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____ - function, internal transport of gases, nutrients and waste
Cardoivascular/circulatory system
Arthropods have an ____.
open circulatory system.
Only ____ animals have a circulatory system.
coelomate
____ - diffusion through the fluid w/in the ____.
Pseudocoelomate
pseudocoelom
Typically other "animals" move fluid by ____.
diffusion
____ - combination of blood and interstitial fluid that is created in the open circulatory system
Hemolymph
muscles provides pressure to get the blood back to the heart
Hemolymph
____ - blood receivers
____ - blood pumpers
Atria
Ventricle
Only one ventricle, so lots of mixing of the bloods, sometimes sending out deoxygenated blood to the body
amphibians
____ = lungs (to or back)
____ = body systems
Pulmonary
Systemic
Only 1 atria and 1 ventricle = 2 chambered heart (due have a chamber before and after these so sometimes called "4 chambers" but not really these are not atria/ventricles)
Fish
High pressure to cap in gills, very low pressure here then throughout the body w/ low pressure
Single Circulation
First case of double circulation (2 circles)
Amphibian
Septum is not entirely separating ventricles, so still have some mixing
Reptiles
Finally completely divided!, almost can think of this as 2 different organs
Birds, Mammals, crocodilans
____ can expand and contract due to muscles- can increase/decrease blood pressure
Arteries
____ supply the heart itself
Coronary arteries
Can correct the valves, or bypass the vein
varicose veins
Every cell has to come in contact w/ a ____
capillary
____ = responsible for recycling red blood cells
Liver
_____ - blood clots in 9 seconds versus 2-3 minutes for a standard chicken
fighting chicken
140/90 or above = ____
high blood pressure
____ = clogged artery in the brain
Stroke
____- Accumulation of cholesterol beneath inner lining of arteries, called plaque, interferes w/ flow of blood.

Both genetic and environmental causes
atherosclerosis
Approx 70% of cholesterol is carries as ____
LDL
____ - clogged vessels are opened by inflating a balloon, and/or inserting an expandable metal stent.
Angioplasty
____ = "men" composed of filament and anther
____ = stalk
Stamen
Filament
____ - has style supporting the stigma
____ = sticky
Carpel
Stigma
Most flowers have both ____ and ____ parts on them, some have only ____ or ____, so a whole "____ tree"
male
female
male
female
male
____ is the only diploid part of the alternation of generation
Sporophyte
w/in all plants there is this alternation, but as you go through the "evolution" of plants the _____ becomes more and more dominant
sporophyte
_____ produces spores (haploid)
Sporophyte
____ produces gametes (haploid)
Gametophyte
Sporophyte goes through meiosis and produces _____
Female = ____
Male = ____
haploid spores
ovule = spore
pollen mother cell = spore
The spores grow up/mature to be ____!!
gametophytes
____ and ____ gametophytes require water to travel through
Ferns
moss
Fruits develop from the ____, serves to house and disperse seeds
ovary
Ovule becomes an ____ (hidden in ovary of the flower) = gametophyte
Pollen mother cell grows up/matures to become a ____ = gametophyte
embryo sac
pollen grain
Embryo sac produces an ____ (haploid gamete)
Pollen grain produces a ____ (haploid gamete)
These haploid gametes fertilize and form a ____.
egg
sperm
diploid sporophyte
____ - (apical-basal polarity, how the plant knows whats "up")

Stimulates cell enlargement, and responses to light and gravity
Auxins
Plants respond to their environment = ____
behavior
____ - cell division (in roots primarily)
Cytokinins
____ - A gas, ripening of fruit
(Also helps with leaf fall, abscission)
Ethylene
____ - breaking dormancy
Gibberellins
____ - like the opposite of gibberellins. Promotes bud and fruit dormancy
Abscisic Acid (ABA)
_____ (opposite of ethylene)
Inhibit leaf abscission
Deficient in brassinosteroids suffer from dwarfism
Brassinosteroids
____ - caused by auxin movement away from light
Phototropism
____ = can be woken up easily
Dormant
Bears don’t hibernate, simply ____
dormant
Amount of daylight is "measured" by the ____ - actually measuring the hours of ____
pigment
darkness
- Short day plants (need long nights)
Long day plants (need short nights)
Day-neutral plant
Photoperiodism
____- response to contact w/ solid object
Thigmotropism
____ - response to gravity
Gravitropism
____ - need a certain range of temperature, so do not get denatured
Enzymes
Endo = ____
Ecto = ____
Homeo ("warm-blooded")
Hetero ("cold blooded")
____ maintain a fairly constant body temperature.
Homeotherms
Homeostasis relates best to which characteristic of life?
____
Interact with and respond to environment.
At rest most of the heat created by metabolism comes from the ____.
abdominal and thoracic organs.
Elephant fanning ears (help cool down) = ____
behavioral thermoregulation (to release heat)
Bat flying - large surface area to release heat, ____
physiological thermoregulation (don’t really have a choice)
Camels face the sun, so smallest surface area possible facing the sun.
Commorant birds in the morning spread their wings to capture as much sun as possible
behavioral thermoregulation
Gills other place of ____ - oxygen exchange!
countercurrent exchange
Here arteries and veins in opposite directions - they exchange heat from hot arteries to cold veins
countercurrent heat exchange
Can shunt more blood to surface or to the center to control heat loss.
marine flippers
On a warm day the blood vessels dilate
skin
____ - mucus - heat conserving
Amphibians
Urinate ____ on hot days - versus an average day. Water is a temp ____.
less
moderator
____ - draws water to it
"salt sucks"
Compare 2 environments - which has ____ salt and which way salt _____.
more/less
moves
Cell put in ____ - water will move into the cell to equalize solute concentrations and will then swell/burst the cell
hypotonic
____ is the diffusion of water (across some sort of semi permeable membrane)
Osmosis
Remember ____ does not move across the semi-permeable membrane.
solute
Hypotonic (hypoosmotic) - ____
less solute
Hypertonic (hyperosmotic)- ____
more solute
Isotonic - ____
same solute
Water always move ____ of a ____ environment.
Out
hypOtonic
Once ____ - water is still moving, but equally in both directions
isotonic
____ = similar to "cold blooded"/ectotherm
Osmoconformers
____ have a longer loop of Henle
Terrestrial mammals
Alcohol directly acts on ____
Caffeine also does, but not as drastically.
ADH production
Inhibits ADH Production
Secondary circulatory system - the ____ collects fluid and cells and returns them to the cardiovascular system
lymphatic system
____: ventricles is partially divided - reduces mixing of oxygenated and unoxygenated blood in the ventricle
Most reptiles
Only ____ animals have a circulatory system.
coelomate
____ - stems, leaves, flowers, support, above ground, photosynthesis, reproduction
Shoots
____ - anchor, absorb nutrients, store food
Roots
____ - enclose and protect flower bud
Sepals
____ - advertise flower to pollinators
Petals
____ - is a filament (stalk) with an anther on top
Stamen
____ - produces pollen through meiosis
Anther
____ - long style (neck) with stigma (pollen landing) on top and ovary chamber at bottom
Carpel
____ = small molecules that serve as chemical signals
Plant hormones
____ - the "plant stress hormone"
Abscisic Acid (ABA)
Photoperiodism is controlled by the plant pigment ____
phytochrome
____ - has a fundamental influence on biochemistry and physiology in animals, affecting the rate of reaction and the characteristics of molecules
Temperature
Countercurrent heat exchange is a type of ____.
physiological thermoregulation
____ - shivering (muscle contraction), brown fat
Homeotherms can produce heat
____ - balancing the uptake and loss of water and solutes
Osmoregulation
If body fluids have a solute concentration that is different from that of the _____, must use ____ to regulate water loss or gain
environment
energy
____- maintain their body fluids at different solute concentration from surrounding environment
Osmoregulators
____ - get rid or waste in a shelled egg
Uric acid
____ - forms and excreted nitrogenous wastes in urine
Excretory system
____ = toxic, most aquatic animals
____ = much less toxic, produced in liver, very water soluble; mammals amphibians a few fish
____ - also less toxic, but crystalline
Ammonia
Urea
Uric Acid
____ - kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra, associated blood vessels
Urinary system
Promotes dormancy?
Abscissic acid
Two species differ more from noticeably from one another when they are sympatric?
Character displacement
The greatest amount of nutrient absorption takes place in the?
Jejunum
Haploid generation in plants?
Gametophyte
only diploid part of plant is the
sporophyte
Sequence of levels-
Organism
population
community
ecosystem
biosphere
Survivorship curve - ____ = most are surviving early years
type 1