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Zoology Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The element that forms the basic skeleton for all organic molecules | carbon |
| The term hydrocarbon refers to molecules composed of | hydrogen and carbon |
| The monomers that make up proteins are called | amino acid |
| Which of the following is one of the 4 types of macromolecules that characterize living things? lipid, nucleic acid, hormone, protein, carbohydrate | nucleic acid |
| Emergence refers to | the appearance of new characters at high levels of organization |
| Metabolism refers to | all of the chemical reactions in the cell |
| The First Law of Thermodynamics states that | energy cannot be created or destroyed |
| Organisms that are not capable of synthesizing their own food are called | heterotrophs |
| Evolution seeks to find | ultimate causes |
| The theory that predicts that all cells come from pre-existing cells is called | cell theory |
| Cells where the DNA is in a membrane bound compartment are called ____ cells | eukaryotic |
| The main structural component of membranes is: | phospholipid |
| The type of molecule most responsible for membrane function is | protein |
| Ribosomes are made in the | nucleolus |
| Rough ER is associated with | protein synthesis |
| Most of the ATP in a eukaryotic cell is made in the | mitochondria |
| Microtubules are composed of the protein | tubulin |
| Microvilli are | small projections of the cell surface |
| The type of junctional complex acts to seal one part of a plasma membrane from another part is called a _____ junction | tight |
| Osmosis is the diffusion of water across | a selectively permeable membrane |
| The sodium potassium ATPase is an example of | active transport |
| The three phases of interphase are called | G1, S, and G2 |
| A protein associated with the regulation of the cell cycle is | cyclin |
| Programmed cell death is called | Apoptosis |
| The unifying theory of biology is | evolution |
| A theory is | a scientific explanation |
| Theories are scientific because | they have empirical content |
| A good theory is | a theory that explains a lot with a few sentences |
| A process that generates random evolutionary changes is called | genetic drift |
| In biology, fitness is measured as | reproductive output |
| The type of natural selection where individuals with the average phenotype leave the most offspring is called | Stabilizing selection |
| The biological term for the "place" where an organism lives is | niche |
| Creation of an offspring via the fusion of an egg and a sperm is called | sexual reproduction |
| The development of an individual from an unfertilized egg is called | parthenogenesis |
| There are _______ pairs of chromosomes in a human cell | 23 |
| In meiosis, one cell divides ___ times to produce ____ daughter cells | 2,4 |
| During the development of the human female gamete, meiosis is arrested (stops) at which phase during early embryonic development of the ovaries | prophase |
| Another name for a bivalent is | dyad |
| Your instructor, Dr. Hamilton, got how many Y chromosomes from his mother | 0 |
| Your instructor's wife, Dr. Pryor, got how many X chromosomes from her mother | 1 |
| Male gonads are called | testes |
| Female gonads are called | ovaries |
| The three kinds of sex hormones | androgens, estrogens, and progesterones |
| Epigenesis is the theory of development that suggests that | the fertilized egg contains only the building blocks for development, and the offspring are newly constructed during development |
| In development, cleavage refers to | the subdivision, but not the growth, of the blastula by mitosis |
| Which type of eggs have the most yolk | holoblastic |
| In deuterostomes, we find | radial cleavage and the blastopore becomes the anus |
| Mosaic Theory suggested that | cells start out with no genes, and genes are made to suit the needs of each individual cell during development |
| Hilde Mangold grafted tissue from the dorsal lip of the blastopore to the ventral side of the blastopore, and demonstrated the principle of | induction |
| A pseudocoelomate will have | mesodermal tissue lining one side of the blastocoel only |
| Differences between lophotrochozoan and ecdysozoan protostome include the fact(s) that | ecdysozoans have a cuticular exoskeleton, lophotrochozoans do not |
| Parthenogenetic animals produce | diploid gametes that develop into females |
| The lophophore is used for | filter feeding |
| Which part of a mollusk body secretes the shell | mantle |
| A radula in a mollusk is like a | tongue |
| Serial homology among body parts is found in | segmented animals |
| Eutely is | animal bodies having a set number of cells |
| 25% of people in the southeastern US are infected with which parasitic roundworm, according to our textbook | Ascaris Lumbricoides |
| Humans get hookworms by | through the skin when it comes in contact with soil containing juvenile hookworms |
| The word arthropod refers to what arthropod appendages | jointed appendages |
| Tagmosis refers to | fusion of segment |
| The most abundant animals in the world are | remipedia |
| Which mineral is found in large amounts in the cuticle of marine crustaceans | calcium |
| Biramous refers to | having two parts to appendages |
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