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1672851203ZoologyThe scientific study of animal life.0
1672851204ReproductionCreation of a cell (asexual) or a child (sexual)1
1672851205Chemical uniquenessLiving systems demonstrate a unique and complex molecular organization2
1672851206Developmentcharacteristic changes that an organism undergo's from its origin.3
1672851207MetabolismLiving organisms maintain themselves by acquiring nutrients from their environment.4
1672851208Environmental interactionAll organisms interact with their environment, the study of this is called ecology.5
1672851209movementliving systems and their parts show precise and controlled movements arising from within the system.6
1672851210paradigmsPowerful theories that guide extensive research.7
1672851211AnimalsAny multicelled heterotroph that ingests other organisms or their tissues, develops through a series of embryonic stages, and is motile during part or all of the life cyle. Most species have epithelial tissues and extracellular matrixes.8
1672851212EukaryoticA cell characterized by the presence of a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. Eukaryotes can be unicellular (protists) or multicellular (fungi, plants and animals).9
1672851213Multi-cellularorganisms made up of more than one cell (plants and animals)10
1672851214HeterotrophicOrganisms that are unable to construct their own food from inorganic sources, and therefore must consume other organisms or organic molecules from the outside environment. Function as consumers or decomposers in food chains.11
1672851215sexual reproductionA reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents12
1672851216MotileCapable of movement13
1672851217ScienceAssumes natural explanations and testable.14
1672851218Scientific methodA series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data (observation), formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis (experiment), and stating conclusions.15
1672851219TheoryA hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data (closest to truth science gets)16
1672851220HMS Beagle, 5 Year voyagewhat was the name of the ship and voyage that Charles Darwin took to study animal life.17
1672851221Darwins Evolutionary theory of Natural Selection.The observation of why things change, providing explanation for origins of adaptation. This theory speaks of reproductive success and survival with limited natural resources due to an organisms advantageous genetic traits as well as population growth from this.18
1672851222Random, Non-Random Random, Non-RandomTwo Components of natural selections are either ___________ or ____________ Production of VARIATION among organisms is ___________. The ____________ components include survival of different traits, and differential survival and reproduction.19
1672851223Populations Change. Unequal Reproduction.What is the 2 word definition for evolution? What about the 2 word definition for Natural Selection?20
1672851224Homologus________ means related or from common decent. (dealing with traits)21
1672851225Phylogenetic TreeA chart showing evolutionary relationships as determined by evolutionary systematics. It contains a time component and implies ancestor-descendant relationships.22
1672851226AnalogyA similarity that comes about separately.23
1672851227SpeciationA process typically caused by the genetic isolation from a main population resulting in a new genetically distinct species.24
1672851228Multiplication of speciesA branch point in the evolutionary tree, it occurs when an ancestrial species has split into two different ones by factors such as geographical splitting followed by evolutionary divergence of the separate parts.25
1672851229Allopatric speciationThe formation of a new species as a result of an ancestral population's becoming isolated by a geographic barrier.26
1683389685Vicariant speciationwhen a physical barrier that creates large, geographically separated populations that diverge into separate species, that is called..27
1683389686Founder EffectGenetic drift that occurs when a few individuals become isolated from a larger population and form a new population whose gene pool composition is not reflective of that of the original population.28
1683389687Sympatric speciationA hypothesis stating individuals can speciate while living in different components of the environment, individuals within a species become specialized for occupying different components of the environment.29
1683439596population geneticsStudies evolution as change in gene frequencies in population.30
1683439597MicroevolutionEvolutionary changes in frequencies of different allelic forms of genes.31
1683439598MacroevolutionEvolution on a grand scale, Origins of new structures and designs, trends, mass extinctions ect.32
1683439599Stabilizing selectionSelects against extreme phenotypes33
1683439600Directional selectionPhenotypic character shifts in one direction34
1683439601Disruptive SelectionSelects against average phenotypes35
1683439602Richard Owen__________ described homology as "the same organ in different organisms under every variety of form and function"36
1683439603Speciation , Millions__________Links Macroevolution to microevolution, rates of this and extinction are measured in __________of years.37
1683439604FiveHow many dramatic Mass extinctions are we aware of?38
1683439605The Permian Extinction225 million years ago, half of the families of shallow water invertebrates and 90% of marine invertebrates disappeared. This was called _______________39
1683439606The Cretaceous Extinction65 million years ago Marked the end of the dinosaurs and many other taxa. This was called _______________40
1683439607Become extinct or give rise to a new speciesWhat are the 2 possible fates that a species can have?41
1683439608HeterochronyEvolutionary change in the timing or rate of an organism's development leading to changes in size and shape42
1683439609PaedomorphosisThe retention in an adult organism of the juvenile features of its evolutionary ancestors.43
1683439610Isolecithal, Mesolecithal, Telolecithal, Centrolecithal__________= Little Yolk, __________= Medium yolk at vegetal pole, __________= Lots of yolk at vegetal pole, __________= Large, Central Yolk44
1683439611Meroblastic Cleavagea type of cleavage in which there is incomplete division of yolk-rich egg, characteristic of avian development45
1683439612holoblastic CleavageA type of cleavage in which there is complete division of the egg, as in eggs having little yolk (sea urchin) or a moderate amount of yolk (frog).46
1683439613CleavageRepeated mitosis describes a _____________, (No cell growth occurs, only subdivision until cells reach regular somatic cell size. At the end a "Blastula" is formed)47
1683439614Gastrulation____________ results in the formation of a second germ layer, It involves an invagination of one side of the Blastula and forms a new internal cavity called an Archenteron or Gastrocoel. The opening to this cavity is called a blastopore.48
1683439615Gastrocoelembryonic cavity forming in gastrulation that becomes the adult gut; also called an archenteron49
1683439616BlastoporeA _________In a gastrula is the opening of the archenteron or embryonic gut that typically develops into the anus in deuterostomes and the mouth in protostomes.50
1683439617Blind gutfood enters and exits from the same opening51
1683439618Complete guttwo openings, a mouth an and anus, The endodermal tube or gut, is surrounded by the blastocoel and has 2 openings (blastopore).52
1683439619Nerve tissue arises from ectoderm, Muscle and connective tissues arise from mesoderm, Epithelial tissues arise from all three germ layers including endoderm.Describe the 3 germ layers.53
1683439620-Proliferation of cells from near the lip of the blastopore into the space between the archenteron and the outer body wall. -pushing of the central region of the archenteron wall into the space between the archenteron and the outer body wall.Describe the 2 ways that the mesoderm forms from the endoderm.54
1683439621Triploblastsanimals with three germ layers55
1683439622Taxonomy_________ is the scientific study involving naming and classifying biological life.56
1683439623Systematics____________ is the scientific study of variation and evolutionary relationships between life forms. Classification is based on evolutionary relationships.57
1683439624Carolus Linnaeus in his publication Systema NaturaeWho proposed the Taxonomic system?58
1683439625Typological species conceptthe discredited, pre-Darwinian notion that species are classes defined by the presence of fixed, unchanging characters shared by all members59
1683439626Biological species conceptDefinition of a species as a population or group of populations whose members have the potential to interbreed in nature and produce viable, fertile offspring, but are not able to produce viable, fertile offspring with members of other populations.60
1683450173Evolutionary Species conceptwhat concept states a species is a lineage evolving separately from others and with its own unitary evolutionary role and tendencies61
1683450174Phylogenic species conceptdefines a species as the smallest group of individuals that share a common ancestor, forming one branch on the tree of life62
1683450175phylogenythe sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms is described as its ______________63
1683450176an Outgroup_________ is a species or group of species from an evolutionary lineage that is known to have di- verged before the lineage that includes the species we are studying (the ingroup)64
1683450177Clades________ share derived characteristics and form subsets within a larger group.65
1683450178Synapomorphya trait that is shared by two or more taxa and inferred to have been present in their most recent common ancestor, whose own ancestor in turn is inferred to not possess the trait is called a__________66
1683450179PleisomorphyAn ancestral or primitive trait. Character that was inherited from a distant or ancient ancestor.67
1683450180Accepts, Rejects, Differ, (difference has important evolutionary implications)Both evolutionary and Cladistic taxonomy ____________ monophyletic ____________ Polyphyletic groups ____________ on accepting paraphyletic groups68
1683450181Common descent, Amount of adaptive evolutionary changeWhat are the 2 main principles in Traditional Evolutionary Taxonomy?69
1683458801Adaptive Zone, (a taxon that represents an adaptive zone is a GRADE)a characteristic reaction and mutual relationship between environment and organism ("way of life") demonstrated by a group of evolutionarily related organism70
1683458802MonophyleticThe word ___________ is Pertaining to a taxon derived from a single ancestral species that gave rise to no species in any other taxa.71
1683458803ParaphyleticThe word ___________ is pertaining to a grouping of species that consists of an ancestral species and some, but not all, of its descendants.72
1683458804TrueTrue or False, Cladistics only recognize Monophyletic taxa73
1683458805Protostomes and DeuterostomesWhat are the two major groups of triploblastic animals (bilateral)?74
1684522191cleavage patterns, fate of blastopore, mesoderm formation, coelom formationwhat are the four identification characteristics that protostomes and deuterostome groups have?75
1684522192Deuterostome embryos. Protostome embryos.________________ develop a complete gut, blastopore becomes the anus while second opening becomes the mouth. _______________, Blastopore becomes the mouth and the anus forms from a second opening.76
1684522193Ectoderm- epithelium and nervous system tissue. Endoderm- Epithelial lining of the digestive tube. Mesoderm- The muscular system, reproductive system, peritoneum, endoskeletonDescribe the 3 germ layers and what they make up.77
1684522194Coelom_____________ is the fluid filled cavity completely lined or surrounded by mesoderm.78
1684522195Schizocoelywhat is it called when a coelom is formed by the splitting of embryonic mesoderm?79
1684522196enterocoelyin deuterosomes; process in which cells in the endoderm divide rapidly and roll outward into the blastocoel to form the mesoderm; mesoderm and coelom form simultaneously80
1684522197Coelomic cavityThis is formed by Schizocoely or enterocoely.81
1684522198InheritedThe method by witch the coelom forms is what type of character? (This is important in grouping organisms based on developmental characteristics)82
16845221993 Tissue layer, 2 CavitiesUpon completion of coelom formation the body has _____ tissue layers and _____ cavities.83
1684522200Acoelomate planWhat is it called when Mesodermal cells completely fill the blastocoel and gut is the only body cavity?84
1684522201PseudocoelomateMesodermal cells line the outer edge of the blastocoel, 2 body cavities formed. Persistent blastocoel (pseudocoelom) and gut cavity pseudocoelom is a false body cavity (only partially lined with mesoderm) this is called a ______________85
1684522202EucoelomateMesodermal cells fill blastocoel, mesoderm splits, The space is called a coelom, it has a true body cavity meaning it is completely lined by mesoderm. 2 body cavities formed (gut and coelom). This is called a ___________.86
1684522203Symmetry_____________ = Correspondence of size and shape of parts on opposite sides of a median plane.87
1684522204Asymmetrical____________ Animals have no general body plan, these animals have no definite shape.88
1684522205RadialCan be divided into equal parts around a central axis. This is called ___________ symmetry.89
1684522206Bilateral____________ symmetry means that the organism can be divided along a sagittal plane into two mirror portions (right and left halves).90
1684522207Anterior, Posterior, Dorsal, Ventral, Medial, Lateralthe regions of bilaterally symmetrical animals include the _________ or head end, _________ or tail end, _________ or back side, _________ or front/belly side, ___________ or midline of the body and __________ or sides91
1684522208Distal, Proximal, Frontal Plane (Coronal plane), Sagittal plane, Transverse plane (cross section)Other ways upon which you can describe the location of a body part in a bilaterally symmetrical animal is: _______ or parts Further from the middle of the body, _________ or parts that are Nearer to the middle of the body, ______________ Divides bilateral body into dorsal and ventral halves, ____________ Divides the body into right and left halves, __________ Divides the body into anterior and posterior portions.92
1684522209Epithelia- Lining Nervous- Control Muscular - Movement Connective -SupportWhat are the 4 types of tissues and a one word definition of there function.93
1684522210CellsWhat is the smallest unit of life? Simplest metazoans, they demonstrate division of labor but are not strongly associated to perform a specific collective function on a more macro scale.94
1684522211TissueCells grouped together to perform a similar function is called a __________.95
1684522212OrgansTissues are assembled into larger functional units called ___________.96
1684522213Organ SystemOrgans work together to perform a common function, this higher level of organization is called a/an__________________97
1684522214Metamere, Somite. Metamerism (segmentation)Serial representation of similar body segments along longitudinal axis of the body. Each segment is a _________ or ___________. _________ permits greater body mobility and complexity of structures and function. ex. Annelids, Arthropods, Chordates98
168452221534, CambrianZoologists recognize ________ major phyla of living multicellular animals. They are survivors of around 100 phyla that appeared 600 million years ago during the _____________ explosion (Burgess Shale) which happened to be the most important evolutionary event in geological history of life.99
1691037073Phagotrophs or holozoicHeterotrophs that feed on visible particles are ___________ or __________ feeders.100
1691037074osmotrophs or saprozoicHeterotrophs that ingest soluble food are ____________ or _________ feeders.101
1691037075pseudopodiaAmebas extend their ___________ to move.102
1691037076Axopodia_________ are thin, pointed pseudopodia that contain a central longitudinal filament of microtubules called an axoneme,103
1691037077TestateAmebas that make shells are called__________.104
1691037078Limax formSome amebas aggregate and move as a unit; this movement is called the ______________105
1691037079Filopodia____________ are thin extensions, usually branching, and containing only ectoplasm.106
1691037080Reticulopodia_________ are long branching pseudopodia that protrude through the shell pores of foraminifera to form a network used in food capture.107
1691037081Hyaline cap_______ is an extension of ectoplasm; endoplasm flows into it, becomes gel-like ectoplasm which anchors cell108
1691037082hydrogenosomeA___________ is a membrane-bound organelle of ciliates, trichomonads and fungi which produces molecular hydrogen and ATP. This organelle is thought to have most likely evolved from mitochondria.109
1691037083Kinetoplasts__________ contain masses of circular DNA molecules and work in association with a kinetosome, an organelle at the base of a flagellum.110
1691037084dictyosomesGolgi complexes are also called ____________.111
1691037085Cytosomemouth-like opening in ciliates/protozoa.112
1691037086cytopygefunctions as expulsion of waste sites in some protozoa, ~anus, also called a cytoproct.113
1691037087Multiple Fission, Sporogony________ is asexual reproduction in which a single cell undergoes many mitotic divisions in the nucleus and a number of daughter cells are produced all at once, this is also called schizogony. If this is preceded by or associated with union of gametes, it is called _________.114
1691037088isogametes, anisogametesWhen gametes all look alike they are called ___________. when dissimilar (most species) it is called ____________.115
1691037089SyngamyFertilization of an individual gamete by another is called _____________.116
1691037090autogamyGametic nuclei arising by meiosis and forming a zygote within the same organism that produced them is a process called_________.117
1691037091Encysment_____________ is to form a protective capsule (cyst) allows survival under adverse conditions.118
1691037092axostyleThe rodlike support structure found in some flagellates is called an _____________.119
1691037093Contractile VacuoleThe cell structure that collects extra water from the cytoplasm and then expels it from the cell is called a ________________.120
1691037094False, they are always multinucleateTrue or False, Ciliates are always mononucleate.121
1691162056Oral GrooveIn a paramecium the ___________ is a depression that runs obliquely backward on the ventral side.122
1691162057Pellicle__________ is a clear elastic membrane that may be ornamented by ridges or papilla-like projections (paramecium)123
1691162058Binary fissionA form of asexual reproduction in single-celled organisms by which one cell divides into two cells of the same size. This is called __________________.124
1691162059Apical complexAll apicomplexans are endoparasites, and their hosts include many animal phyla, the presence of a certain combination of organelles, the __________ __________, distinguishes this phylum.125
1691162060Bradyzoites_________ is the form of toxoplasma gondii (parasite of cats) that stays in cysts in skeletal and cardiac muscle and nerve tissue, form from walled off tachyzoites. It is estimated that 1/3 of the worlds human population carries tissue cysts containing these.126
1691162061Malaria___________ is an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito, the period upon witch the parasites are in the liver is called the incubation period.127
1691162062Merozoites___________ is when the sporozoites undergo schizogony in liver cells and produce thousand of progeny which infect red blood cells.128
1691162063Toxoplasma________ is the causative agent of toxoplasmosis; one of the most widely distributed parasites of humans; cats are definitve host; infection results from consumption of undercooked meat; can infect fetus.129
1691246612ProtozoanA single-celled protist that can be aquatic or parasitic, that has organelles enclosed by a membrane and that can move independently; examples include amebas and paramecia would be classified as a ______________.130
1691246613Poriferawhat phylum are sponges in?131
1691246614Placozoaa phylum of plate like animals that can move on the substrate by laying down mucus and gliding across with cilia their bodies are arranged in three layers one cell thick and can reproduce sexually and asexually and may be related to the dipoblastic organisms. The phylum that best suits these traits is ___________.132
1691246615ChoanoflagellatesProtists that resemble sponge cells in having a microvilli collar around a single flagellum at their anterior end closest living protistan relatives of the animals are ______________.133
1691246616choanocytesCollar cells that line the body cavity and have flagella that circulate water in sponges are called ___________.134
1691246617Spicules_______ are hard needlelike structures that form the skeleton of sponges; can be either calcium carbonate (such as Grantia) or silica (such as the Venus Flower Basket).135
1691246618Spongin___________ is the collagen protein that forms the fibrous skeleton of a sponge, and is the soft and flexible material where the spicules are embedded.136
1691246619SuspensionThe use of the collar (choanocytes) as a filter to feed a sponge is called ______________ feeding.137
1691246620SpongocoelThe central cavity of sponges that water passes into is called the ______________.138
1691246621asconoidvery small, flagella that move water through the spongocoel is called the ____________.139
1691323333syconoidWhich body plan has choanocytes lining the radial canals? (Porifera)140
1691323334Asconoidwhat type of sponges have the simplest organization?141
1691323335apopylesThe Opening through which water passes out of the radial canals into the spongocoel from the beating of choanocytes in sponges is called ______________.142
1691323336Radial CanalsWhere is food ingested by the choanocytes?143
1691323337OsculumA large opening on a sponge through which filtered water is expelled is called an ____________.144
1691323338mesenchymeSponge cells are loosely arranged in a gelatinous extracellular matrix called a _______________. or Mesohyl.145
1691323339Archaeocytesamoeba like cells that can move and change in a sponge; involved in digestion, production of eggs and sperms, and excretion; can become specialized cells that secrete spicules. These are called ____________.146
1691323340pinacocytes_______ are epithelial type cells making up the outer layer of the sponge.147
1691323341Parenchymulafree-swimming larva of sponges is called________.148
1691323342Class DemospongiaeWhat group contains 95% of living sponge species?149
1691363694CnidariaWhat phylum best fits this: Anthozoa, Hydrazoa, Cubozoa, Scyphozoa; Hydra are freshwater, and have no medusa stage; Glides on gas bubble150
1691363695CtenophoraComb Jellies (jellyfish type) which uses cilia (commonly called combs) to swim. Resemble cnidaria but use these cilia. Has decentralized nerve net instead of break like other jellyfish. Main Thing: Cilia using Jellyfish. What phylum describes this?151
1691363696Nematocysts____________In a cnidocyte of a cnidarian, a specialized capsule-like organelle containing a coiled thread that when discharged can penetrate the body wall of the prey.152
1691363697cnidocyte__________ is a specialized cell for which the phylum Cnidaria is named; consists of a capsule containing a fine coiled thread, which, when discharged, functions in defense and prey capture. (stinging cell)153
1691842409Polyp (hydroid) or Medusa (jellyfish)All Cniderian forms fit into one of the two morphological types ____________ or ___________.154
1691842410Polymorphism__________ occurs when a single genotype can express more than one body form.155
1691842411Strobilationa budding process where individual polyps produce stacks of early medusas is called ___________.156
1691842412CnidoblastLike an osteoblast is the primary cell type for bone formation in humans, and a chondroblast develops the cartilage for humans a cnidocyte is properly called a ___________ during the formation of cnidae.157
1691842413cnidocil_______ is a bristle-like structure that extends from one end of a cnidocyte and functions as a trigger.158
1691842414gonagiumThe reproductive polyp of an obelia is called ___________.159
1691842415statocystsgroups of sensory cells that help cnidarians determine the direction of gravity are called ____________.160
1691842416hypostome__________ is a conical structure at the oral end of a hydra that bears the mouth surrounded by tentacles.161
1691842417Basal disk_______ _______ is a small area on hydra that secretes a sticky substance from gland cells, which enables them to adhere to rocks or plants in the water.162
1691842418scyphistomawhen the planula larva escapes from the parent and attaches to a substratum, it develops into tiny polyps called a _______________.163
1691842419protandrousMonoecious species are ___________ meaning they sperm first, then egg)164
1691842420Acoelomorpha____________are triplobalstic and have a ciliated epidermis. they are hard to classify. no anus. they lack a true brain.165
1691842421Platyzoa___________ are tiny and flat animals that move by ciliary motion; platyhelminthes, rotifera, micrognathozoa166
1691842422Mesozoa________ are tiny ciliated animals ranging in size from only .5 mm to 7mm in length. Close to microscopic. Exists within the cephalopod molluscs.167
1691842423acolemate________ means central space filled with tissue-mesoderm, no true body cavity, no coelum in embryo.168
1691842424monoecious________ means having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal. (Acoelomorphs are an example)169
1691842425syncytial tegument_____________________ also known as a neodermis; nonciliated body covering of the three classes in Phylum Platyhelminthes. Multiple nuclei are enclosed within a single cell membrane.170
1691842426pharyngeal sheathwhat encloses, surrounds and protects the pharynx of a platyhelminth digestive tract?171
1691842427protonephridiaThe excretory systems of flatworms, forming a network of dead-end tubules connected to external openings is called its _______________.172
1691842428clonorchis sinensis______________________Causes Oriental Liver Fluke and liver disease; transmission of parasite from the mammal host to humans (cats, dogs, swine)173
1691842429scolex__________ is the head of an adult tapeworm; can contain suckers or hooks.174

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