Exam 2 Flashcards
Describe the Steps of how Action Potential is translated by the Brain (3)
- Sensor Stimulation
- Stimulus is translated to AP this is the common language of the nervous system
- Action Potential is translated by the Brain
When the Optic Nerve is stimulated with Photons, how is the Action Potential Perceived?
As Light
When the Auditory Nerve is Stimulated with Sound waves, how is the Action Potential Perceived?
As Sound
What is the Common Language of the Nervous System? and needs to be translated by the?
Action Potentials, Brain
Chemoreceptors respond to? and examples include? (2)
Chemicals
Taste and Smell
Mechanoreceptors respond to? and examples include? (4)
Mechanical Manipulation
Mammalian Ear, Lateral line in Fish, Stretch Receptors in Muscles, Touch Receptors.
Photoreceptors respond to? and a example include?
Photons
Photoreceptors in the eyes
Thermoreceptors respond to?
Sensitivity to Cold and Hot
Nociceptors are?
Pain Receptors
When there is a Intense Stimulation of a receptor, this can be preceived as?
Pain
Electroreceptors respond to? and what animal has these types of receptors?
Electrical fields
Sharks
Itch receptors respond to?
Chemicals like Histamines
Magnetoreceptors respond to How are these used in animals?
Magnetic fields
Birds and Turtles navigate using the earth’s magnetic field.
What opens a channel that releases neurotransmitters before generating AP? Taste buds or Smell Receptors?
Taste Buds
What uses Olfactory receptors which is a neuron. When something is smelled it creates an AP that goes directly from the neuron to the brain.
Taste buds or Smell Receptors?
Smell Receptors
What responds to deep pressure?
Pacinian corpuscle
What responds to Light Pressure?
Meissner’s corpuscle
What type of receptor has Ion channels that open and close due to pressure used against them?
Mechanoreceptors
Where are Hormones produced?
Endocrine System
Glands and Hormones-
Exocrine produces what type of products and from where? WHat does it Not Produce?
Seat Glands, Salivary Glands
Hormones
Endocrine releases the Hormones where and has No….
Circulatory System and Ducts
Phylum Platyhelminthes features? (7)
Triploblastic, Bilateral,
Have NO Skeletal Circulatory and Respiratory system.
Are parasitic and free-living.
Protostomes
When a animal Lacks a head but have sensors on the side of their body to make up for the lack of a head is called?
Bilateral
When a animal is Triploblastic this means it has? (3)
Mesoderm, Endoderm, and Ectoderm
How do planarians ingest their food?
When the Pharynx elongates it will squeeze the muscles around the pharynx to suck up food particles into the Gastrovascular cavity.
What does the Flame Cell do?
The Flame Cell regulates the bodies fluid through Osmoregulation/Excretion
What is the Oral Sucker used for?
To Pump Bile into the Mouth
What does the Uterus store?
Fertilized Eggs
What does the Ovary produce?
Eggs
What does the Vitellaria (Yolk Gland) produce?
Yolk
What do the Seminal Receptacles store and from where?
Sperm from the Fluke
What does the Testis store?
Sperm
What does the Gonophore Store? and aids in what type of Fertilization?
Stores both Eggs and Sperm as well as Sperm from Fluke for Cross-Fertilization.
Diverticular Disease- Uncommon in people before the age of?
40
Diverticular Disease is seen more than 50% of people over the age of? and where?
60 The U.S.
Define Diverticulitis and what it can causes? (3)
Inflammation of the Diverticula- Rupture, Bleeding and Infection
Define Diverticulosis-
Formation of Diverticula
What are (3) Physical Features Rotifers and Nematodes share?
Space for Reproductive Organs
Have Hydrostatic Organ
Complete Digestive System
What does the Hydrostatic Organ do?
Adjusts the fluid in the body.
What is a True Coelom completely surrounded by?
Mesoderm
Define Scolex
The head region with suckers with a mouth surrounded by hooks
Define Proglottids, type of fertilization and Reproduction
Male and Female reproduction structure asexual cross-fertilization
Define Strobila
Section of Proglottids
Rotifers and Nematodes have these (3) Characteristics
Have space for Reproductive Organs
Have a Hydrostatic Organ
Have a complete Digestive system
Rotifers and Nematodes are also (2)
Pseudocoel and Bilateral
Explain the difference between a True Coelom and a Pseudocoel.
A true Coelom is completely surrounded by the Mesoderm and the
Pseudocoel is in-between the Endoderm and Mesoderm
Rotferia have these (5) Characteristics
Benthic (Bottom Dwellers)
Space for Reproduction Organs
Hydrostatic Organ
Complete Digestive System
Bilateral
The Rotifera has these (3) structures for Feeding
Corona, Mastax and Cloaca
What is a Cloaca?
Combined opening for both Urine and Fecal Matter
What is the Reproduction of Rotifera?
Amictic and Mictic
What is the General information about Nematoda’s? (3)
500,000 species
Found Everywhere
Many parasitic
Form and Function of Nematodes (Worms)- (5)
Cylindrical
Cuticle made up of Collagen
Movement through thrashing due to Longitudinal muscles
Dioecious (Male and Female)
In internal fertilization, the sperm moves via pseudopods.
Define Amictic Reproduction-
No mixing of Genetics all Female Diploid cells pop. Creates Copies of themselves and still produce eggs. Involves Parthenogenesis.
Define Mictic Reproduction-
Forms two Haploid Cells through Meiosis. Males are Haploid Cells, and the Females are Diploid Cells. This is called Haplo-Diploid gender Determination.
Rotifers can have either _______ or ________ Reproduction
Asexual or Sexual
What is the Mantle Cavity used for?
Respiration and Feeding
What is the Mantle used for?
Protection
Polyplacophora (Chitons) have theses (4) things
Dorsoventrally flattened
8 Plates
Cling to Intertidal Rocks
Water Flows over the Gills
What are the (6) Characteristics of Gastropoda? (Snails)
Nudibranchs (Naked Gills)
Eat Cnidaria (Jellys)
Has Nematocysts in cnidocytes
Has Radula Tooth w/Poison
Harpoon Prey
Some Gastropoda are lethal to us (Cone Snail)
What are the (3) Characteristics of Bivalvia? (Clams)
2 Valves in the Shell, closes shell with an adductor
Opens via hinge Ligament
Opens Valve to draw water in through the incurrent siphon to cross over the gills
What is the Physcial Structure of Bivalvia? (5)
Foot with Gonads and intestines the foot is used for movement
Gills
Mantle and Cavity
Shell has Valves
Filter Feeding
What is the Reproduction of Bivalvia for External Fertilization?
Gametes out via excurrent siphon
What is the Reproduction of Bivalvia in Freshwater Internal Fertilization?
Specialized Veliger, (Glochidia= Parasitic Larva) Is developed in the Gills and then is attached to the gills of a fish. Which will drop off in a few weeks.
What are the 4 Animals classified as Cephalopoda? Also regarding if they have a shell
Octopus- No Shell
Squid- No Shell
Nautilus- Shell
Cuttlefish- (Cuttle “Bone”)