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The 2 components of photoreceptors.
What are rods and cones?
100
This limits the frequency range of human hearing.
What is flexibility of the basilar membrane?
100
Sensory apparatus in the ear consisting of the casilar membrane, hairs cells with associated sensory neurons, and tectorial membrane.
What is the organ of Corti?
100
This hormone lowers calcium level by inhibiting loss of calcium from bones.
What is calcitonin?
100
The number of bones in the human body.
What is 206?
200
Responsible for the colorblind trait.
What is X Chromosome?
200
Structure in which the basilar membrane is found.
What is the Cochlea?
200
Focusing images is accomplished by the contraction and relaxation of these muscles.
What are ciliary muscles?
200
The last stage of sperm formation.
What is Spermatazoa?
200
This man recently stepped down as president of Egypt.
Who is Hosni Mubarak?
300
Term describing a lack of red cones.
What is Protanopia?
300
Vibrations cause this to depolarize and stimulate action potentials in sensory neurons.
What are hair cells?
300
Shrews use this form of lightless vision to maneuver below the ground.
What is sonar?
300
The endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm are the 3 primary layers formed in this stage of development.
What is Gastrulation?
300
The capital city of Wyoming.
What is Cheyenne?
400
Both rods and cones have this organelle.
What is mitochondria?
400
The process in which certain animals emit sounds and then determine how long it takes these sounds to reach an object and return to them.
What is echolocation?
400
These connect the middle ear to the throat to equalize pressure between the middle ear and the external environment.
What are Eustachian tubes?
400
When females produce offspring from unfertilized eggs.
What is the Parthenogenesis?
400
5280 Feet.
What is a mile?
500
These are the cells that connect the bipolar cells in the eye to the optic nerve.
What are Ganglion Cells?
500
The most abundant of all orders of mammals, this animal has better adaptation to the darkness than nocturnal birds of prey.
What are bats?
500
Pressure waves are transferred here after pushing against the round window in the terrestrial vertebrate ear.
What is the middle ear cavity?
500
Hormone thought to cause love.
What is oxytocin?
500
This athlete won 8 gold medals in the 2008 summer Olympics.
Who is Michael Phelps?