Reproduction
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Osmoregulation
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100

This is where are sperm stored while they mature.

What is the epididymis?

100

This is the type of asexual reproduction that a hydra undergoes.

What is budding?

100

What type of capillaries does the glomerulus have?

What is fenestrated?

100

This anatomical plane divides the human body into left and right divisions.

Sagittal Plane

100

True or False: amphibians have 2 atria and 1 ventricle.

True.

200

This organ takes over the function of the corpus luteum in pregnancy (about 3 months after fertilization).

What is the placenta?

200

What are the three special characteristics of bird lungs?

1. Continuous Air Flow

2. Unidirectional

3. Posterior first

200

This part of an organ allows for reabsorption of Na, Cl, Ca, water and bicarbonate. 

What is the distal convoluted tubule?


The proximal convoluted tubule does reabsorption of water, electrolytes, nutrients and bicarbonate.*

200

This is the part of the brain that allows for breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, and swallowing.

What is the medulla?
200

Larvae in Echinoderms display this form of symmetry.

Bilateral Symmetry 

300

This hormone is one of the first indications of pregnancy, is released by the zygote, and stimulates the corpus luteum by secreting progesterone.

What is Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG)?

300

What does Pepsin do in digestion?

Converts Proteins into Polypeptides

300

This organ in insects contains interstitium that transports ions and uric acid into lumen in which the urine is either hypoosmotic, isosmotic, and hypertonic. 

What is Malpighian Tubules

300

The first organisms on earth’s surface were likely this.

What are prokaryotic, anaerobic, and heterotrophs?

300

Forcing air into the lungs is an example of this type of ventilation.

What is positive ventilation?

400

This is the number of sperm cells produced from each spermatocyte.

What is four?

400

In the postovulatory phase, this hormone promotes the development of the corpus luteum?

What is luteinizing hormone (LH)?

400

This hormone acts on the Distal convoluted tubule, increases permeability, increases NaCl absorbed, and makes urine more concentrated?

What is Aldosterone?

400

If the Nervous System was a family tree, Schwann cells are found in this integrated classification while oligodendrocytes are found as its sibling.

Schwann cells are found in the PNS and Oligodendrocytes are found in the CNS.

400

These are the types of leukocytes (there are 5 total).

What are neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, monocytes, and lymphocytes?

500

These are the 2 layers surrounding the secondary oocyte.


What are the corona radiata and zona pellucida?

500

An increase in hormones __________ & _________ stimulates ________ cells to produce __________(a protein) which then triggers spermatogenesis.

An increase in hormones Folicular Stimulating Hormone (FSH) & Testosterone stimulates Sertoli/Sustentacular cells to produce Androgen binding protein (ABP)(a protein) which then triggers Spermatogenesis.

500

What are the seven steps IN ORDER to create aldosterone?

1. Enzyme Reaction to create Renin

2. Angiotensin I

3. ACE in pulmonary blood

4. Angiotensin II

5. Vasoconstriction

6. Adrenal Secretion

7. Aldosterone is made

500

These are the reasons a platypus and kangaroo both have pouches, but platypi belong to Clade Protheria and kangaroos belong to Clade Metatheria.

Why is the kangaroo’s pouch used for reproductive purposes, while the platypus pouch is used for digestive purposes? 

Remember:

*Prototheria= egg-laying animals

*Metatheria= pouch bearing mammal

*Eutheria= Mammals having placenta

500

Members of the class Lophotrochozoa are protostomes: this means the blastopore becomes the ___, the cleavage is ___, and the term of coelom formation is ____.

Members of the class Lophotrochozoa are protostomes: this means the blastopore becomes the protostome, the cleavage is spiral and determinate, and the term of coelom formation is schizoscoelous.

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