Day 4 Flashcards

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Nematoda

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Roundworms

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Ocean currents

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A directional movement of ocean water; surface current result from study winds over the ocean surface; deep currents result from density variations due to temperature and salinity differences

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Parasitism

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A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed. a relationship between two species in which one species ,the parasite ,benefits from the other species ,the host, which is harmed

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Petromyzontida

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Lampreys. Jawless aquatic vertebrates with reduced vertebrae. Typically feed by attaching to a live fish and ingesting it’s blood

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5
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Photo period

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Response to the changing lengths of day and night

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Platyhelminthes

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Called flatworms. Develop from three Germ layers, have bilateral symmetry, coelomates, thin flat body.

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Population

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A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area

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Porifera

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Sponge phylum asymmetrical organisms that lack tissues

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Primary consumer

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An organism that eats producers

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Primates

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An animal order including lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, apes and human beings

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Producer

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An organism that can make its own food

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Protostome

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Animal with a mouth that develops from the opening in the gastrula

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Radial symmetry

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Body plan in which any number of imaginary plane drawn through the center of the body could divided into equal halves

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Rainshadow effect

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Precipitation falls on the Windward side of a mountain range, resulting in lush vegetation and a warm moist climate on one side but a desert/dryer area on the Leeward side

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Range

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Measure of dispersion

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Realized niche

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When a species occupies a smaller niche then it would in the absence of competition. Parts of a species fundamental niche that it actually uses limited by competition

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Red and green algae

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The closest relatives of land plants. Endosymbiosis. Photosynthetic

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Relative abundance

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The proportion each species represents of all individuals in the community

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Reptilian

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Turtles snakes lizards crocodiles alligators. First to lay eggs on land

20
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Rotifera

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microscopic rotifers, Pseudocoelom. Complete digestive tract. Filter feeders. Parsynogenesis.

21
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SAR Clade

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One of the four supergroups of eukaryotes; contains a large extremely diverse collection of Protists from three major subgroups; stramenopiles, aveolates, Rhizarians.

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Secondary consumer

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A member of the trophic level of an ecosystem consisting of carnivores that eat herbivores

23
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Shannons diversity index

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Study on paper

24
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Species distribution

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Plant and animal species are not distributed evenly throughout the various eco-regions of the world most of the different species of plants and animals can be found in tropical regions and more specifically in the rain forest as you move closer to the polls of the earth there is less biological diverse city

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Species richness

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The number of different species in a community

26
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Tetrapoda

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“4 footed” ones class Amphibia reptilia aves mammalia

27
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Unikonts

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Very diverse group that includes protist fungi and animal

28
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Walled spores are produced in sporangia

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Spore walls contain sporopollenin, makes them resistant to hard environment