Animal Physiology
The process of molecules moving along with gradient of concentration or partial pressure.
What is diffusion?
The breaking down of organic matter and releasing the energy it contains for use by organisms.
What is primary production?
The area between the subtidal zone and the continental shelf.
What is the intertidal zone?
The order that all whales, dolphins, and porpoises belong to.
What is Cetacea?
The type of relationship in which one partner benefits and other is not harmed or helped.
What is commensalism?
Part of aerobic respiration that results in the most ATP production.
What is the electron transport chain?
Known as the grandfather of marine biology, since they were one of the first to record observations of marine life.
Who is Aristotle?
This ocean has the highest salinity.
What is the Atlantic Ocean.
The genus and species for crabeater seal.
What is Lobodon carcinophaga?
In a popular example of Batesian mimicry, the black, red, and yellow coloring of the harmless milk snake look strikingly similar to this "underwater" snake.
What is the coral snake?
The two major contractile proteins found in muscles.
What are actin and myosin?
This organism is commonly used in human and animal research to investigate limb and organ regeneration.
What is a starfish?
Best known for finding the Titanic and using technologies he helped develop, including Argon/Jason.
Who is Dr. Robert Ballard?
The material that baleen is made of.
What is keratin?
Family of some of the largest flying birds includes "mute" and "trumpeter" species and weirdly has "teeth" which are actually jagged parts of their bill used for catching and eating fish.
What are swans?
The result from the diaphragm contracting.
What is inhalation?
The creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, who is a Marine Biologist.
Who is Stephen Hillengurg?
The divergent plate boundary between North America and Europe.
What is the mid-Atlantic ridge?
Also known as Rudolphi's rorqual or pollack whale.
What is a sei whale?
Dating back to 3600 BCE in Persia, water-filled "bladder" mattresses were made from an oft-discarded organ of this particular domesticated animal.
What is a goat?
The section of an EKG trace that symbolizes ventricular repolarization, which leads to ventricular relaxation.
What is the t-wave.
Used as a biological maker, green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) were first isolated from this marine creature
What is the jellyfish?
Duration of time between the 2 daily high or low tides.
What is 12 hours and 24.5 minutes.
Type of cetacean well known for its ability to swim backwards.
What is a beluga?
Since they don't have lips to blow on them, Bassian thrushes (bird) draw worms out via moving leaves with this kind of expulsion
What are farts?