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This part of the brain integrates sensory information and coordinates a creature’s response to that
information.
What is the Cerebrum?
This is why bottom of a leaf typically is a lighter shade of green than the top of the leaf
What is the spongy mesophyll?
A bird is oiling its feathers
What is preening?
Lampreys belong in this class
What is Agnatha?
This toxin destroys red blood cells and blood vessels
What is hemotoxin?
This cell transports oxygen throughout the body
What are red blood cells?
This property of water governs how water flows upward in a plant
What is water cohesion?
This kind of hair serves as insulation for mammals
What is underhair?
This order contains lizard (people)... or just lizards
What is squamata?
This helps fish feel vibrations in the water
What is the lateral line?
This substance allows sharks to have greater flexibility that other aquatic animals
What is cartilage?
A tree with an abscission layer is __________________
What is deciduous?
DAILY DOUBLE!?!?!?
State the five characteristics that set reptiles apart from other vertebrates.
1. Covered with tough, dry scales
2. Ectothermic
3. Breath with lungs throughout
their lives
4. Three-chambered heart with a ventricle that is partially divided
5. Produce amniotic eggs covered with a leathery shell
This phylum contains plants that must be small
What is the phylum Bryophyta?
The purpose of this is to provide nutrients to the embryo in the seed
What are cotyledons?
A female mates with a male and then lays eggs that develop and hatch. Fertilization takes place here and this is the kind of development.
What is internal fertilization?
What is oviparous development?
The number of this determines whether a seed is a monocot or a dicot
What are cotyledons?
State the six characteristics that set birds apart from other vertebrates.
1. Endothermic
2. Heart with four chambers
3. Toothless bill
4. Oviparous
5. Covered with feathers
6. Skeleton composed of porous, lightweight bones.
These (annoying) organisms aid in the physiology of flowering plants
What are insects?
also
What are some small birds?
This plant structure needs living cells to transport water and nutrients
What is phloem?
Arteries carry blood away from the heart, while veins carry blood back to the heart
What is the difference between arteries and veins?
A botanist found a lot of this kind of tissue on a new part of a plant
What is Meristematic tissue?
State the five characteristics that set mammals apart from other vertebrates
1. Hair covering the skin
2. Reproduce with internal fertilization and usually
viviparous
3. Nourish their young with milk secreted from specialized glands
4. Four-chambered heart
5. Endothermic
These organs found in plants are the male and female reproductive organs
What are the stamen (male) and carpel (female)?
Vascular plants have two kinds of structures for the transport of water and nutrients
What are xylem and phloem?