Animal Phys. Midterm Study Flashcards
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Complex Multicellular Features
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- Highly developed mechanisms for adhesion
- Specialized structures for cell communication
- 3-D organization (not all cells in direct contact w/ environment)
- Require mechanisms for transferrring signals
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Surface Area & Volume
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As organisms get bigger, surface area and volume both grow
Surface / volume ratio shrinks
As SA decreases, more limited by diffusion
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Diffusion Limits
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- Size must be small for diffusion to meet needs
- Not a lot of storage space for NRG
- Small range of environments
- Reproduce quickly and often
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Evolve Multicellularity Pros
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- Longer life span
- Cells specialize and are more efficient
- Bigger is better
- Injuries can be sustained
- Harder to prey upon
- Sexual reproduction: increased genetic diversity
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Evolve Multicellularity Cons
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- Increased energy requirements.
- Can no longer rely on osmosis and simple diffusion
- Longer time to reach adulthood/reproduce
- Infections
- Variety of challenges to overcome…
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Ganglia
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Groups of nerve cell bodies that process sensory information
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Properties of Simple Multicellular Organisms
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- Adhesion molecules that cause adjacent cells to stick together
- Little communication or transfer of resources between cells and little differentiation of specialized cell types.
- Most or all of the cells retain a full range of functions including reproduction.
- Every cell is in contact with the external environment.
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Cephalization
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Concentrating sensory organs and nervous system components at the front of the body
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Neurons
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Basic functional unit of nervous system
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Nervous System
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- Network of many interconnected nerve cells
- Sense and respond to the environment
- Coordinate action of muscles
- Control internal function of body
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Sensory Neurons
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- Send and receive information about an animal’s environment or its internal physiological state
- Respond to physical features such as temperature, light, and touch or to chemical signals such as odor and taste.
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Interneurons
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- Process the information received by sensory neurons and transmit it to different body regions, communicating with motor neurons at the end of a pathway
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Motor Neurons
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Produce suitable responses by stimulating muscles.
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Axon Terminal
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Communicates with neighboring cell through junction (synapse)
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Synaptic Cleft
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Separates end of axon of presynaptic cell and neighboring postsynaptic cell
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Neurotransmitters
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Convey the signal from the end of the axon to the postsynaptic target cell.
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Signal Transmission
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- Stimuli Received by Dendrites and Cell body
- Stimuli summoned at axon hillock (Action Potential triggered if signal is strong enough)
- Action potential conducted to axon terminal –> release of neurotransmitters
- Bind to receptors on postsynaptic cell –> new signal in postsynaptic neuron
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Threshold
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Input depolarizes cell above threshold potential
Sends Action potential
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Depolarization
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Increase in membrane potential
Na+ ions enter the cell (voltage-gated channels)
Causes positive charge, and membrane potential rises
Action potential fired at axon hillock
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Repolarization
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Caused by Na+ channels closing and K+ channels opening
Membrane potential rapidly falls as K+ ions leave the cell
Falls below the resting potential
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Refractory Period
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Can’t fire action potential
The K+ channels are still closing
Returns to resting as K+ ions are returned via pumps
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Myelin Sheath
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Insulates axon’s membrane
Spreads charge a greater distance on the axon
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Glial Cell
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Surround neurons and provide them with nutrition and physical support
Orient neurons as they develop their connections
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Astrocytes
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Type of Glial Cell
Contribute to blood-brain barrier
Clear neurotransmitters btwn synapses
Glial scar and repair damage
Component of Central Nervous System
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No Summation
EPSPs widely spread don't set off Action Potential
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Temporal Summation
Multiple EPSPs arrive quickly at a single synapse and set off an action potential
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Spatial Summation
EPSPs at 2 or more different synapses set off an action potential
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Cancellation
An EPSP and IPSP cancel each other out (no action potential)
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Somatic (Voluntary) Responses
- Conscious rxns
- Sense and respond to environment
- Sight, smell, sound
- Motor neurons that excite muscles --> contraction
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Autonomic (Involuntary) responses
- Unconscious rxns
- Regulate internal body functions that maintain homeostasis
- Sympathetic and parasympathetic
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Parasympathetic
Rest and digest
Conserves NRG, slows heart rate, increases intestinal and gland activity, relaxes sphincter muscles
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Sympathetic
Fight or flight
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Afferent Neurons
Send information towards Central Nervous System
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Efferent Neurons
Send information away from Central Nervous System
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Chemoreceptors
Respond to molecules that bind to specific protein receptors on the cell membrane
1. Molecule binds to protein receptor (protein receptor changes shape)
2. Na+ channels open through G Protein transduction pathways
3. Depolarization of cell
4. Release of neurotransmitters
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Mechanoreceptors
Respond to physical deformations of their membrane produced by touch, stretch, pressure, motion, and sound
1. Deformation of receptor membrane opens Na+ channels (depolarization)
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Photoreceptors
1. Respond to photons of light NRG
2. Close Na+ channels
3. Cell is hyperpolarized
4. Inhibit firing rate of other neurons within the eye
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Electroreceptors
Detect weak electrical signals emitted by organisms
In fish and monotremes
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Thermoreceptors
Respond to heat and cold to control body temp and homeostasis
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Nociceptors
External and internal
Respond to pain
Respond to noxious signals
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Lateral Inhibition
Enhances strength of sensory signal but diminishes it peripherally
Inhibit neurons that receive signals from adjacent regions but send excitatory signals to interneurons within local region
Know exactly where something is interacting with our body
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Smell
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Smell
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Multicellular Organism
Highly developed mechanisms for adhesion
Specialized structures for communication
Tissue + organ differentiation
3d
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Connective Tissue
fat, bone, cartilage support/protection
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Epithelial Tissue
Covers our bodies surfaces
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Muscular Tissues
skeletal, smooth, cardiac
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Nervous Tissue
Conduct Signals
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Organ
Made of tissues
| Performs a definite function
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Organ System
Group of organs that each contribute to the function of the body as a whole
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Bulk transport
Deliver substance over large distances
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PNS
Sensory and motor nerves
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CNS
Brain and spinal chord
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Dendrite
Receive info
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Axon
Transmit Info
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Synapse
Junction btwn cells
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Membrane Potential
The charge difference between the inside and the outside of a neuron due to differences in charged ions
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Ganglia
Group of nerve bodies that process sensory information
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Node of Ranvier
Where the axon is exposed
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Saltatory Propagation
Action potentials jump from node to node
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Voltage Gated Channels
Open and close in response to change in membrane potential
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Reciprocal Inhibition
Inhibit activity of opposing muscles
| Flexing your knee
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Sensory Organ
Converts physical and chemical stimuli into nerve impulses.
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Sensory Transduction
The conversion of physical or chemical stimuli into nerve impulses
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G Protein Coupled Receptor
When the extracellular receptor binds its ligand it changes shape causeing the G-protein to become phosphorylated (GTP) giving it energy.
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Taste bud
Cluster of chemosensory receptor cells
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5 Flavors
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Sweet
Sour
Bitter
Salty
Savory
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G Protein coupled tastes
Sweet, bitter, savory
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Stereocilia
Small, nonmotile projections
| Line cell surface
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Statocysts
Gravity Sensing Organs
| Internal chambers lined by hair cells with stereocilia that project into the chamber
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Statolith
A dense particle of mall granules of sand or other material
| Free to move within the statocyst organ.
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Hair cell
Sense movement and vibrations via mechanical vibrations
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Vestibular System
Senses motions of the head and its orientation with respect to gravity
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Outer Ear
Pinna
Ear Canal
Tympanic Membrane (Eardrum)
Transmits airborne sounds into ear
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Middle Ear
3 small bones
| Amplify waves that strike eardrum
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Vestibulocochlear Nerve
Vestibular and cochlear branches
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Inner
Cochlea
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Cochlea
Coiled chamber within the skull that contains hair cells that convert pressure waves into an electrical impulse that is sent to the brain.
Has upper and lower canal separated by basilar membrane and cochlear duct
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Tectorial Membrane
Formed by stereocilia
| Doesn't move
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Organ of Corti
Contains specialized hair cells with stereocilia
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Retinal
Light absorbing pigment
| changes conformation when it absorbs a photon
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Opsin
Light sensitive protein that converts light energy into electrical signals in the receptor cell.
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Fovea
Cone cells concentrated
Center of visual field
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Ciliary Muscle
Contraction and relaxation adjust shape of lense
Focus light images
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Iris
Opens and closes to adjust amount of light that enters through the pupil
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Rods
Black/white
| Perephrial
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Cones
Color vision
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PDE
Hydrolyzes cGMP --> Close Na channels
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Bipolar Cells
Adjust their release of neurotransmitters in response to the input from multiple rod and cone cells.
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Ganglion Cell
transmit action potentials via the optic nerve to the visual cortex in the brain.
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Horizontal Cell
Enhances contrast through lateral inhibition to sharpen the image
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Amacrine Cell
Enhances motion detection and adjusting for changes in illumination
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Forebrain
governs advanced cognitive functions
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Hindbrain
controls body functions and behaviors
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Cerebellum
Coordinate complex motor tasks
| Integrates motor and sensory info
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Medulla oblongata
Center for respiration and circulation
| Regulate breathing, heart and blood vessel function
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Cerebrum/Cerebral Cortex
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Outer layer (grey matter)
Inner layer (white matter) = axons
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Initiates and coordinates movement, regulates temp
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Frontal Lobe
Decision making, taste, smell
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Parietal Lobe
Body and spatial awareness
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Occipital Lobe
Process visual info
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Temporal Lobe
Process sound and speech
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Primary Motor Cortex
muscle movement in response to PSC
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Primary Sensory Cortex
takes in tactile info (vibrations, pain, temperature)
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Hippocampus
Long term memory fuction
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VTA
Sends domine to the amygdala, hippocampus, N accumbens, prefrontal cortex
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Amygdala
Emotion
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Prefrontal Cortex
Focus
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Dopamine
Makes you feel happy
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Serotonin
Makes you feel satiated
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synaptic plasticity
Ability to adjust synaptic connections between neurons
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Electroencephelogram
Detect brain activity by measuring electrical impulses
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Beta, Alpha, Delta, Theta Waves
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Beta = alert
Alpha = light meditation
Theta = drowsy
Delta = deep sleep
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4 Stages of Sleep
N1 = light sleep
(between being awake and falling asleep)
N2 = onset of sleep
(disengaged from surroundings, breathing and heart rate are regular, and body temp drops)
N3 = deepest and most restorative sleep
(BP decreases, muscles relax, the blood supply to muscles increases, tissue growth and repair NRG restored)
N4 = REM
(NRG to brain and body, restores brain chemistry, solidify new memories, dreams)
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Striated Muscle
Looks striped under a microscope
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Myrofibril
Rod like structure that has parallel arrays of actin and myosin
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Skeletal vs Cardiac vs Smooth muscle
Skeletal connect to skeleton
| Smooth found in walls of arteries, respiratory system, digestive system
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Muscle Fiber (Cell)
Has several nuclei
| Made of microfibrils
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Muscle Bundle
Group of muscle cells
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Thin Filament
2 helically arranged actin filaments
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Thick Filament
2 long polypeptide chains of myosin with globular head
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Tropomyosin
Wraps around thin filament
| Blocks myosin from pulling actin
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Troponin
Ca binds and causes movement of tropomyosin
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Sacromere
Region between 2 Z discs
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Z Disc
Protein backbones
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A Band
Myosin and actin overlap, has H band in the middle
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I Band
Only actin, Z band in the middle, shortens during contraction
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Sliding Filament Model
Muscles change length and produce force by the sliding of actin filaments relative to myosin filaments
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Cross Bridge Cycle
1. Myosin head binds ATP and detaches from actin
2. Myosin head catalyzes the hydrolysis of ATP and cocks the head back
3. The myosin head binds actin forms a cross-bridge
4. ADP is released and produces a power stroke , causes the muscle to contract
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Motor Endplate
Where neurotransmitter binds with postsynaptic receptors on the muscle cell
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T Tubule
Conducts depolarization into interior fiber
| Orange tube
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Sarcoplasmic reticulum
Depolarization leads to release of Ca from sarcoplasmic reticulum
Blue wrap around muscle cell
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Antagonist v Anonist Muscle
Pull in opposite directions
| Muscles that combine to produce smaller motion = agonist
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Force Summation
2nd action potential arrives before muscle can relax → greater force produced
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Tetanus Contraction
Muscle force reaches plateau and remains steady as stimulation continues
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Motor Unit
Motor neuron and the muscle fibers it innervates
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Phermone Prefixes
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Endo = internal
Para = regional small distance
Auto = within a cell or adjacent cells
Exo = external
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Hydrophilic hormones
Can’t cross bilayer
Activate signal transduction pathways
Quick response, short effect
Surface receptor → 2nd messenger pathway
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Hydrophobic Hormones
Cross bilayer
Alter gene expression
Slow response, long effect
Receptor in cytoplasm or nucleus
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hypothalamus
Send signals to pituitary gland
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Neurosecretory cells
Releases hormones into bloodstream
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releasing factor hormones
Stimulate anterior pit to release stimulating hormones
| Stimulating hormones cause release of other hormones
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tropic vs. direct hormones
Tropic hormones control the release of other hormones
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insulin
Hormone circulates the blood
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Anterior pituitary
Neurosecretory cells release releasing factors in bloodstream → ant pit release hormones
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posterior pituitary
Neuorsecorty cells extend axons into post pit → release hormones into the bloodstream
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Glucagon
Hormone stimulates breakdown of glycogen into glucose and release from liver/muscle cells
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corticotropin-releasing factor
Stimulates the release of larger amount of ACTH by ant pit
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adrenocorticotropic hormone
Stimulates cells to secrete cortisol
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Cortisol
Causes acute stress response
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positive feedback
Accelerate the response of the target cell
| Stimulus causes response in same direction as the initial stimulus
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oxytocin
Causes contraction during labor
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Presynaptic Cell
Neuron sending the signal
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Postsynaptic Cell
Information goes to another neuron
| Neuron receiving the information
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Negative Feedback
A response (such as heat) opposes the stimulus (cold), leading to a stable state (a steady temperature).
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Nucleus accumbens
Register motions to invoke experience
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Type of muscle found in heart, limbs, and torso
Striated
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Effect of ADP and Pi release from myosin
Power stroke (thin filament slides)
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Type of contraction results in greatest force achieved by a muscle
Lengthening contraction
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Characteristics of striated muscle cell
Mulitple nuclei
Hundreds of microfibrils
Mitochondria
Sarcoplasmic reticulum
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Effect of ATP Hydrolysis
Cocking back of myosin head
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Muscle protein types found in striated and smooth muscles
Actin & myosin
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Force exerted by a muscle depends on
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# of motor units activated
Frequency of stimulation
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Autonomic nervous system
Sends nerve signals to smooth and cardiac muscles
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Muscle Force Output
Depends on # of motor units activated in a given time frame
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What causes muscle cell to fire Action Potential
Release of Ca2+ from Sarcoplasmic reticulum
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Bulk Flow Example
Ventilation via trachea and circulation
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Highest partial pressure of O2
Trachea / mouth
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Lowest partial pressure of O2
Pulmonary artery
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Nerve signals from the hypothalamus control hormone output of
Posterior pit gland
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Smallest structure in the lung
Alveolus
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Organ produces oxytocin and ADH
Posterior pit
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Gas exchange
The transport of O2 and CO2 between an animal and its environment
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bulk flow vs diffusion
Diffusion: the random movement of individual molecules
| Bulk Flow: physical movement of fluid over a given distance
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ventilation
Bulk Flow
Movement of animal’s respiratory medium past a specialized respiratory surface'
Breathing moves air into the lungs and Carbon out of the lungs
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circulation
Bulk Flow
Movement of a specialized body fluid that carries O2 and CO2
Oxygen and CO2 are transported by the circulatory system to and from cells
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tidal ventilation
Inhalation and exhalation
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intercostal muscles and diaphragm
Attached to adjacent pairs of ribs
| Assist diaphragm by elevating ribs on inhalation and depressing during exhalation
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trachea
Central airway leading to lungs
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Bronchi
Airway that supplies a lung
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bronchiole
Carries air to alveoli
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alveoli
Gas diffusion takes place
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pulmonary capillaries
Small blood vessels
| Supply alveolar wall
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Hemoglobin vs Myoglobin
Hemoglobin
Has 4 binding sites
Myoglobin
Has 1 binding site
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Heme group (Fe)
Binds to oxygen
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loading vs unloading
Areas with high PP of O2 → hemoglobin load up
| Areas with low PP of O2 → hemoglobin unloads
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cooperative binding
Once one heme binds, the other 3 groups want O2 even more Conformation change in hemoglobin after each bind
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allosteric inhibition via CO2 and H+
Biproducts of cellular respiration bind to heme groups and prevent binding of O2. Makes sure that O2 is available to cells that need it.
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dissociation curve
pO2 vs % of O2 bound to hemoglobin
| Sigmodial in shape (in the middle small changes in pO2 0→ large change in saturation)
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Artery
Large, high pressure vessels that move blood flow away from heart and to tissues
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Arteriole
Blood vessles of progressibley smaller diameter
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Vein
Large, low pressure vessels that return blood to the heart
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Venule
Progressively larger diameter vessels
| Drain into a few larger veins that return blood to the heart
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Capillary
Finely branched networks of very small blood vessels
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Pressure v Resistance
Resistance determined by fluid’s stickiness and vessel’s length (radius)
Pressure required to overcome resistance
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Blood Pressure v Osmotic Pressure
Arterial end: blood pressure = out, osmotic pressure = in (total = out)
Venous end: blood pressure = out, osmotic pressure = in (total = in)
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Lymph
Fluid that enters the lymphatic system
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Vasoconstriction v Vasodilation
Constriction: blood vessles constrict
Dilation: blood vessles relax (high blood pressure)
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Pulmonary v Systematic Circulation
Pulmonary: to the lungs
Systematic: to the rest of the body
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Systole v Diastole
Systole: Contraction of ventricles , pump blood out of the heart
Diastole: Relaxation of ventricles , fill ventricles with blood
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Modified Muscle Fibers
Transmits action potentials
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Essential Amino Acids
Can’t be synthesized by cellular pathways
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Vitamins/Minerals
Elements other than CHON required in diet
| Organic molecules required in small amounts in diet
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Foregut
Mouth, esophagus, stomach
| Digestion
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Midgut
Small intestine
| Digestion and absorption takes place
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Hindgut
Large intestine and rectum
| Absorption and elimation of waste
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Mechanical v Chemical Digestion
Mechanical: break down, move along, mix up
Chemical: completed by enzymes and require high SA
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Absorption
Breakdown products taken up into the bloodstream
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Saliva
Makes food moist and easy to swallow ; has lipase
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Amalyse
Breaks down carbs to begin digestion of sugars/starches
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Peristalsis
Waves of smooth muscle contraction and relaxation (move food along)
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Stomach
Protein and lipid breakdown
| Stores and digests foods
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Pepsin
Breaks down protein into amino acids
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Pepsinogen
Converted into pepsin with acid
It is secreted by the chief cells by the process of exocytosis
activated by either HCl or by pepsin already in the stomach and can begin to breakdown proteins via hydrolysis
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Lipases
Break down lipids
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Parietal Cell
Secretes HCL
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Pyloric Sphincter
Opens and allows small amounts of digested food to enter small intestine
Regulates rate at which the stomach empties
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Duodenum
Food enters from the stomach
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Pancreas
Produces digestive enzymes
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Gall Bladder
Bile stored
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Bile
Breaks large clusters of fats into smaller lipid droplets
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SEcretin
Released by cell lining in duodenum
| Stimulates pancreas to release bicarbonate ions to neutralize acid
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Pancreatic Duct
Joins with common bile duct to make ampulla of vater
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Villi / Microvilli
Highly folded inner surfaces in the small intestine
| Increase surface area for absorption of nutrients
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Na-glucose transporter
Glucose enters the intestinal cell with Na driven by Na concentration difference
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Glucose transport protein
Helps glucose exit the intestinal cell
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Hepatic port system
Drains spleen, pancreas, gallbladder and GI tract to teh liver
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Liver
Detox anything harmful, metabolizing energy, send sugar into circulation or store it
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Large intestine
Water and mineral ions reabsorbed
| Retains digesta long enough to absorb water and nutrients before expulsion
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Rectum
Stores waste products
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Osmotic pressure
Pressure needed to prevent water from moving across a selectively permeable membrane
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Osmoregulation
regulation of osmotic pressure or water content. It keeps internal fluids from becoming too concentrated (high osmotic pressure) or too dilute (low osmotic pressure).
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Filtration
Blood is filtered through an extracellular space
| Allows some substances to pass through but retains others
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Reabsorption
Essential molecules are transported back into the blood
Requires active transporters for some molecules
Water is reabsorbed into the cells by osmosis
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Secretion
Active transport of molecules from the blood into the extracellular space
Adds solutes to filtrate
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Nephron
Functional unit of the kidney
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Renal cortex v renal medulla
Outer layer of medulla
| Middle of nephron
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Glomerulus
Tufted loop of specialized capillaries
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Bowman’s capsule
Sac that encases tufts of capillaries
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Podocyte
Loosely interlock to create slits in cell layer
| Create filter that allows small molecules to pass through but blocks proteins/large cells
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Proximal v distal convoluted tube
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Loop of henle
Reabsorb water
| Makes the medulla salty
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Collecting duct
Empty into renal pelvis and drinking through ureter
| Levels adjusted to meet osmoregulatory needs
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Ureter
Brings urine from kidneys to bladder
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ADH
Increases collecting duct permeability to water
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AQP
Transmembrane protein
Impermeable to ion flow
Suck water from urine
