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Ch. 20 Unifying Concepts of Animal Function and Structure Flashcards

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What is structure always related to?

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Function

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Anatomy

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Structure (size, shape, material)

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Physiology

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Function (how work together)

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Division of Labor

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All living organisms are a collection of specialized parts

  • each part has specific tasks
  • all components must cooperate to benefit the whole
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What is the structural hierarchy?

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1) Cell
2) Tissue
3) Organ
4) Organ System
5) Organism

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Specialized Cell

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All the same at one point but differentiation occurs when only certain genes are expressed and proteins made
- nerve, muscles, red blood cells

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Tissue

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Group of similar cells connected together to perform specific function

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What are the types of tissue?

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1) Epithelial
2) Connective
3) Muscle

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Epithelial (Tissue)

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Sheets of closely packed cells that cover body surfaces both inside/outside

  • lines organs and passageways/tubes
  • held down by basement membrane
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How is epithelial tissue named?

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of cells and shape

  • simple or stratified
  • squamous, cuboidal, or columnar
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What is the basement membrane?

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Dense mat of fibrous proteins
- the extracellular matrix, consisting of a dense mat of proteins and sticky polysaccharids, that anchor an epithelium to underlying tissues

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Connective (Tissue)

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Specialized cells thru extracellular matrix forming web of fibers

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What are the 6 types of connective tissue?

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1) Loose Connective Tissue
2) Adipose
3) Blood
4) Fibrous Connective Tissue
5) Cartilage
6) Bone

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Loose Connective Tissue

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Loose web of fibers made of collagen (rope like protein) for binding/packing material
- holds organs down

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Adipose

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Pads, insulates, stores energy

- contains large fat droplet (swells w/ fat, shrinks w/o)

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Blood

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55% plasma 45% corpuscles (blood cells)

- transport materials, fight infection

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Fibrous Connective Tissue

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Densely packed bundle of collagen fibers

- ligaments and tendons

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Cartilage

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Collagen fibers covered in rubbery fibers

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Bone

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Living cells held in a rigid matrix of collagen fibers embedded in calcium
- living marrow and non living matrix of cells

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Muscles (Tissue)

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Bundles of long cells (muscle fibers)

- most common tissue

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What are the types of muscle tissue?

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1) Skeletal
2) Smooth
3) Cardiac
4) Nerve

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Skeletal (muscle)

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Attach to bones by tendons

  • voluntary
  • striated (light/dark bands)
  • retract rapidly but fatigue quickly
  • fixed number of skeletal muscle tissue
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Smooth (muscle)

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Lines the organs and passageways

  • involuntary
  • shaped like spindles
  • slow contraction, slow fatigue
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Cardiac (muscle)

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Contractile tissue in heart

- looks skeletal, acts like smooth but branched cells

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Nerve (muscle)

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Coordinates bodily activities

  • provides ability to respond to environment (send info)
  • detects stimuli, sends message, determines response, directs behavior
  • made of neurons
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What are neurons?

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Nerve cell

  • fundamental structural and functional unit of the nervous system, specialized for carrying signals from one location in the body to another
  • cell body, dendrites, axons
  • sends electrochemical impulses
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Organs

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A structure consisting of several tissues adapted as a group to perform specific functions

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What are the types of Organ Systems?

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1) Digestive
2) Respiratory
3) Circulatory
4) Lymphatic
5) Immune
6) Excretory
7) Endocrine Gland
8) Reproductive
9) Nervous
10) Muscular
11) Skeletal
12) Integumentary

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Digestive System

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Ingests food, breaks down food, absorbs nutrients

  • digestion mainly in stomach and small intestines
  • large intestine absorbs water and compacts indigestible materials into feces
  • live discharges bile, metabolic reactions, producing blood protein, remove toxins and worn out cells from blood
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Respiratory System

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Exchange gases (O2 and CO2) b/w internal and external environment
- air goes into mouth/nose -> larynx -> trachea -> bronchi -> lungs (reverse)
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Circulatory System

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Circulate blood thru out body, deliver oxygen/materials, dispose of waste

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Lymphatic System

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Returns lymph fluid that leaks out of blood vessels; fights infections
- the organ system thru which lymph circulates; includes lymph vessels, lymph nodes, spleen; helps remove toxins and pathogens from body and interstitial fluid, and returns fluid and solutes from the interstitial fluid to circulatory system

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Immune System

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Protects body by attacking foreign substances

- lymphocytes (manufacture antibodies)

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Excretory System

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Removes nitrogen from blood (cellular metabolism)

  • kidneys regulate osmotic balance, proper pH
  • urine -> ureter -> bladder -> urethra
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Endocrine Gland

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Glands + Hormones

  • regulates growth (homeostasis)
  • the organ system consisting of ductless glands that secrete hormones and the molecular receptors on or in target cells that respond to the hormones; cooperates w/ nervous system in regulating body functions + maintaining homeostasis
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Reproductive System

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Creates new life.

  • different by gender, can survive w/o
  • preservation of species, not individual
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Nervous System

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Coordinates body activities; responds to internal and external stimuli

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Muscular System

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Locomotion (movement), protection, generate heat

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Skeletal System

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Provides support, protection, mineral storage, and corpuscles

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Integumentary System

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Skin, largest system

- protects from dehydration, infection, injury, temperature extremes

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Organism

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Living individual

- only survive w/ cooperative interaction b/w all parts

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What are the 2 sides of epithelial tissue?

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1) “Free surface”

2) Anchored by basement membrane

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Mucous Membrane

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Smooth, moist, epithelium that lines the digestive tract and air tubes leading to the lungs

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Ligaments

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Attach bone to muscle

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Tendons

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Attaches bones together

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Dendrite

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Conveys signals toward cell body

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Axon

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Transmits signals away from body (to neuron)

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Cardiovascular System

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A closed circulartory system w/ a heart and branching network of arteries, capillaries, and veins

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Computed Tomography (CT)

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A technology that uses a computer to create X-ray images of a series of sections thru the body

  • HD video images of cross section or combined for 3D view
  • detects b/w small differences of normal and abnormal tissues in organs (evaluate brain problems)
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What are the three failures of X-Rays?

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1) Soft tissue is not visible
2) Flat 2D image
3) Can cause cancer

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How do X-Rays work?

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High energy radiation hits the body and passes thru tissue easily. Those that it does, the shadow appears distinctly on the film paper so bones and tumors

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

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Imaging technology that uses magnetism and radio waves to induce hydrogen nuclei in water molecules to emit faint radio signals; a computer creates images of the body from the radio signals

  • good for detecting problems in nervous tissue surrounding bone
  • shows tissue b/c water is major component and bones don’t have water
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Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

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Imaging technology that uses radioactively labeled biological molecules, such as glucose, to obtain info about metabolic processes at specific locations in the body; the labeled molecules are injected into the bloodstream and a PET scan for radioactive emissions determines which tissues have taken up the molecules
- insight into brain activity

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Interstitial Fluid

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An aqueous solution that surrounds body cells and thru which materials pass back and forth b/w the blood and body tissues
- fluid that bathes all of the cells

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Homeostasis

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The steady state of body functioning; a state of equilibrium characterized by a dynamic interplay b/w outside forces that tend to change an organism’s internal environment and the internal control mechanisms that oppose such changes
- maintaining balance

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Negative Feedback

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A control mechanism in which a chemical reaction, metabolic pathway, or hormone-secreting gland is inhibited by the products of the reaction, pathway, or gland; as the concentration of the products builds up, the product molecules themselves inhibit the process that produced them
- prevent small changes from becoming too large

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What must all organisms exchange with environment?

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In: nutrients, oxygen, and water
Out: waster and carbon

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What do all single celled and simple multicellular organisms have in common?

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All cells are in direct contact with needs.

  • diffusion occurs
  • direct exchange
  • surface area is almost equal to volume
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How does complex multicellular organisms obtain nutrients if their cells not in contact with environment?

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Specialized exchange structures b/c surface area is to volume is too small, so use internal surfaces, organs, tissues, organ system, and interstitial fluid.

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What are the 3 requirements that must be met for site of exchange?

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1) Extensive Surface Area
- more interstitial fluid is in contact w/ tissue
- folds, ridges, grooves, branching, projections
2) Must be thin
- diffusion can only travel a short distance
3) Moist
- so diffusion can occur

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What are examples of homeostasis?

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Temperature, pH, water concentration, salt concentration, oxygen/carbon dioxide concentration, nutrients and wastes

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