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| The study of the interactions between organisms and the environment. |
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| A community of organisms and physical factors with which they interact. |
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| What is the foundation of all ecology, evolution, and conservation? |
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| What are three approaches used to address ecological questions? |
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| Descriptive observations, rigorous experimental science, and mathematical and computer modeling. |
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| What does ecology provide? |
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| Scientific understanding that underlies environmental issues. |
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| What do ecologists make a distinction between? |
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| Who started the modern environmental movement? What did she publish? |
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| Rachel Carson. Silent Spring. |
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| A mosaic of connected ecosystems. |
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| What does the term "global" mean in reference to ecology? |
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| Influence of energy and materials on ecology around the world. |
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| What are ecology's biggest questions? |
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| What determines the distribution of species and what determines the abundance of individuals in a given population? |
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| What are the two factors that affect the ranges and abundance in ecology? |
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| Biotic factors and abiotic factors. |
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| What are non-living factors? |
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| Movement of individuals away from centers of high population density or from their area of origin. |
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| What does dispersal contribute to? |
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| Global distribution of organisms. |
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| What might limit species distribution? |
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| Habitat selection behavior. |
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| What are three biotic factors that affect the distribution of organisms? |
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| Interactions with other species, predation, and competition. |
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| What are five abiotic factors that affect the distribution of organisms? |
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| Temperature, water, sunlight, wind, rocks and soil. |
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| How do most abiotic factors vary? |
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| What are four major components of climate? |
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| Temperature, water, sunlight, and wind. |
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| What constitutes climate? |
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| The long-term prevailing weather conditions in an area. |
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| What consists of patterns on the global regional, and local level? |
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| What consists of very fine patterns, such as those encountered by the community of organisms underneath a fallen log? |
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| What largely determines global climate patterns? |
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| Solar energy and the planet's movement in space. |
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| What plays a major part in determining the Earth's climate patterns? |
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| What What contributes to local variations in climate? |
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| Proximity to water and topographic features along with seasonal variation. |
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| Why is the eastern slope of the Rockies more dry than the western slope? |
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| What accounts for the largest part of the biosphere in terms of area? |
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| What type of symmetry and development do bilaterian animals have? |
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| Bilateral and tripoblastic. |
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| What clade contains lephotrochozoans, ecdysozoa, and deuterostomia? |
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| How as the lophotrochozoa clade first identified? |
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| Crown of ciliated tentacles that function in feeding. |
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| What does includes flatworms, rotifers, ectoprocts, brachiopods, molluscs and annelids? |
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| Are roundworms in the lophotrochozoa clade? |
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| Where do members of phylum platyhelminthes live? |
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| Marine, freshwater, and damp terrestrial habitats. |
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| Although flatworms undergo tripoblastic development, what are they? |
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| How are flatworms flattened? |
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| Where does gas exchange take place in flatworms? |
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| What regulates the osmotic balance of flatworms? |
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| What are the best known turbellarians commonly called? |
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| What have light-sensative eyespots? |
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| What has a more complex and centralized nervous system compared to the nerve nets of cnidarians? |
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| How do planarians reproduce? |
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| Sexually or asexually through fission. They are hermaphrodites. |
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| What phylum includes snails, slugs, oysters, clams, octopuses and squids? |
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| Where are molluscs found? |
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| Mostly marine. Some freshwater and terrestrial however. |
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| Are molluscs soft or hard-bodied? |
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| Soft-bodied but most have shells. |
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| Where are gonads located in molluscs? |
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| What is the ciliated larval stage in many molluscs called? |
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| What are the three main parts of molluscs? |
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| Muscular foot, visceral mass, mantle. |
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| How do many molluscs feed? |
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| Multicellular, heterotrophic eukaryotes with tissues that develop from embryonic layers. |
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| What is specific about the way animals feed? |
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| Heterophs that ingest their food. |
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| What is a difference between animals and plants? |
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| How are animal bodies held together? |
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| Proteins such as collagen. |
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| What is unique to animals? |
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| Nervous tissue and muscle tissue. |
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| How do most animals reproduce? |
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| In what order does animal development occur? |
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| Zygote, blastula, gastrula. |
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| When did the common ancestor of living animals may have lived? |
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| 675-875 million years ago. |
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| What is the closest living relatives of animals? |
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| Choanoflagellates- a type of protist. |
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| What era was 1bya-542mya? |
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| In what era did the Cambrian explosion occur? |
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| What are two explanations regarding the cause of the Cambrian explosion? |
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| New predator-prey relationships. A rise in atmospheric oxygen. |
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| In what era did coral reefs emerge? |
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| In what era did dinosaurs the dominant terrestrial vertebrates? |
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| In what era did the first mammals emerge? |
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| What era was 251-65.5mya? |
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| What era followed mass extinctions of both terrestrial and marine animals? |
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| What era are we currently in? |
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| When did modern mammal orders and insects diversify? |
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| What are collections of specialized cells isolated from other collections by membranous layers? |
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| How many germ layers give rise to the tissues and organs of the animal embryo? |
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| What is the germ layer covering the embryo's surface? |
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| What is the innermost germ layer and lines the developing digestive tube? |
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| What is the developing digestive tube called? |
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| What are the three layers that tripoblastic animals have? |
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| Ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm. |
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| About how many animal phyla are there? |
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| What are the two phylogenetic hypotheses currently debated? |
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| Animal phylogeny is based mainly on morphological and developmental comparisons. Animal phylogeny is based mainly on molecular data. |
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| What are animals that lack a backbone? |
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| What percentage of animals species are invertebrates? |
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| What are sedentary animals from the phyla calcarea and silicea? |
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| Both fresh water and marine waters. |
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| What animals lack true tissues and organs? |
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| Suspension- capture food particles suspended in the water that pass through their body. |
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| What are flagellated collar cells that generate a water current through the sponge and ingest suspended food? |
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| What is the cavity in sponges that water is drawn into? |
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| What is the opening in sponges that water is drawn out through? |
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| Where are amoebocytes found in sponges? |
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| How do most sponges reproduce? |
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| Sexually. Hermaphroditic. |
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| What clade of animals have true tissues? |
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| What phylum contains jellies, corals, and hydras? |
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| Are cnidarians dipoblastic or tripoblastic? |
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| What is the basic body plan of a cnidarian? |
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| Sac with a central digestive compartment (gastrovascular cavity). |
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| What does the opening of cnidarians function as? |
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| What are the two variations on the body plan of cnidarians? |
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| Sessile polyp and motile medusa. |
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| What do cnadarians have that sponges lack? |
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| Tentacles armed with cnidocytes. |
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| What are specialized organelles within cnidocytes that eject a stinging thread? |
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| What animals have bilateral symmeterery and tripoblastic development? |
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| What clade contains lephotrochozoans, ecdysozoa, and deuterostomia? |
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| How was the clade Lophotrochozoa identified? |
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| What is a crown of ciliated tentacles that function in feeding? |
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| What clade includes the flatworms, rotifers, ectoprocts, brachiopods, molluscs, and annelids? |
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| Which of the common types of worms is not a part of the Lophotrochozoa clade? |
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| Where do members of phylum Platyhelminthes live? |
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| Marine, freshwater, and damp terrestrial habitats. |
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| How are Platyhelminthes flattened? |
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| Where does gas exchange occur in Platyhelminthes? |
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| What regulate the osmotic balance of Platyhelminthes? |
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| What are the best known turbellarians commonly called? |
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| Where are nearly all turbellarians found? |
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| Free living and mostly marine. |
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| How do planarians reproduce? |
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| Sexually (hermaphrodites), or asexually through fission. |
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| About how much of living species of molluscs are gastropods? |
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| What type of molluscs have a single, spiraled shell? |
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| What kind of gastropods lack a shell or have a reduced shell? |
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| What is the distinctive characteristic of gastropods that causes the animal's anus and mantle to end up above its head? |
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| What do the roots of the word "Cephalopod" mean? |
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| What does the class Cephalopoda include? |
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| What three features are typical of Cephalopods? |
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| Closed circulatory system, well-developed sense organs, and a complex brain. |
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| How are the bodies of annelids composed? |
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| What are the tree classes of the phylum Annelida? |
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| Oligochaeta, Polychaeta, and Hirudinea. |
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| Why do cuttlefish change their colors and patterns? |
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| Camoflage, attract mates, and confuse prey. |
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| What consists of 8 phyla that contain more species than all other animal, protist, fungus and plant groups combined? |
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| What is the process in which the cuticle of Ecdysozoans is shed or molted? |
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| What are the two largest phyla of ecdysozoans? |
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| Nematoeds and arthropods. |
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| How do nematodes usually reproduce? |
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| Sexual, by internal fertilization. |
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| What does the body plan of an arthropod consist of? |
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| A segmented body, hard exoskeleton, and jointed appendages. |
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| When do arthropods date to? |
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| What characterizes arthropod evolution? |
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| A decrease in the number of segments and an increase in appendage specialization. |
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| What is the center section of arthropods called? |
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| What is the tail section of arthropods called? |
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| What is the body of an arthropod completely covered by? |
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| Cuticle- an exoskeleton made of layers of protein and the polysaccharide chitin. |
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| What occurs when an arthropod grows? |
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| It molts its exoskeleton. |
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| What circulatory system do arthropods have? |
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| What is the fluid called that is circulated into the spaces surrounding the tissues and organs of an arthropod? |
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| What special organs have evolved in arthropods? |
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| How many species of vertebrates are there? |
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| Vertebrates are a subphylum within what phylum? |
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| What clade do chordates belong to? |
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| What do all chordates share? |
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| A set of derived characters. |
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| What are the four key characters of chordates? |
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| Notochord. Dorsal, hollow nerve chord. Pharyngeal slits or clefts. Muscular, post-anal tail. |
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| What is the purpose of the notochord? |
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| Skeletal support throughout most of the length of a chordate. |
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| What shape are Lancelets? |
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| What are marine suspension feeders that retain characteristics of the chordate body plan as adults? |
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| What did the origin of a head open up for chordates? |
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| A new way of feeding: active predation. |
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| What are four characteristics that Craniates share? |
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| Skull, brain, eyes, and other sensory organs. |
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| What is a feature unique to Craniates? |
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| Neural crest- a collection of cells near the dorsal margins of the closing neural tube in an embryo. |
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| What do neural crest cells give rise to? |
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| A variety of structures including some of the bones and cartilage of the skull. |
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| What distinguishes Craniates from other chordates? |
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| What are the least derived surviving craniate lineage? |
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| When did a lineage of craniates evolve into vertebrates? |
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| What are three derived characters vertebrates have? |
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| Vertebrae enclosing a spinal cord. An elaborate skull. Fin rays, in the aquatic forms. |
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| What is the oldest living lineage of vertebrates? |
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| What are jawless vertebrates inhabiting various marine and freshwater habitats? |
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| What are jawed vertebrates? |
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| Are there more jawed vertebrates or jawless vertebrates? |
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| Where might have jaws evolved from? |
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| Skeletal supports of the pharyngeal slits. |
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| What have a skeleton composed primarily of cartilage? |
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| Chondrichthyans. (Sharks, rays) |
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| What are four characteristics of most sharks? |
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| Streamlined body/swift swimmers. Carnivores. Short digestive tract; a ridge called a spiral valve increases the digestive surface area. Acute senses. |
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| What clade includes the bony fish and tetrapods? |
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| What does nearly all living osteichthyans have? |
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| What are aquatic osteichthyans informally called? |
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| What class includes the ray-finned fishes? |
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| What are characteristics of lobe finned fishes? |
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| Muscular pelvic and pectoral fins. |
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| What are three lineages of Sarcopterygii (Lobe-fins)? |
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| Coelacanthes, lungfishes, and tetrapods. |
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| What subphylum has more species than all other forms of life combined? |
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| Hexapoda- insects and relatives. |
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| When did insect and plant diversity decline? |
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| Cretaceous extinction. They have been increasing in the 65 million years since! |
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| What is one key to the great success of insects? |
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| What do many insects undergo during their development? |
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| In what do the young (nymphs) resemble adults but are smaller and go through a series of molts until they reach full size? |
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| Incomplete metamorphosis. |
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| In what do insects have larval stages known by such names as maggot, grub, or caterpillar? |
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| What is a distinct feature of complete metamorphosis? |
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| The larval stage looks entirely different from the adult stage. |
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| How do most insects reproduce? |
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| Sexually. Separate male and female. |
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| What are three ways individual insects find and recognize members of their own species? |
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| Bright colors, sound, or odors. |
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| What are two shared characteristics that define deuterostomes? |
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| Radial cleavage and formation of the mouth at the end of the embryo opposite the blastophore. |
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| What is an example of Echinoderms? |
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| What is unique about echinoderms? |
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| They have a water vascular system that function in locomotion, feeding, and gas exchange. |
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| How do echinoderms reproduce? |
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| Sexually- external reproduction. |
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| What are two specific adaptations found in tetrapods? |
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| 4 limbs and feet with digits. Ears for detecting airborne sounds. |
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| What does amphibian mean? |
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| Why do most amphibians have moist skin? |
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| It complements the lungs in gas exchange. |
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| Where does fertilization occur in most amphibians? |
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| What are a group of tetrapods whose living members are reptiles, including birds, and mammals? |
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| What are amniotes named for? |
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| The major derived character of the clade- the amniotic egg. |
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| What are the four extraembryonic membranes of the amniotic egg? |
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| Amnion, chorion, yolk sac, and allantois. |
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| What are two terrestrial adaptations of amniotes? |
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| Relatively impermeable skin and the ability to use the rib cage to ventilate the lungs. |
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| Birds are most closely related to what other group of reptiles? |
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| What clade includes the tuataras, lizards, snakes, turtles, crocodilians, birds, and the extinct dinosaurs? |
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| Are most reptiles ectothermic or endothermic? |
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| What is an example of reptiles that are endothermic? |
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| What forced the change of almost every feature of birds' reptilian anatomy? |
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| What are five adaptations of birds for flight? |
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| Wings with keratin feathers, lack of a urinary bladder, females with only one ovary, small gonads, and loss of teeth. |
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| What are four characteristics of mammals? |
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| Mammary glands, hair, larger brain, differentiated teeth. |
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| What is a major characteristic that distinguishes mammals from reptiles? |
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| What are the three living lineages of mammals? |
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| Monotremes, marsupials, and eutherians. |
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| What is a small group of egg laying mammals consisting of echindnas and the platypus? |
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| What includes opossums, kangaroos, and koalas? |
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| What is the name of the maternal pouch in marsupials? |
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| What is a distinguishing feature of eutherian pregnancy compared to marsupials? |
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| Longer period of pregnancy. |
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| Where did the first monkeys evolve? |
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| The old world (Africa and Asia). |
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| Where did apes diverge from? |
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| What are six characteristics that distinguish humans from other apes? |
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| Upright posture and bipedal locomotion. Larger brains. Language capabilities and symbolic thought. Manufacture and use of complex though. Shortened jaw. Shorter digestive tract. |
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| How do elephants stay cool in the heat? |
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| Radiating heat from their ears. |
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| What is the study of the biological form of an organism? |
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| What is the study of the biological function of an organism? |
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| What affect the way an animal interacts with its environment? |
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| What determines animal body plans? |
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| The ability to perform certain actions depends on what three things? |
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| Shape, size, and environment. |
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| What reflects different species' adaptations to a similar environmental challenge? |
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| Evolutionary convergence. |
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| What impose constraints on animal size and shape? |
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| What directly affect how an animal exchanges energy and materials with its surroundings? |
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| What type of organisms have a high surface to volume ratio? |
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| How do more complex organisms increase their amount of internal surfaces for exchanging materials? |
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| Making them highly folded. |
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| What makes up an organ system? |
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| What are relatively slow acting but can have long-lasting effects? |
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| What transmits information between specific locations? |
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| Does information conveyed depend on a signal's pathway or the type of signal? |
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| Which system plays more of a part in escaping from a lion? (Endocrine or nervous) |
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| What are two ways animals manage their internal environment? |
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| Regulating or conforming to the external environment. |
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| What do organisms use to maintain a "steady state" or internal balance regardless of external environment? |
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| What maintains the dynamic equilibrium of homeostasis? |
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| Negative feedback helps to return a variable to what? |
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| A normal range or a set point. |
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| Most homeostatic control systems function by what? |
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| Negative feedback- buildup of the end product shuts the system off. |
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| What type of loops occur in animals but do not usually contribute to homeostasis? |
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| What is the process called when homeostasis adjusts to changes in external environment? |
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| True or False: All endotherms are homeotherms and all ectotherms are poikilotherms. |
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| What is the process by which animals maintain internal temperature within a tolerable range? |
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| How do endothermic animals generate heat? |
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| How do ectothermic animals gain heat? |
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| Do ectotherms or endotherms tolerate greater variation in internal temperature? |
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| Are ectotherms or endotherms active at a greater range of external temperatures? |
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| Is ectothermy or endothermy more energetically expensive? |
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| The body temperature of a what varies with its environment? |
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| The body temperature of a what remains relatively constant? |
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| What are the four physical processes by which organisms exchange heat? |
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| Conduction, convection, radiation, and evaporation. |
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| What does heat regulation in mammals often involve? |
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| The integumentary system- skin, hair, and nails. |
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| What are five general adaptations that help animals thermoregulate? |
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| Insulation. Circularory adaptations. Cooling by evaporative heat loss. Behavioral responses. Adjusting metabolic heat production. |
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| What significantly affects thermoregulation? |
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| Regulation of blood flow near the body surface. |
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| When does blood flow in the skin increase, facilitating heat loss? |
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| When does blood flow in the skin decrease lowering heat loss? |
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| How does countercurrent heat exchange work? |
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| Heat is transferred between fluids flowing in opposite directions. |
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| Why are countercurrent heat exchangers important? |
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| Changing posture to minimize or maximize absorption of solar heat is an example of what? |
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| What is moving or shivering an example of? |
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| Adjusting metabolic heat production. |
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| Changing insulation to deal with seasonal temperature changes is an example of what? |
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| What part of the brain controls thermoregulation? |
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| What is fever the result of? |
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| Change to the "set point" for a biological thermostat. |
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| What is the overall flow and transformation of energy in an animal? |
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| What three aspects is bioenergetics related to? |
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| Size, activity, and environment. |
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| What powers cellular work? |
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| What are extra food molecules used for? |
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| What does biosynthesis include? (Three things) |
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| Body growth and repair, synthesis of storage material (fat), and production of gametes. |
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| What is the amount of energy an animal uses in a unit of time? |
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| What is one way to measure metabolic rate? |
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| Determine the amount of oxygen consumed or carbon dioxide produced. |
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| Do ectotherms or endotherms have lower metabolic rates? |
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| How is metabolic rate per gram related to body size? |
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| It is inversely proportional. |
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| The use of energy is partitioned to what five groups? |
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| BMR (or SMR), activity, thermoregulation, growth, and reproduction. |
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