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