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How do animals regulate their internal state even in changing or harsh environments?

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Adaptations in form,function, and behavior help maintain an animals internal environment ; adaptations limit variation in temp as well as other things

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Different adaptations of animals

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Form (anatomy): insulating reduces heat loss ; Function (physiology): shivering produces heat ; Behavior: packing together reduces exposure

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What is anatomy?

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Biological structure

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What is physiology?

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biological function

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What are some necessities for animals?

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To obtain nutrients and oxygen, fight off infection, and survive to produce offspring

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What is convergent evolution?

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A type of evolution that results in similar adaptations of diverse organisms facing the same challenge

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What kind of materials are exchanged thorough the plasma membrane of animal cells?

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Nutrients, waste products, and gases

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Proportional rate of exchange

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Rate of exchange is proportional to a cell’s surface area, while amount of material that must be exchanged is proportional to a cells volume

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How do more complex animals accomplish exchange at the cellular level?

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By having specialized surfaces that are extensively branched and folded

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Hierarchical organization of the body (smallest to largest)

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Cells - tissues - organs - organ systems - organism

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Different organ systems in mammals

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Digestive, circulatory, respiratory, immune and lymphatic, excretory, endocrine, reproductive, nervous, integumentary, skeletal, muscular

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Main types of animal tissues

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Epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous

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Where is epithelial tissue?

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Covers the outside of the body and lines the organs and cavities within the body

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Different shapes of epithelial tissue

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Cuboidal, columnar, squamous

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Different arrangement of epithelial cells

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Simple, stratified, pseudostratified

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What does connective tissue do?

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It holds many tissues and organs together and in place

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What are two things that connective tissue contains?

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Fibroblasts ; macrophages

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What do fibroblasts do?

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They secrete fiber proteins

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What do macrophages do?

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They engulf foreign particles and cell debris by phagocytosis

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What are the six major types of connective tissue?

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Loose connective tissue ; fibrous connective tissue ; bone ; adipose tissue ; cartilage ; blood

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What do muscle cells consist of?

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Filaments of the proteins actin and myosin, which together enable muscles to contract

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Three types of muscle tissue and their purpose

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Skeletal (voluntary movement) ; smooth (involuntary movement) ; cardiac (contraction of heart)

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Function of nervous tissue and what it contains

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Functions in the receipt, processing, and transmission of information ; contains neurons (transmits nerve impulses), and glial cells or glia which support cells

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What does it mean if an animal is a regulator?

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They use internal control mechanisms to control internal change in the face of external fluctuation

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What does it mean if an animal is a conformer?

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That they may regulate some environmental variable while conforming to others

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What are some examples in humans that use homeostasis?

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Body temp, blood pH, and glucose concentration

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How does homeostasis work?

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It is maintained at a set point, and a fluctuation above or below this set point serves as a stimulus which is detected by a sensor. A control center then generates output that triggers a response, which helps return the variable to the set point

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Def of negative feedback

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Control mechanism that “damps” a stimulus (homeostasis)

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Def of positive feedback

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Amplifies a stimulus and does not play a major role in homeostasis (ex: helps drive childbirth)

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Difference between endothermic and ectothermic

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Endothermic animals generate heat by metabolism and can maintain a stable body temp even with large fluctuations but is more energetically expensive ; ectothermic animals gain heat from external sources and tolerate greater variation in internal temp poikilotherms)

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Body temp of poikilotherm verse homeotherm

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Poikilotherm varies with its environment ; homeotherm is relatively constant

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Processes by which organisms exchange heat

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Radiation, evaporation, convection, conduction

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Five adaptations that help animals thermoregulate

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Insulation, circulatory adaptation, cooling by evaporative heat loss, behavioral responses, adjusting metabolic heat production

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What does insulation do?

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It reduces the flow of heat between an animal’s body and its environment

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Examples of circulatory adaptations

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Vasodilation is when blood flow int he skin increases, facilitating heat loss ; vasoconstriction is when blood flow in the skin decreases, lowering heat loss

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Countercurrent exchange

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The exchange of heat between fluids flowing in opposite directions (reduces heat loss)

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What is thermogenesis?

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The adjustment of metabolic heat production to maintain body temperature ; It is increases by muscle activity such as moving or shivering

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What is nonshivering thermogenesis?

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Takes place when hormones cause mitochondria to increase their metabolic activity

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What is brown fat?

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It is a type of tissue that is specialized for rapid heat production ; the amount found in human adults depends on the temp of the surrounding environment

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What is torpor?

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The physiological state of decreased activity and metabolism ; driven by ambient temp, helps save energy while avoiding difficult/dangerous conditions

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What is hibernation?

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Long-term torpor that is an adaptation to winter cold and food scarcity ; metabolic rates can be 20 times lower ; biological clock stops during hibernation

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What is estivation?

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Simmer torpor, which enables animals to survive long periods of high temps and scarce water

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What is bioenergetics?

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The overall flow and transformation of energy in an animals

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Autotrophs vs heterotrophs

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Autotrophs harness light energy to build energy-rich molecules ; heterotrophs harvest chemical energy from food

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What are the two major systems for coordinating and controlling responses to stimuli?

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The endocrine and nervous systems ; endocrine coordinates gradual changes that affect the entire body ; nervous is suited for directing immediate and rapid responses to the environment

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