Plants' outer protective covering tissue
What is dermal tissue?
Rhythmic contractions of muscles in the wall of the canal that food is moved by
What is peristalsis?
Phase at which chromosomes line up at equator
What is metaphase?
A single circular chromosome (holds condensed DNA)
What is a nucleoid?
Fill in the blank:
Adipose tissue stores _______.
What is fat?
Responsible for adding layers of vascular tissue; aka secondary xylem and phloem
What is the vascular cambium?
Region of the heart that sets the rate and timing at which all cardiac muscle cells contract
What is the sinoatrial node (SA) or pacemaker?
Sub-phase of interphase where DNA replication occurs
What is S phase?
Ribosomes attached to endoplasmic reticulum that make proteins destines for export from cell
What are bound ribosomes?
Name the four main categories of tissues
What are epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissue?
The plant organs A gene activity is responsible for
What are sepals and petals?
Nitrogenous waste excreted by most bony fish
What is ammonia (NH3)?
Mode of reproduction bacteria undergo
What is binary fission?
The protein responsible for making microtubules
What is tubulin?
System that transfers heat between fluids flowing in opposite directions and reduce heat loss
What is countercurrent exchange?
Movement from cell to cell through cytosol
What is symplast or symplast route?
Hormone that makes collecting duct epithelium more permeable to water
What is the antidiuretic hormone?
Regulatory protein that signals cells that it is ready for next phase through phosphorylation
What are cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs)?
Channels through which ions, sugar, and small molecules can pass
Hint: type of junction
What is a gap junction?
The metabolic rate of an endotherm at rest at a comfortable temperature
What is basal metabolic rate (BMR)?
Fill in the blank:
Removing the apical bud stimulates _________ growth and formation of lateral shoots.
What is axillary bud?
The release of a series of other hormones, the last of which activates a non-endocrine target cell.
Hint: involves tropic hormones
What is a hormone cascade pathway?
The non-dividing state the cell enters when not given the "go-ahead" signal during interphase
What is the G0 phase?
Type of enzyme that digests large molecules in lysosome
What are hydrolytic enzymes?
The single-layered arrangement of epithelial cells of varying length
What is pseudostratified?