Animal Structure and Function
Protection and Support
Neural Regulation/The Nervous System
Deuterostomes
Mystery!
100

What kind of epithelial cells are eight sided cubes?

Cuboidal epithelial cells

100

Which type of skeleton does a lobster have?

Exoskeleton

100

What is the all-or-none principle?

The action potential either happens completely or not at all.

100

What mode of reproduction involves laying eggs, where the babies get nourishment from the yolk?

Oviparous reproduction

100

What is a tissue?

Closely associated cells that carry out a function.

200

What kind of cells would you find on your skin, mouth, and esophagus?

Stratified squamous epithelium

200

What kind of burn is sunburn?

First degree

200

Which is faster, saltatory or continuous conduction?

Saltatory

200

Which member of the vertebrates doesn't actually have a vertebrate?

Hagfish or Class Myxini

200

Name two of the types of hominoid locomotion.

1. Brachiation

2. Knuckle walking

3. Upright

300

What kind of epithelium has cells that change shape to distend/stretch? 

Transitional epithelium

300

What classification of bone is the sternum? 

Flat bone

300

What is a synapse?

The junction between two neurons.

300

What are the animals in the order squamata?

Lizards, snakes, worm lizards

300

What is a cnidocyte?

A specialized epithelial cell found in cnidarians that stings.

400

What kind of connective tissue is made of parallel collagen fibers?

Dense regular connective tissue

400

Which stratum is only present in thick skin?

Stratum lucidium

400

What phylums have animals with nerve nets?

Cnidaria, Echinodermata

400

How do monotremes nourish their young?

They lack nipples, so the young lap up milk that is secreted by the mothers mammary glands.

400

What are two differences between Old World and New World monkeys?

1. Old world has no prehensile tail, New World does

2. Old world has a narrow nose with downward nostrils, New world has a flat nose with widespread nostrils

3. Old world is terrestrial and arboreal, new world is only arboreal

4. Old world does use quadrupedal movement, new world does not.

500

What kind of cartilage is supportive and flexible and is found in the pinna, epiglottis and parts of the larynx?

Elastic cartilage

500

How moveable are fibrous joints?

Only slightly, or immoveable

500

Define the cross extensor reflex

500

A platypus and kangaroo both have pouches, but platypi belong to Clade Protheria and kangaroos belong to Clade Metatheria. Why?

The kangaroo’s pouch is used for reproductive purposes, while the platypus pouch is used for digestive purposes.

Prototheria= egg laying animals

Metatheria= pouch bearing mammal

Eutheria= Mammals having placenta

500

What group of birds has no ridge of attachment for wing muscles on their sternum?

Paleognaths

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