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What correctly describes the normal movement for Na+

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Membrane potential favors Na+ in, and concentration gradient also favors it going in

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T/F: The nephrons in the kidney are unable to process urine above 300 mOsm

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F

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Feeding by one insect, a plant is able to build a better defensive mechanism for when later herbivores tries to feed it on it. Because the later species does not affect the earlier one, this relationship is

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Commensalism

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Fruit flies are chosen in a lab. The slowest developing ones are chosen as parents. The time it takes for the fruit flies to develop is long, but their body size is bigger. The time is _______ while the body ________

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Directional selection;Stabilizing selection

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What would happen if the skeletal muscle pump stopped working?

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The Blood would not pump back to the heart

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The cross bridge in the muscle causes what two proteins to come into contact?

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myosin and actin

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Where would you not find a one way valve?

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Between left and right ventricle

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What was the example used in class for character displacement?

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Galapagos Finches

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The one whose activity is altered in order to compensate to bring parameter back into its normal range

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Effector

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The graph of natural selection does not show which of the traits that’s required for natural selection?

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Underlying genetic variability

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A mouse that can’t produce leptin will be _______ than a mouse that can

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Eat more weigh more

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Semelparity means

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Reproduce only once

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Correct order of what happens in the kidney or whatever

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Filtration, reabsorption, secretion, excretion

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A long colon in a koala will enable it to

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Allow for more absorption of water

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The two functions of the gills

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Respiration and osmoregulation

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Which hormone stimulates follicles?

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FSH

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Evidence that crocodiles are paraphyletic is that they’re more related to

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Birds

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The organ of corti

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Is for auditory

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Osmoconformers live in

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Sea water

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What is responsible for pushing filtration from glomerulus and into the Bowman’s capsule?

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I put blood pressure

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____ receptors keep sending signal to CNS as long as stimulus is present

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Tonic

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Which period lasted 250 million - 65 million

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Mesozoic

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Which one is involved in IPSP

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Potassium

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What is an advantage of electrical synapse?

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It’s fast

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What is the semicircular canal responsible for?
Equilibrium
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Know everything the antibodies do
They find and destroy viruses by creating antigen
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T/F AIDS is deadly because it can specifically kill Helper T cells
T
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T/F In mammal reproduction, it’s chromosomal and males have the heterogenetic (XY chromosome)
T
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Oviparity is the development of inside an egg it’s also called
Lecithotrophy
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T/F only insects exhibit temperature dependent sex determination
F
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Which is not a characteristic of Lucy?
Fully bipedal
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Know the definition of sympatric speciation
Some interruptions of gene flow occur without geographic separation.
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Know the definition of homology
the state of having the same or similar relation, relative position, or structure.
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Which percentage closely represents the amount of species that have been extinct
100
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Why do black headed gulls move their white egg shells
To decrease crows eating the eggs
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Which gene affects levels of aggression in humans
Monoamide oxidase gene
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T/F: The two things needed for ions to move across the gradient is membrane (charge) potential and concentration gradient
T
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Which cells release antibodies?
Plasma
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A well-trained athlete has a resting heart rate of only 60 beats/minutes, a stroke volume of 100 mL and respiratory rate of 20 breaths per minute. What is this person’s cardiac output?
6000 mL
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An osmoconformer must live in which of the following environments?
Sea water
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T/F : To mount an effective primary acquired immune response after the first exposure to an antigen may take as long as 1-2 weeks.
T
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T/F : Constriction of the precapillary sphincters would cause the majority of blood to bypass the capillaries and enter the metarteriole.
True
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Some nutrients are considered “essential” in the diets of certain animals because
They cannot be manufactured by the organism
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What appears to be the biggest cause of the Permo-Triassic mass extinction?
Vulcanism
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The closest relative(s) of the tuna is (are):
It’s a tie between the salamander, turtle, and leopard.
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Moon rocks, chondritic meteors, and lead-isotope ratios all indicate that the age of our solar system is about:
4.6 billion years
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Which organism is an example of human-caused extinction of a widespread abundant species?
Passenger pigeon
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When it hears the squeaking of a patio door, a cat rushes to the spot where it usually receives food. This is most likely an example of:
Classical conditioning
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Genetic drift is best described as
Changes in allele frequencies due to sampling error
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One feature that distinguishes imprinting from other forms of learning is that
It occurs during a critical period
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T/F: Melatonin is the hormone responsible for the seasonal timing of singing in the male zebra finch
True
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The loss of responsiveness to a repetitive stimulus that is neither beneficial not harmful is called
Habituation
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A single allelic substitution at the vasopressin-receptor gene in meadow voles affected which behavior?
Pair bonding
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T/F: In theory, heritability can only range from zero to one
True
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Trial-and-error learning is also
Operant conditioning
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A gene in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium has only two alleles, A and a, and one is four times more common than the other. What is the total expected percentage of the population that will be heterozygotes?
32
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Know the definition of intersexual selection
Ex: female choice
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Know the definition of intersexual selection
Ex: female choice
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When did we hybridize with neanderthals
Hybridizations occurred as recently as 50-60 thousand
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When did we migrate to the America
20 thousand years ago

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