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Zoology

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mammals: marking and defending their territory.   Territoriality  
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fertilization occurs immediately after population, arrested after 1st week or 2nd.   Embryonic diapause  
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know bone parts.   Skeleton  
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helps regulate heat loss from exposed areas.   Countercurrent heat exchange  
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can store sperm for up to 2 months.   Delayed fertilization  
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1-7 = cervical 1-12 = thoracic 1-5 = lumbar sacrum - coccyx   Vertebral regions  
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females undergo when behavioral & physical siseptive to mate.   Estrus cycle  
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length of time it takes the young to develop inside female. 20 days - 19 months.   Gestation period  
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Deoxygenated blood from VENA CAVA.SUPERIOR VENA CAVA:head & arms. Interior:lower body. SUPERIOR:goes to RIGHT ATRIUM. TRICUSPID VALVE to RIGHT VENTRICLE out PULMONARY VALVE to LUNGS to LEFT ATRIUM.MITRIL VALVE in LEFT VENTRICLE out AORTIC VALVE to AORTA.   Circulatory pathway  
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gap in teeth.   Diastema  
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scent glands.   Musk  
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different teeth.   Heterodont  
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Keratin, protein.   Claws Made of? Macromolecule?  
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human: 2*1*2*3 Beavers: 1*0*1*3   Dental Formula  
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sweat, salt & water.   Sudoriferous  
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hard & soft. Breath while we eat.   Secondary palate advantage  
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hair   Pelage  
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Insizers, canines, pre-molars, molars.   4 kinds of teeth  
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oil   Sebaceous  
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female mammals, means milk.   Mammary  
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warm-blooded, hair, live birth.   3 traits of mammals  
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(Ex. Brown Headed cow bird) Sympatric speciation. Makes other species take care of eggs.   Brood parasites  
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Eyes detect UV Rays or cloudy day.   Sun Compass  
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Birds   Class Aves  
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Birds pickup ants and rubs on feathers, because they have (formic acid) that is deadly to mites.   Anting  
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Hollow not completely.   Humerus structure of birds  
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mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. Southern Hemisphere   breeding v. Wintering area  
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Their lively at hatching they are ready to go.   Precocial  
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wing & tail feathers Ex. flight feathers, tips of wings. Ex. contour feathers, base of flight feathers, streamlining.   Pennaceous feathers & examples  
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water bird   oil glands  
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In legs, help stay on branch while sleeping.   perching tendon  
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navigation for birds, for migration.   magnetic compass  
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helpless little baby, no feathers.   Altricial  
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thin, wispy like, warm feathers. Ex. down feathers.   Plumaceous feathers & example  
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First down feathers - regular feathers - post - juvenile molt- (tall) adult feathers. prenuctual feathers (breeding -post nuctual feathers.   Molting cycle  
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Wings: posterior(small point). anterior - (circle end).   Wings: anterior to posterior.  
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air rushes fast over.   Wings: upper surface  
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Increase lift.   Angle of attack  
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recovery stroke, cuts through air.   Upstroke: distal edge  
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Through esophagus to stomach. Proventriculus secretes gastric juices for digestion. Ventriculus is gizzard. To intestines to cloaca, where waste passes out.   Digestive pathway  
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one partner Ex. swans   Monogamous & example  
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air gets cupped. ventral/concaid, high pressure   Wings: lower surface  
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small feathers on front wings, direct air over back.   Alula  
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expands tail out to decend.   Tail movements  
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cycle one: inhale. air comes through bronches - abdominal sacs - start of lungs, (parabronchi) Exhale: through middle of lungs. Cycle two: inhale. end of parabronchi - inflates thoracic sacs. Exhale: out thoracic sacs.   Gas exchange cycles  
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multiple females, turkeys.   Polygynous & example  
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pushes up, caused by shape of wing.   Lift  
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powerstroke, cups air. wing tips cups down.   Downstroke: distal edge  
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gliding - cranes, stationary wings. flapping - cardinal, up & down. soaring - tilting, eagle. hovering: quick flaps frontward & back. humming bird.   4 flight patterns & examples  
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binocular: eyes on front of face. better depth perception. monocular: eyes on sides of face.   Binocular & monocular vision  
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multiple males, females are bigger. Spotted sandpiper.   Polyandrous & example  
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What is the vector (animal that transmits) African sleeping sickness?   Tsetse fly  
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Photosynthetic protozoan with flagella.   phytoflagellated  
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doesn't require oxygen   Aneorobic  
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outer layer of mollusk. Secretes shell material   Mantle  
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beef tapeworm - In human and cattle.   Taeniarhynchus saginatus  
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Repeating segments of a worms body. Adds below neck.   proglottid  
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It goes through snails. By skin contact.   How do people aquire blood flukes?  
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Undercooked fish   How do people acquire Chinese liver fluke?  
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sheep liver flukes   Fasciola hepatica  
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organism formed from budding   Zooid  
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Chordata   Human phylum  
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African sleeping sickness   Trypanosoma brucei  
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Type of Hydrogenosome   Trichomonas vaginalis  
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Excavata, Amoebozoa, Rhizaria, Chromalveolata   4 supergroups of Protozoa  
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bread fish tapeworm   Diphyllobothrium latum  
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hooks used to attach to the intestines   Scolex  
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blood flukes   Schistosomes  
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undercooked fish, affects liver   Clororchis sinesis  
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have one form   Monogenetic  
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aquatic predator worms, covered in cilia.   Turbellaria: Describe the animals found in this class  
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false foot   pseodopod  
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Heterotrophic protozoan with flagella   zooflagellated  
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causes giardia, Aneorobic.   giardia intestinalis  
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180 degree twist. Helps but head and feet next to each other.   Torsion  
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long flat worms, Proboscis   Example animal from phylum Nemertea  
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pork tapeworm   Taenia solium  
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All parasites, tapeworms   Class Cestoidea  
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snails, fish   What two animals are hosts of the Chinese liver fluke?  
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ectoparasitic fluke on fish.   Class Monogenea  
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Ectoderm, Endoderm, Mesoderm.   Three layers of a triblastic animal  
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Cycleophora - mouths of lobsters   Newest phylum? Lives where?  
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food & defense   Purpose of nematocyst  
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Two planes, Ex, humans   bilateral symmetry  
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K,P,C,O,F,G,S   Levels of scientific classification  
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Osmosis, state of tissue tone or tension.   Tonicity in which water moves into protist  
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mouth of protist   Cytopharynx  
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Ectoderm, Endoderm   2 layers of a diploblastic animal  
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Ex. of Apicomplexa, malaria   plasmodium  
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Ex. of Entamoebida - unsanitary crowded condition   Entamoeba histolytica causes this  
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Ex. of Apicomplexa. In cat feces.   Toxoplasma  
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the way we classify organisms.   Taxonomy  
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Eating water crest   How do people acquire sheep liver flukes?  
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Superior. 3 domains: Eubacteria, Asschaea, & Eukarya.   Domains in relation to kingdoms  
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small flat worms, bilateral symmetrical   Acoelomorpha: Describe the animals in this phylum  
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Inner layer of cytoplasm   Endoplasm  
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transports to mitochondria or Lysosomes   Food vacuole  
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splitting int. two   binary fission  
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Ameba, not symmetrical   Asymmetry  
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Phylum Ctenophora   Sea walnuts  
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Alternation of generations   2 body forms is called this  
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lid displaced upon discharge on a nematocyst.   Operculum  
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Plasmodium. Through mosquitos.   Transmits malaria  
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hairlike projections that move the cell   Cilia  
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How species have changed over time   phylogeny  
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outer layer, under plasma membrane   Pellicle  
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Takes in water. Entering through osmosis   Contractile vacuole  
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After food vacuole is used.   Egestion vacuole  
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Splits, but new protist is smaller   Budding  
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Jellyfish, vertical, one plane   Radial symmetry  
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Phylum Ctenophora   Comb jellies  
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A phylum that deals with reefs.   Cnidaria  
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F.R. Apicomplexa resists cloronation, affects AIDS patients.   Cryptosporidium  
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Reefs, Hydrozoa   freshwater Cnidarian  
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A phylum that deals with sponges   Porifera  
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mammalia   Human class  
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outer layer of cytoplasm   Ectoplasm  
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chitin   Exoskeleton material  
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specialized body region of arthropods.   Tagmata  
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swelling caused by Wucheria   Elephantiasis  
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caused by the pork worm   Trichinosis  
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skin contact. In southern U.S. through feet, between toes.   New World Hookworm transmittal & range  
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Pin worms. lower part of intestines. Ingesting feces.   Enterobius vermicularis  
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Round worms   Phylum Nematoda  
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Jet perpulsions   Cephalopoda movement  
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process from immature to adult. Caterpillar to butterfly.   metamorphosis  
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Carbohydrate. Polysaccharide.   Chitin macromolecule  
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Arthropoda   Spider phylum  
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Pinchers   Chelicerae  
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start in ocean, and come up at night   Krill migration  
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Lyme Disease & Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever   Diseases from ticks  
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Frame silk: outsides radial threads: spokes catching spiral: middle   Silk types in web  
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hard shell   Carapace  
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walking legs: for movement. Mouth: eats. Carapace: Hard shell. Genital operculum: lid covering. Gill operculum: covers the gills. Book gills: look like pages in book. Telson: tail.   Horseshoe crab diagram and parts  
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A way that spiders, scorpions, ticks, or mites get rid of wastes.   Malpighian tubules  
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eggs develop outside the body. Ex. spiders & turtles   Oviparous  
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Most common fossil   Trilobite  
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Animalia   Kingdom we're studying  
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9-13, the walking legs on crayfish   Pereopods  
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attaches the prosoma to opisthosoma. Usually spiders   pedicel  
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sticky, elastic, stronger than Kevlar, made of protein.   Properties of silk  
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directs where web goes   spinnerets  
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Lid that opens upon discharge of nematocyst.   Operculum  
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sensory receptors   Sensilla  
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Chelicerae: 1st pair. Pedipalps: 2nd pair. walking legs: walking. stinging tail: venom. median eye: towards middle. lateral eye: away from middle. sensilla: sensory receptors. Prosoma: Front. Opisthosoma: back. pre & post abdomen.   Scorpion diagram  
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Cephalothorax:head & thorax.Abdomen:stomach area.1st & 2nd Append:1st & 2nd antena.3rd append:mandables.4th & 5th:1st & 2nd Maxilla.Maxilliped:food hand. & sensory 6-8 Pereopods:9-13 for walking legs.Gills:where append. meets body.Thoracic appen:pinchers.   Shrimp diagram  
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(continued) Pleopods: Last append. except for last 2. Telson: tail area.   (conti) Shrimp diagram  
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Live birth, egg supplies nutrients for the body.   Ovoviparous  
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towards the front.   prosoma  
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2nd pair.   Pedipalps  
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Appendages except for last two.   Pleopods  
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Arachnida   Spider class  
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food handling & sensory - pairs 6-8   Maxillipeds  
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black widow - red hourglass. brown recluse - violin shape mark.   poisonous spiders in area & their markings  
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Eyes, Chelicarae, Pedipalps, prosoma, opisthosoma, pedicel,back lung slit, abdomen, spiracle, spinnerets   Spider diagram  
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live birth. mother provides nutrients. Ex. humans   Viviparous  
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female will release pheromones to attract a mate.   Horseshoe crab mating  
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dances front to back. male drops sperm sac then forces the female on it.   Scorpion mating  
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tail   Telson  
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Horseshoe crabs   Class Merostomata species  
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towards the back   Opisthosoma  
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last 2 appendages on tail. Ex. crayfish, shrimp.   Uropod  
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outer skeleton   Exoskeleton  
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horse hair worms, gordian   phylum nematomorpha  
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transported by mosquitos. causes Filariasis. In blood vessels. In lymphatic system causes elephantitus heartworms in dogs filarial worms.   Wucheria  
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Pork worm. uncooked pork. causes trichinosis   Trichinella spiralis  
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ingesting feces. lower part of intestines   Pinworm transmittal  
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roundworm of humans. ingesting feces. small intestines.   Ascaris lumbricoides  
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reproductive sac on worms   Clittelum  
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worms   Phylum Annelida  
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clams, oysters. (two sides of its shells)   Bivalve species  
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chemical smell to attract a mate   Pheromones  
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Babies (newly hatched) for insects   Larva  
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mosquitos   Wucheria vector  
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rodents & pigs   Porkworm vector  
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New World Hookworm southern U.S. small intestine. through skin contact   Necator americanus  
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segments on its body   Metamerism  
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ingesting feces   Roundworm of humans transmittal  
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squids & octopus's. Jet perpulsion capture prey with tentacles.   Class Cephalopoda  
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Leeches   Hirudinea  
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molting   Ecdysis  
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with pseudopod   Ameoba locomotion, and made of?  
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Arthropoda   Crab phylum  
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Arthropoda sub: Myripoda   Millipede Phylum  
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Annelida   Leech phylum  
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4x   Scanning objective  
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smaller knob   Fine Adjustment Knob  
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only fine adjustment   Which adjustment(s) with high-power objective?  
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Phenotypic ratio   Appearance  
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Louse nit   eggs from lice. glue to hair  
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butterfly phylum   Arthropoda  
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Spider phylum   Arthropoda  
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stage   where organism is placed to be observed on microscope  
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Which adjustment(s) with scanning objective?   course & fine  
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Shannon-Weiner score comparisons   The higher the score, the more dense the area is with organisms.  
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Dichotomous means?   divides in two  
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Earthworm phylum   Annelida  
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Clam phylum   Mollusca  
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Earthworm bristles   setae  
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High-power objective   400x use only fine adjustment  
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longest objective   400x, high power use only fine  
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Biodiversity   variety of life or species  
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Squid phylum   Mollusca  
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Coral phylum   Cnidaria  
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Hydra phylum   Cnidaria  
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Contractile vacuole takes this in   water  
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Course adjustment knob   big knob. only for low power  
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Which adjustment(s) with low-power objective?   course & fine adjustment  
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Genotypic ratio   not appearance. 2:1:1  
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Octopus phylum   Mollusca  
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Worm phylum   Annelida  
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Earthworm reaction to light   goes away from light  
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field of view   the area through a microscope that you can see  
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first objective when viewing slide   scanning  
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Shannon-Weiner is what?   test to measure diversity  
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How to use a dichotomous key   start on #1 and read carefully. Then examine the organism. Choose which step is right and follow that step. Keep going until you get to an end.  
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Jellyfish phylum   Cnidaria  
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Sea Anemone phylum   Cnidaria  
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Hermaphrodite   both male & female in one.  
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Low-power objective   100x, use cause & fine adjustment  
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Built-in scope magnification   10x  
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Kleenex on lens?   never  
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Chewing louse vs. sucking louse   chewing louse = wide mouth. sucking louse = narrow mouth.  
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Class Chilopoda   Centipedes  
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Order Lepidoptera   Moths, butterflies  
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Class Diplopoda   Millepedes  
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Order Trichoptera   Caddis Flies  
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Order Coleoptera   Beetles  
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Class Insecta   Insects  
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Order Mantodea   Mantids  
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Phylum Arthopoda   ants, crabs, spiders  
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Order Hymenoptera   Ants, bees, wasps  
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Order Blattaria   Cockroaches  
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Order Diptera   Flies  
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Order Plecoptera   stone flies  
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Order Ephemeroptera   mayflies  
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Order Orthoptera   grasshoppers, crickets, katydids  
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Order Odonata   Dragon flies, damselflies  
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Order Isoptera   Termites  
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Order Siphonaptera   Fleas  
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Order Phthiraptera   Sucking & chewing lice  
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Diseases transmitted by insects   malaria, lyme disease, african sleeping sickness, babonic plague.  
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Tympanic organ   thin membrane over air sac. picks up vibrations, like drums  
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Mouths of butterflies, mosquitoes, flies   narrow, for sucking  
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Trailing pheromone & example   helps other members of a colony to identify location & quantity of food by one member of a colony. (termites)  
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Holometabolous   radical change, butterfly. reduces competition.  
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Central disk   area in middle of starfish.  
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Class Asteroidea   starfish  
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Aristotle's lantern   chewing apparatus expelled from mouth. 35 ossicles to cut food.  
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Protandry   makes males & releases first, then releases females.  
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Stalk   where a sea lilie attaches to a substrate.  
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Lateral line filled with and purpose   vibrations in water  
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Class Petromyzontida   lampreys  
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2 fish adaptations for swimming   uses pelvic fins, bones & tissues are less dense.  
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Subphylum Cephalochordata species   lancelets  
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Class Crinoidea   sea lillies & feather stars  
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Hemimetabolous   immature gradually takes adult form  
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Chordata symmetry   bilateral  
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Osteichthyes   bony fish, 24,000 species  
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Fish muscle arrangement   undulate posteriorly  
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Class Sarcopterygii   lungfish  
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Lamprey's mouth & saliva   teeth line mouth tongue wears away at scale. saliva has anticoajulate  
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3 parts of insect thorax   prothorax, mesothorax, zetathorax  
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Sea urchin feeding pathway   Food enters tube feet, aristotles lantern, mouth cavity, pharynx, esophagus, intestines, anus  
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Atrial siphon   opening for excurrent water, out.  
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Stolons   root like extensions of tunic  
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Parts of a lancelet   notochord, oral hood, cirri, pharangeal slits, midgut cecum, atrium, atriospore, dorsal & caudal fin.  
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lamprey life cycle   male make depresion.Fmale go by nest.attach to rock.male attach to fmale.wraps body around.Fmale shed eggs.he fertilizes.cover depression w/sand.Parents die.3 wks pass, eggs hatch.Larva filter feed for 3-7 yrs metamorphosis/special mouth.travel to sea to  
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Lungfish adaptation   can survive 6 months in mud.  
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Fish circulatory system pathway   deoxygenated blood comes in. go to atrium next, then to ventrical. to conus arteriosis.to ventral aorta.to vessels called afferent brachial arteries. to gills. to gill capillaries. oxygen gets in. to efferent brachial arteries. to dorsal aorta. to body.  
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Nephrons   filters toxins in kidneys of fish.  
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Thermo-regulation   regulating body temperature  
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Cryptic coloration in insects   camoflauge. moths that look like bark.  
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Specific benefits of flight   getting food, migrating easier, getting away, breeding purposes, invading new habitats  
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Caste-regulating pheromone & example   used by social insects to control the development of individuals in a colony. (ants)  
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Osmotic movement of water in fresh and marine fish   fresh - hypotonic marine - hypertonic  
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Parts of a fish   anterior dorsal, posterior dorsal, caudal, anal, pelvic, pectoral, gill operculum, lateral line  
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ichthyology   studying fish  
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4 characteristics of Phylum Chordata   notochord, dorsal neural tube, pharnygeal slit, post anal tail  
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Sea squirt metamorphosis   skin shrinks & pulls the notochord, forming adult tissue. rotates 180 degrees  
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Crown   unattached end  
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How do starfish eat?   attaches to mollusks, pull apart, pushes stomach into bivalve w/ digestive enzyme, digest & retracts.  
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Ametabolous metamorphosis   without sexual maturity & body size is way different from young & old.  
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Caverian tubules   In respiratory tree in sea cucumbers, comes out of anus to scare predators.  
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lancelet feeding   filter feeders  
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Class Echinoidea   sand dollars & sea urchins  
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Pinnules   branch off of arms, featherlike  
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Subphylum Urochordata species   tunicates, largest class. sea squirts.  
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Arms   sea lillies & feather stars  
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Symmetry in echinoderms   Penta radial  
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Respiratory tree functions how?   anus opens up, water flows in anus pushes out water. 2 tubes branch off rectum.  
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Lateral canals   branch of radial canals  
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Monoecious   one sex  
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Alarm pheromone & example   released to warn others of danger.  
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Parts of a hagfish   4 pairs of tennacles, sensory surround mouth, ventrolateral produce lots of slime  
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Johnston's organs & setae   at the base of the antenae, setae vibrate when they hear certain frequencies  
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Shark teeth   scales, lots of teeth, rows of them  
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Nares - used for?   Nose-smell migration  
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Paddlefish found where?   lakes & river of Mississippi river basin  
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Phylum Echinodermata   All marine  
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Instar   stages of insects life  
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Kin selection   give up reproduction rights for survival of thos related to you.  
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Kingdom & Phylum & class of insects   kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class:Insecta  
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Sex pheromone & example   excite & attract opposite sex. horseshoe crabs & bees  
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Dessicate   to dry out  
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Ossicles   skeletal plates, mesoderm  
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Suction cups   at ends of tube feet  
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Sea Urchin subtrate   any hard surface they attach to  
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Oral hood   projects over anterior end  
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Oral siphon   inlet for water opposite of attached end  
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Cirri   ciliated, hangs from oral hood, where food gets sorted  
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Calyx   where crown meets stalk  
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Phylum Chordata examples   vertebrae or closely related invertebrates, humans, fish  
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Class Holothuroidea   cucumber with spines  
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Dioecious   Males & females are different. Ex: Humans  
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Radial canals   (s) branch off of ring canal  
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Class Chondrichthyes   fish w/ cartilage  
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Class Myxini   hag fish  
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Tracheae   branch system of tubes throughout body, carbon + 0 2 exch.  
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Bilateral placement advantage   tympanic organ on both sides lets it hear from both sides  
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Copraphage   eat waste, garbage, herbivores, ditridivores, carnivores  
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2 factors influencing reproduction   environmental conditions, health of mothers  
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Paddlefish rostrum   long snouts, detect electrical fields  
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Bee Hive Social Structure   four caste: workers, queens, soldiers, & drones. Queen secretes caste regulating.  
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Mimicry in insects   look like a different animal, camo. butterfly  
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Electro-reception   can sense electrical fields  
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Tube feet   end of lateral canals  
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Fish adaptations for buoyancy   livers have buoyant oils, use pelvic fins, tissue & bones are lighter, swim bladder with nematic sac.  
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Nymph   step above larva, immature  
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Advantage of echinoderm symmetry   odd number of legs, makes it stronger.  
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Aggregation pheromone & example   produced to attract individuals to feeding or mating sights. flies  
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Shivering thermogenesis   shivering to create body heat  
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Fish gas exchange pathway   veins-carry deoxygenated blood- sinous venus- atrium-venticle-canus arteriorus - ventricle aorta - afferent brachial - gill capillaries - efferent brachial - dorsal aorta capillary  
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Class Actinopterygii   sturgens, paddlefish  
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Caste   social order, grouping with species  
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Ring Canal   surrounds mouth of sea stars  
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Class Amphibia   frogs, salamanders, noots, toads, land & water  
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Tertrapod   four legs  
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Amphibia found   everywhere but Antarctica  
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Amphibia species   6,000  
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Amphibia order   Caudata: Salamander, 400 species  
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Amphibia legs   unspecialized compared to frogs.  
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Amphibia found in   caves, dark places, under rocks.  
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Family Salamandridae   noots, in water  
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2 cm - 1.5 meters Convert!   2 cm - 150 cm, .78 in - 59.1 in .065ft - 4.92 ft  
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North Americas largest   Hellbender  
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Fertilization   inside female, coupulate.  
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Spermatophore   pyramid of sperm  
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Spermatheca   pouch where female stores sperm  
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Larva   aquatic  
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metamorphosis   Change, sometimes go under metamorphosis when pond dries out.  
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Order Gynophiona   caecilians, snakelike  
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Order Gynophiona commonly called   Caecilians  
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Gynophiona eyes   covered by skin, nearly blind  
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Gynophiona behavior   they burrow  
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Gynophiona fertilication   internal  
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Order Anura   frogs & toads, 4,000 species  
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Anura feet   webbed, sticky  
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anura legs   very muscular, specialized  
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Anura fertilization   external  
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Anura eggs and larva   tadpole  
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anura drastic metamorphosis   loses tail & gills, aquatic, terra  
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Anura Family Bufonidae   toads, skin is different, toads are dryer & wartier. Bufo americanus.  
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Family Ranidae   frogs, smooth and wet  
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Amphibian properties: skin secretions   antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer?  
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Amphibian skin   no scales, no hair, epidermal layer.  
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Amphibian glandular   lots of glands.  
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4 functions of Amphibians glands   1. secrete toxic chemicals, discourage predators. 2. secrete water to stay moist 3. poisonous neurotoxin 4. sticky stuff for mating  
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Amphibian Chromatophores   color, cells on epidermis that control skin color.  
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Amphibian skull   top is flat. can peek above water.  
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Vertebrae cervical   first vertabrae, supports head.  
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Sacral vertebrae   last trunk vertebrae  
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1st caudal vertebrae   1st tail bone  
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Vertebrae Zygaphoses   where bone interlocks, prevents twisting.  
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body wall musculature v. fish   fish has more body wall masculature. frogs have more masculature on appendages.  
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how do salamanders move?   Pulls with front, back legs swing from side to side.  
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Anurans nutrition   carnivores  
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Larva   eat grass particles  
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salamanders & caecilians   smell, olfactory  
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adult anurans   sight, to capture prey. Capture w/ tongue w/ mucus glands.  
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Blood leaves conus arterious, 3 different directions   Carotid: takes blood to head. Systemic: through limbs. Pulmonary: to lungs.  
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Gas exchange (anurans)   occurs across skin, cutaneous.  
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Cutaneous respiration   across the skin  
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Buccal pump   ventilation mechanism  
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Buccopharyngeal ventilation   occurs in mouth & pharynx.  
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Anurans temperture regulation   ectothermic  
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ectothermic   rely o environment to maintain body temperature. cold blooded.  
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to change body temperature anurans   bask or burrow.  
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Brain of amphibians   forebrain - olfactory midbrain - usual hindbrain - motor coordination homeostasis  
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sensory receptors   lateral line important when tadpole  
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sight - accommodation   focusing - have rods & cones  
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Anurans tympanic organs   thin membrane  
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dessicate   to dry out. stay in moist place. skin takes in water.  
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