These invasive scars extend beyond the boundaries of the original wound.
What is a keloid?
100
What does pain mean?
Cells are being damaged
100
This is the fastest healing tissue in the human body.
What is the oral mucosa.
100
If a fetus is over nourished during gestation and malnourished after birth, this event will occur
What is a mismatch event?
100
The protein hormone relaxin is most closely related to which hormone
What is Insulin
200
This process, which stops the bleeding from an injured vessel, is a precursor to the three-step healing process.
What is hemostasis?
200
Pre-programmed genetic fears that correspond to old threats
What is inherited fears?
200
In this country, the fishermen allowed the dogs to lick their wounds.
What is Fiji
200
This concept aims to prepare individuals for the environment he/ she will live in. However, if a mismatch event occurs, then disease will occur later in life.
What is the thrifty phenotype?
200
In males relaxin is associated with sperm motility, what other essential role does it play in male reproduction
What is testicular descent
300
Dermal fibroproliferative disorders are characterized by an abundance of this protein.
What is collagen?
300
Name three types of play
1. great heights
2. high speed
3. dangerous tools
4. dangerous elements
5. rough and tumble
6. disappear or become lost
300
Name just one of the factors present in human saliva that aids in the process of wound healing.
What is Histatin, Nitric Oxide, EGF’s, or Tissue factors.
300
The fetuses decision to send energy for growth to the developing brain or to the body.
What is a tradeoff?
300
In females relaxin has been selected for the growth and differentiation parenchymal cells of the mammary glands. What is an evolutionary tradeoff of this selection
What is breast cancer
400
Young men of the Sepik River tribe undergo cutting ceremonies to celebrate this creature.
What is a crocodile?
400
The inefficient and somewhat repetitive movement in various sequences for no apparent purpose
What is play
400
These two types of animals were used in testing the role of saliva and its factors in wound licking.
What is dogs and rats.
400
Preeclampsia is a disease in which mother’s experience high blood pressure during pregnancy and decreased blood flow to the fetus. This condition will lead to an infant with ____ (low or high)____ birth weight.
What is low birth weight?
400
In wild Soay sheep relaxin mediates horn size. The allele that codes for low levels of relaxin causes small horns. What is the evolutionary tradeoff of small horns as compared to large horns
What is less reproductive success but increased fitness
500
Lower vertebrates and invertebrates, such as salamanders, exhibit this type of wound healing.
What is scarless (or regenerative) healing?
500
a set of motivated behaviors that both provide the child with an exhilarating positive emotion and expose the child to the stimuli they previously have feared
What is risky play?
500
There are three different, paired salivary glands. Name just one.
What is parotid, submandibular, or sublingual salivary glands.
500
Propose a proximate explanation for cardiovascular disease. (Does not need to be scientifically accurate, just a general idea)
Multiple answers are possible! Please share what you think!
500
The evolutionary senescence theory of aging supports the concept of losing reproductive abilities in order to aid in the intergenerational raising of young.