

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Biennial
Definition
what type of plant completes its lifecycle in two years and then dies?
Term
Axillary buds start growing
Definition
What happens when the apical meristem is damaged?
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tendril
Definition
which of the following would be an example of a modified leaf?
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No
Definition
are land plants composed of mesodermal tissue?
Term
Pneumatophores
Definition
What kind of modified roots are shown in the drawing to the right?
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cortex
Definition
Ground tissue in the stem of a plant that is outside of the vascular tissue
Term
simple squamous epithelium
Definition
type of epithelium with the flattest cells is
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stratefied cuboidal
Definition
What type of epithelium is composed of several layers of box-like cells
Term
few, extracellular matrix
Definition
All connective tissues have relatively ____ cells and a large amount of _____________ _____
Term
Lacunae
Definition
The cavities taht contain chondrocytes are called
Term
Cardiac muscles
Definition
Which type of muscles have intercalated disks?
Term
smooth muscles
Definition
food moves alon the digestive tract as the result of contractions by what type of muscles?
Term
axon
Definition
the region of a neuron that sends a stimulus on to the next neuron is the
Term
colonial choanoflagellate
Definition
the last common ancestor to all animals was most likely similar to a
Term
cephalization
Definition
a concentration of sensory structures at the anterior end
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blastocoel
Definition
The inside cavity of a blastula is called the
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pseudocoelomate
Definition
it has a coelom that forms between the endoderm and mesoderm
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cleavage
Definition
at which developmental stage should one be able to first distinguish a protostome embryo froma  deuterostome embryo
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protostomes
Definition
spiral and determinate cleavage, blastopore becomes mouth
Term
mouse
Definition

which of hte following organisms would have the highest surface-to-volume ratio

human, dog, mouse, elephant

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streamline
Definition
what body shape is seen in sharks penguins and aquatic mammals because it reduces drag for aquatic animals that swim fast
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homeostasis
Definition
our body maintains a constant internal environment, which is termed
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poriferan
Definition
animal that does not have true tissues is probably a
Term
mesohyl
Definition
amoebocytes, spicules, spongin, and choanocytescan all be observed in the __________ of various undisturbed sponges at one time or another
Term
osculum
Definition

which of the following is correctly associated with sponges?

osculum, gastrovascular cavity, spicules made of chitin, true tissues

Term
anthozoa
Definition
the members of which class of the phylum Cnidaria occur only as polyps
Term
apical meristem
Definition
You examine an onion root tip, the region of active cell division (via mitosis) is called the
Term
nurture and support neurons
Definition
the function of glial cells is to
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