Additional Module Terms (Q1)

Question 1

The surface area of a mammal is ________ proportional to the mammal’s size.

Answer 1

Inversely

Question 2

How do mammals preserve thermal homeostasis if their levels of activity and food consumption are not sufficient?

Answer 2

Hibernation and torpor

Question 3

How is homeostasis involved in blood sugar levels?

Answer 3

When blood sugar is too high, the pancreas releases more insulin. If it is too low, the pancreas releases more glucagon.

Question 4

A common method of modification of the heat exchange for mammals wherein MAP contraction elevates the hair and increases coat loft

Answer 4

Piloerection

Question 5

What muscle contracts in piloerection?

Answer 5

Musculi arrectores pilorumor (MAP)

Question 6

What organism is able to reproduce both sexually and asexually?

Answer 6

Sea star

Question 7

Two types of photosynthetic processes

Answer 7

Oxygenic and anoxygenic

Question 8

Photosynthetic process common in algae, plants, and cyanobacteria wherein light energy transfers electron from water to carbon dioxide, producing carbohydrates

Answer 8

Oxygenic

Question 9

Photosynthesis process that has no oxygen as a byproduct

Answer 9

Anoxygenic

Question 10

Cellular adaptation that occurs due to an increase in workload that results in
the number of cells is _______.

Answer 10

Hyperplasia

Question 11

Flattened sac network that makes up the endoplasmic reticulum

Answer 11

Cisternae

Question 12

Membrane that surrounds the vacuole

Answer 12

Tonoplast

Question 13

What does the large and small subunits of the ribosome do?

Answer 13

Large subunit makes bonds while small subunits decodes genetic message

Question 14

What does the cytoskeleton do?

Answer 14

Contractile ring in cytokinesis and anchoring extracellular matrix