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Biology
Undergraduate 3
03/15/2011

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Term
modes of sexual reproduction
Definition
meiosis
Term
fciliates seual reproduction
Definition

conjugation

 

macronucelus&micronucleus

Term
function of macronucleus
Definition
protein coding
Term
ciliates seual reproduction stage
Definition
macronucleus dissolves form 2 haploid nuclei , swap nuclei between individual
Term
sexual reproduction
Definition
slower than asexual reproduction, more variation
Term
how ciliate increase genetic variation
Definition
dozen mating types
Term
natural evolutionary group contain ciliates is called
Definition
ciliophora
Term
paramerium
Definition
ciliate, mobile predators in freshwater, marine, soil enviromoent
Term

ciliophora

dinozoa

apicomplex belong to the

Definition
aueolates (sacs in outer membrane)
Term
dinozoa
Definition
very important free living group in ocean & lake . cellulose covering base of food chain.
Term
plasmodium is belong to
Definition
apicomplexa
Term
Malaria
Definition
1/2 people who have ever lived died of complication of malaria
Term
4 nobel prize for malaria
Definition

1. treatment of syphylis by malarial fever induction

2. insecticidal properties of DDT

3.isolation of plasmodium

 

Term
fact of malaria
Definition

2 billion people infected

300 million infected every yr

2-3 million die yr

infection cycle

difficulty of cure

used to be rampant in america

global warming will spread

Term
diease producing protozoa
Definition

amoebozoa

 

flagellates

  1.Guardua lamblia

2.trichomonas

3.trypanosoma

Term
Amoeboza -entamoeba hystolica
Definition

casues dysentry ,gut damage, cardiac failure

500 million infections worldwide

flies and cockroaches are the insect vectors

 

Term
Giardia
Definition
diarrhea, gastritis
Term
trichomonas
Definition
a sexually tranmitted dieases of vagina & urethra, non lethal inflammation, irritation
Term
trypanosoma
Definition

African sleeping sickness-encephalitis coma, death

s.american ,eart disease

infects 15 milllion humans, kills cattle in parts of africa

Term
CCiliaphora
Definition
especially abundant as % of fauna in sulfide system of sands and muds
Term
amoeba like
Definition

rhizaria (root foot)

foraminifera

Term
foraminifera
Definition

secrets a hardshell of CaCo3 or sand grains

root-like or hair like pseudopodia

benthos and plankton(float in ocean )--all marine(bottom)

size range 100um to 20 cm

dominate biomass of deep sea sediment

Term
uses of forams
Definition

oil exploration

climate history 7 past ocean circulation

Term
forams climate history recorder
Definition

it record 100,000 year Milankovitch cycles

which is orbital perdiodcity of the planet that causes the oscillation of glacial ice  over last 2 million yrs

Term
Radiolaria
Definition

Rhizaria

 

secretes silica shells, internal skeleton

useful in paleo climate study

Term
Porifera
Definition

no nerve cells , no muscle cell, no tissues, no organsevoleved from flagellates

marine and freshwater

phylum of metagoa

Term
sponges characteristic
Definition

10 cell types in body wall

 

ostia (incurrent pores =dermal pores) allow intake of water

 

colared cells (=choanocytes)

Term
function of collar cells
Definition

1. they generate currents that help maintain circulation of seawater with in and through the sponge

2. they capture small food particles

3. the capture incoming sperm for fertilization

 

Term
spicules
Definition
the material made up sponge skeleton(SiO2),carbonate(CaCo3), protein (spongin)
Term
3 types of sponge cell that their function
Definition

spicules secreted by skerocytes , spongeocytes

 

amoebocyctes watnder thru body gathering food

 

choanocytes make food current, and respiration and waste disposal

 

Term
type of body wall
Definition

asconoid

syncnoid

leuconoid

Term

three classes of sponge

 

Definition

calcares -- calcerou spicules, 3 or 4 pointed

 

Hexactinellida (=Hyalospongia) -SiO2 spicules 6 pointed

 

Demospongias - silica + protein skeleton 1-,4- pointed or protein nework

Term
two types of life positions
Definition

epifauna --- top of bentho substrate

 

infauna -- within substrate

Term
three types of mobility pattern
Definition

mobile

sessile

attached

Term
fours type of feeding stratigies
Definition

1. filter feeder(=suspension feeder)

2.deposit feeder

3.herbivore

4.carnivore

Term
coral and sponge symbionts
Definition
colloidal /dissolved organic matter secreted by coral's phyosynthic symbionts is feed on by sponge
Term
characteristic of Cnidaria&cttenophora
Definition

zooplankton, radially symmmerical

 

more abundanted than sponges due to presence of digestive, muscle, nerve tissue

 

no respiratory, excretory, vascular apparatus

Term
cnidaria
Definition
also called coelenterate
Term
characteristic of cnidaric
Definition

mouth + digesteive cavity (bigger food particles)

 

nervous system (mobility)

 

nematocysts (stinging cells ) (predation)

 

colonial life habit in same groups

 

 

Term
two form of cnidaria
Definition

polyp (benthic)

 

medusa (pelagic, planktonic

 

)

 

Term
comparsion between cnidaria and cenophores
Definition
cnidaria have 100 times as more spp than ctenophores
Term
two life forms of cnidaria
Definition

1.polyp

2.medusa

Term
chracterisitic of Cnidaria
Definition

mouth +digestive cavity (bigger food particles)

 

nervous system (mobility)

 

benaticysts (=stinging cells )

 

colonial life habit

Term
cnidaria anatomy
Definition

two body walls

 

mesoglea in between epidermis, gastrodermis

Term
cell types of cnidaria
Definition

1.muscle cells

2.interestitial cells

3.cnidae (=cnidoblasts) that contain nematocysts 

4.muscus cells

5.nerve cells

Term
classification of Cnidaria
Definition

1. hydrozoa

2. scy[hpzpa

3. anthozoa

Term
class hydrozoa
Definition

simple mouth
(contrast to anthozoa), no nematocysts in gasterodermis

 

polypoid or medusoid

 

both solitary & colonial ofrms

 

benthic or planktonic(more common benthic polyps)

 

polyps take 3 different forms -reproductive, feeding, defensive polyps.

 

pelagic form : chondrophores

 siphonophores (portoguese man-o-war)

 

 

Term
scyphozoa (jellyfish)
Definition

medusa dominates

nematocysts on tentacles

mesogles is very thick

some members of cubozoa

alternatic genrations poly->medusa

some have eyes

 

 

Term
antozoa
Definition

polyp dominates

anenomes, corals

 

Term
anthozoan and hydrozoan polyp differiation
Definition

mouth slit shaped and ectoderm extends in a tobular pharynx

 

coeleteron divided into longtitudinal messenteries and supported by septa in corals

 

mesenteria extendable , gastroderm filaments

 

Term
order actinaria
Definition
sea anenomes
Term
order scelractinia
Definition
stony coral(=hexacorals)
Term
order S.C. Octocorallia
Definition

alycyonarian (=octocorals)

 

sea fans,

sean pens

Term
Octocorals
Definition

sea pens

 

sea fans

 

pipe organ coral

 

8 tentacles, pinnate

 

amoebocytes in coenenchyme secrete internal skeleton

 

 

Term
stony (scleractinian) corals
Definition

- colonial

-secrete calcium carbonate

-skeleton lies outside & underneath soft tissue

-polyps mid body connection

-abundant

-photosynthetic symbioants ex. zooxanthelle

Term
ctenophora
Definition
abundant plankton
Term
charicteristic of ctenophora
Definition

colloblasts

 

radial symmetry

 

2 body walls + measoglea

4 lobed stomach + 2 tentacles

comb rows of cilia

low O2, out competing fish

 

Term
zooxanthellae
Definition
symobiosis photosynthetic protists in coral
Term
benifit of symbionts 
Definition
increase CaCo3 deposition rate by 10x
Term
symbionts function
Definition

coral kidneys

 

process coral waste (Co2, Phosphates, Nitrates)

 

 

Term
three way photosynthetic flagellas help
Definition

produce O2

 

lower Co2- increase CaCO3 deposite

process coral wastes

produce C14 - building coral skeleton

Term
threes ways of coral competition
Definition

overgrowth

 

overtopping

 

digestive dominance. aggression with mesentarial filaments

Term
pacific coral diversity v.s Carribean coral diversity
Definition

Pocillopora , top pacific coral competitor, decrease bio diversity

 

Carribean, no one species i best in all. increase diversity in time.

Term
coral ecological declination
Definition
run off nutrient feed starfish larva , bloom star fish feed on coral
Term
stage of overfishing leading to coral decline
Definition

1. herbivorous fish overfished

2.other herbivore increase

3.fish decrease, sea urchin increase

4. Diadema kills by disease

5. macroalgae overgrow reefs

6. coral die

Term
temperture effect on coral decling
Definition

1. gobal warming

2. coral bleaching & polyps die

3. confine to 20-30 degree by light

 

Term
effect of increasing Co2
Definition

low ph ocean water- Caco3 disoblves

 

weak coral skeleton

Term
limting factors on coral survival
Definition

light  (<50m)

 

waves - influence shape of colony

 

sediment - people increase erosion , coral down

Term
synthesis of amino acid
Definition
aldehyde + hydrogen cyanide + water ->amino acid
Term
synthesis of purines
Definition
hydrogen cyanide(x5)
Term
sythesis of ribose sugar
Definition
formaldehyde (x5) -> ribose
Term
formation of protocells
Definition
hearing ,drying, wetting amino acid mixture, then plymerize into proteins
Term
protein formation by clay polymerization
Definition
clay minerals attract nueleotide components as well as polymerize proteins
Term
possible sites for orginin of life
Definition
tide pools, lakes, or deep ocean ridges, vents
Term
miller experiment gases
Definition
CH4,NH3,H2O,H2
Term
carbon dating
Definition

Carbon-14

 

half-life: 5730 years

 

daughter nuclide : Nitrogen -14

Term
four theory of origin of life
Definition

1. special creation

2.spontaneos generation

3.ponspermia

4.chemical evolution

Term
the eccentral element for life
Definition

C,N,O,H

 

why. stable configuration, tightest bonds

Term
miller's experiments with reducing atmosphere 's products
Definition

HCN- hydrogen cyanide

 

HCOH- formaldehyde

 

those subsequently produce

amino acid

purine

ribose

Term
polymerzation achived by
Definition

evaporation

freezing

adsorbtion on clays

Term
apperance of boundary
Definition

fox's protenoid microspheres

 

lipid membranes

 

mineral membranes in hydrothermal vents

Term
two types of vent
Definition

black smoke -- those are hi temp , short lived, and just discovered

 

whtie smokes- those are lower temp, long lived, further away from mid-ocean ridge

Term
serpentization
Definition
mantle rock meets ocean water form mineral serpentine, relases heat. those also produce H2 and Co2 and methane --(Ch4)
Term
vent characterics
Definition

they reduce Co2 to organic matter

they produce Fe,Mn,Ni,s (first catalysts)

they are long living

they have micropores which allows RNA cumunaltion

 

Term
significance of metal ion
Definition
scavenge oxidizing molecules, pre adpatation to photosynthesis
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