Exam Flashcards
What is Plasma Made of
Water makes up 90% of plasma. The function of it is that you need volume when the heart is pumping so we can generate pressure. It’s a very good solvent and polar so it can transport a lot.
Plasma proteins make up 7%. These molecules have a lot of functions. Albumin helps maintain blood volume by maintaining a concentration by creating osmotic gradients to suck water back in. Antibodies produced by WBC and fight infections. Fibrinogen helps clotting. PP are found in plasma so it has access to whole body.
Majority of things transported is found in plasma. The function of salts is to maintain BP and muscle contraction. It also makes sure that not too much osmosis happens. Gases for cellular respiration. Nutrients as energy sources. Nitrogen wastes through kidneys.
How oxygen is transported and delivered
- Low pressure acts as a vacuum
- Move into nasal cavity
- Over turbinate bones
- Down pharynx
- Past the epiglottis through the glottis
- Over the vocal cords in the larynx
- Into the trachea
- Branch to left or right broncos
- Further branching into bronchioles
- Down into an alveolus
- Dissolve in moisture
- Diffuse into blood plasma
- Through red blood cell membrane attached to iron in haemoglobin
Hemoglobin gives-up its oxygen as red blood cells travel through capillaries in tissues where there is a low content or partial pressure of oxygen. The partial pressure of oxygen represents the level of dissolved oxygen in plasma.
Red Blood Cells
Erythrocytes: Transport O2 and help transport CO2
Since they are small they are more efficient of diffusing oxygen in, SA/V
Bends and twists to get through capillary, flexible
Has a protein called hemoglobin that is very strong to bind O2.
Eosinophils
Phagocytize parasitic worms, proteins (antigen-antibody complex) and allergens, pick up red stain
Sometimes the proteins they respond to are not harmful, allergens (allergies).
Co-Dominance
When the two traits from parents appeared to be expressed side by side in the same individual, they referred to the phenomenon as “co-dominance”. Co-dominant alleles are given capital letters with superscripts.
Three phenotypes (one per genotype) and the third one is a combination of the other two
Allopatric Speciation
Why digestive system is necessary for animals
Nutrition is a life process and all cells need it from their environment for energy and for growth and repair.
Xylem transport
The xylem transport is a passive transport that transfers water and minerals from the root xylem to the leaves of the plant. Physical forces such as cohesion/adhesion and tension support this transport. When there is loss of water in the leaves (called transpiration), there is tension in the water column from the roots to the leaves. Once the water and minerals enters the root xylem, it creates a positive pressure (root pressure) that pushes the sap column upwards to the area of negative pressure. Adhesion aides this as it is the tendency of water molecules to stick to other hydrophilic molecules like cellulose, this helps keeps the water column intact during transport.
Adaptive Radiation
when many species (instead of two) are formed from one ancestor: response to different selective pressures
HW Conditions
- Very large popultaion- sampling errors could change population if it were small
- No immigration or emmigration- alleles can not enter or leave
- No mutations- alleles do not change spontaneously
- No Natural Selection- no allele is favoured relative to any other allele
- Random mating- individuals have equal chances of mating with eachother, so alleles get fully mixed
Cells that migrate outside the blood and ingest foreign cells are called _______ and ______.
Cells that migrate outside the blood and ingest foreign cells are called ____monocytes___ and ___macrophages___.
Violation #4 of HW
Random Mating
Non random mating (not same as unequal mating)
- does not change allelic frequencies, changes distributio of those alleles in genotypes
Assortive Mating- like choses like, higher homozygosity
Dissortive Mating- opposites attract, increased heterozygosity
Violation #2 of HW
Mutations
- to cause changes in the gene pool by creating new alleles
- changes allele frequency but not rapid enough to cause change in population
- NON ADAPTIVE
Evidence for Evolution
- Fossil evidence- relative age, absolute age
- Anatomical
- Embryology (related organisms have similar development patterns because of common ancestor, all vertebrate embryos inherit the same basic genetic plan for development)
- Anatomical Homology (characteristics or anatomy from ancestor by more than one descendant, homologous structure/traits)
- Vestigial structure (inherited from common ancestor but useless, function lost overtime)
- Convergence/ Analogous Structure (describe the acquisition of the same biological trade and unrelated lineages, looks like because of similar environmental requirements, similar functions at a different anatomy)
- Biochemistry and Molecular Structure
Genetic sequence, immune response and proteins structure all show increasing differences of common ancestors become more remote
- Biogeography- continental drift, adaptive radiation
- Comparative behaviour
Multi-alleic genes
A pair of genes with more than 2 alleles
Platelet
Used to be in a megakaryocyte, each thrombocyte is filled with a protein called thromboplastin/ prothrombin activator as it activates clotting mechanisms
Clot blood to prevent blood from leaking out of your body
Darwinian Scenario
WBC’s that produce antibodies to fight disease organisms are called ____________.
WBC’s that produce antibodies to fight disease organisms are called _______lymphocytes_____.
Monocyte (macrophage)
Put a small protein on the surface of the cell that a particular bacteria is in the body, helper of a lymphocyte
Ventilation of the mammalian lung
Ventilation is the movement of air. Physical forces such as adhesion and cohesion support this transport. When the diaphragm contracts it moves down and flattens out and at the same time external intercostal muscles contract, which rotates the rib cage outward. These two motions increase the volume of the chest cavity. The cohesive attraction of water molecules makes moist, hydrophilic surfaces that adhere strongly to each other. The moist pleura of the lungs then adheres to the moist pleura that lines the chest cavity, causing the lungs to increase in volume as the cavity does.
p+q=1
frequency of dominant or recessive allele
General path taken by blood
Oxygen-poor blood: superior vena cava > right atrium > right ventricle > pulmonary artery
Oxygen-rich blood: pulmonary veins > left atrium > left ventricle > aorta
Neutrophils
Most abundant, Fight infections, are a neutral colour when stain, phagocytize (eat) pathogens
Neutrophil will change shape of cell to get pathogen into the membrane, cell will then digest it and remove the waste. Dies once it phagocytizes. (Flattens itself, squeezes through capillaries and cells to reach the layer of skin to fight bacteria)