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Week 11 Flashcards

1
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Mechanoreceptors

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Respond to mechanical force

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Chemoreceptors

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Respond to specific chemicals

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3
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Electromagnetic receptors

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Respond to electromagnetic energy and magnetic fields

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Thermoreceptors

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Respond to temperature

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5
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Pain receptors

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Respond to damaged tissue

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What receptors can be found in your skin

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Mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors, pain receptors

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Lateral line system

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Series of small openings in a side of a fish (kind of mechanoreceptor)

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5 types of chemoreceptors in your mouth

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Sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami receptors

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Retina is where you have the

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Actual photo receptors

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10
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Choroid

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Blocks light and feeds the retina

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11
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Sclera

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Protects the eye and gives it shape

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Cornea

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Starts the process of focusing light

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Aqueous humour

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Constantly replaced, feeds the cornea and the lens

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Iris

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Controls the amounts of light that gets in your pupil (pigmented colour of your eye)

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Pupil

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Hole in the iris

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Lens

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Adjusts the focus

17
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Rod

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Responds to a wide range of colours, black and white vision, very sensitive, 125 million rods

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Cone

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Three kinds, respond to green, red or blue light, colour vision, relatively insensitive, 6 million cones

19
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Optic nerve

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No photoreceptors

20
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Ecology

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The study of how organisms interact with their environment, understand the distribution and abundance of organisms, the focus of study is different

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Organism

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Individual living system

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Population

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Group of organisms of the same species living in an area

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Community

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A group of populations in an area

24
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Ecosystem

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A community plus the non living environment in which it lives

25
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Landscape

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A mosaic of connected ecosystems

26
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Biosphere

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The sum of all the planets landscapes

27
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Organismal ecology

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Including evolutionary ecology and behavioural ecology, focuses on how an organisms anatomy, physiology and behaviour meet the challenges imposed by its environment

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Population ecology

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Focuses on the factors that influence population size

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Community ecology

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Focuses on how interactions between species influence community structure

30
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Ecosystem ecology

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Focuses on energy flow and nutrient cycling

31
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Landscape ecology

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Focuses on exchange of energy, materials and organisms among ecosystems

32
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Global ecology

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Focuses on the distribution and function of ecosystems across the biosphere

33
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Behavioral ecology

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The study of the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behaviour

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