This type of sheath, made from glial cells, increases the conduction velocity of axons.
What is Myelin
100
The study of population processes.
What is demography
100
_________is movement over long distances in response to shifts in climate or resource availability.
What is migration
100
The biological term for "egg-laying."
What is oviparity?
100
_____________ is a response to injury in which blood vessels dilate, leaky capillaries cause plasma to move into tissues, phagocytes engulf invaders and cytokines signal the brain to produce fever.
What is inflammation?
200
This part of the brain controls the pituitary gland and regulates physiological functions such as hunger and thirst.
What is the hypothalamus
200
An ecological ________ is where a species lives and what it does (what it eats, produces, how it affects other species).
What is a niche
200
A _________ is a stereotypical, innate behavior that is performed without learning and cannot be interrupted or modified by learning.
What is fixed action pattern
200
The cells of a blastula are called __________.
What are blastomeres?
200
______________ is fluid derived from interstitial tissues that moves through the body and is filtered in nodes of the same name.
What is lymph?
300
This lobe of the brain processes visual information and translates it into language.
What is the occipital lobe
300
This type of species has a disproportionately large effect on an ecosystem relative to its biomass (or abundance).
What is keystone
300
If a circadian clock is allowed to run according to its natural period, it it said to be _____________.
What is free-running?
300
_______________ is a rapid series of cell division, but no cell growth in which an embryo becomes a ball of small cells.
What is cleavage?
300
Proteins that bind specifically to invading substances identified by the immune system.
What are antibodies?
400
When action potentials appear to jump from node to node on an axon, it is called _________ conduction.
What is saltatory?
400
This type of survivorship curve represents species with many offspring, low juvenile survivorship and little or no parental care. (e.g., most insects and annual plants).
What is type 3
400
If a swallow initiates migration because it senses changing day length, this is a __________ cause/explanation for the migration behavior.
What is proximate
400
___________ produces new individuals that form from the bodies of older animals.
What is budding?
400
________________ is a type of animal that can behave either as an ectotherm or an endotherm (e.g. hibernators).
What is a heterotherm?
500
This system, under the skin of fish, is lined with stereocilia that bend as water flows over them, providing information about movement of the animal and other animals nearby.
What is the lateral-line?
500
____________ is a species interaction in which one participant is unaffected while the other is harmed.
What is ammensalism?
500
A ________ of performing a behavior is the benefit an animal forfeits by not performing other behaviors during the same time.
What is a (missed) opportunity cost?
500
Cloning experiments have demonstrated that no genetic information is lost as a cell passes through developmental stages, a phenomenon known as ____________-.
What is genomic equivalence?
500
Sharks and tuna have these in their muscles to be able to move quickly in warm water.