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| The study of animal function |
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| refers to the components of actual. living animals and the interactions among those components that enable the animals to perform as they do. |
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| the increase in the frequency of genes that produce phenotypes that raise the likelihood that animals will survive and reproduce. |
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| a physiological mechanism or other trait that is a product of evolution by natural selection |
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| Why the trait is an asset |
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| the synthetic study of the function of all animals |
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| the study of how animals respond physiologically to environmental conditions and challenges. |
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| conditions experienced within an animals bady |
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| Conditions outside the body |
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| When and animal lets it's internal conditions and external conditions be equal |
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| When and animal shows constancy with is internal conditions when it external conditions are variable |
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| an important concept regarding the nature and significance of internal constancy |
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| Short term changes in physiology of individual animals: changes that individuals exhibit right after their environments have changed; acute changes are reversible |
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| Long ter changes int he physiology of individual animals: changes that individuals display after they have been in new environments for days, weeks, or months; chronic changes are reversible |
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| Changes that occur by alteration of gene frequencies over the course of many generations in populations exposed to new environments |
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| Changes in the physiology of individual animals that occur in a programmed way as the animals mature from conception to adulthood and then to senescence |
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| Changes controlled by periodic biological cloacks |
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| Changes int he physiology of individual animals that occur in repeating patterns inder control of the animals internal biological clocks |
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Acclimation
Acclimatiization |
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is a laboratory phenomenon
is a chronic response to a changed natural environment |
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| the ability of an individual animal to express two or more genetically controlled phenotypes |
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| the progression of life stages from conception to senescence in an individual |
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| Determining size within an animals type |
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| measure of intensity of the random motions that the atoms and molecules in the material undergo |
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| all the chemical, physical, and biotic components of an organism's surroundings |
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| the transition layer where temperature changes rapidly with depth |
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| Place within an environment that potentially differ from the environment at large in their physical or chemical conditions |
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| The set of climatic conditions prevailing inthe subpart of a system |
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| change of gene frequencies over time in a population of organisms |
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| something that gives an animal less of a chance at survival |
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| process in which chance assumes a preeminent role in altering gene frequencies |
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| the contorl be an allele tof a single gene of two or more distinct and seemingly unrelated traits |
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| seeks to identify adaptive traits by comparing how a particular function is carried out by related and unrelated species. |
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| individuals that lack functional copies of genes of interest |
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| a progressive change in allele frequencies or gene-controlled phenotypic frequencies along an envoronmental gradient |
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