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What are essential nutrients?

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Nutrients required by cells that must be obtained from dietary sources

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What does an animal’s diet provide?

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  1. Chemical energy to convert to ATP
  2. Organic building blocks
  3. Essential nutrients
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What are the 4 classes of essential nutrients?

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  1. Amino Acids
  2. Essential fatty acids
  3. Vitamins
  4. Minerals
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What are vitamins and how are they categorized?

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Vitamins are organic molecules required in our diet in small amounts. There are fat and water soluble vitamins

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What are minerals?

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Simple inorganic nutrients usually required in small amounts

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What is malnutrition?

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The result of long-term absence from the diet of one or more essential nutrients

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How are mineral deficiencies prevented?

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Animals can consume salt, minerals, shells or stones

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What is undernutrition?

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The result of a diet that does not prevent enough chemical energy. An undernourished organism will burn it’s fat and eventually the rest of its body

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What are the 4 stages of food processing?

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ingestion, digestion, absorption and elimination

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What is ingestion?

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Eating or feeding

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What is digestion?

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The process of breaking food down into molecules small enough to absorb

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What are the two types of digestion?

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Chemical: Splits food into small molecules that can pass through membranes

Mechanical: Increases the surface area of food, includes chewing. Typically comes before chemical digestion

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What is absorption?

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The uptake of nutrients by body cells

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What is elimination?

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The passage of undigested material out of the digestive system

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How do most animal conduct digestion and why?

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In compartments to reduce the risk of digesting its own cells and tissues

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What are the two types of digestion?

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Intracellular: Food particles are engulfed by phagocytosis

Extracellular: Digestion of foods outside the cell

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What is a gastrovascular cavity?

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A cavity in animals with simple body plans that function in digestion and distribution of nutrients

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What is an alimentary canal?

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A part of the digestive tract of complex animals with a mouth and an anus with specialized regions that carry out digestion in a stepwise fashion

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What is bioenergetics?

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The flow and transformation of energy in an animal that determines its nutritional needs

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What is metabolic rate?

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An animal’s energy use per unit of time

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How is metabolic rate determined?

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Monitoring animal’s rate of heat loss, amount of O2 consumed or amount of CO2 produced

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What is minimum, basal, and standard metabolic rate?

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Minimum: The minimum metabolic rate for basic cell functions

Basal: Minimum metabolic rate of a nongrowing endotherm that is at rest, has an empty stomach, and is not experiencing stress

Standard: (BMR) The minimum metabolic rate of a fasting, nonstressed ectotherm at a particular temperature

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What is the function of insulin and glucagon? Where are they produced?

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To maintain glucose levels, they are produced in the pancreas

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What makes insulin levels rise?

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A carbohyrate-rich meal

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How is glycogen synthesized?
Through glucose entering the liver
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What happens with glucose concentrations are low?
Glucagon stimulates the liver to break down glycogen and release glucose into the blood
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What is diabetes mellitus?
A diseased caused by deficiency of insulin or a decreased response to insulin in target tissues. Cells are unable to take up glucose to meet their metabolic needs and fat becomes the main substrate for cellular respiration
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What are types 1 and 2 diabetes?
1: An autoimmune disorder where the immune system destroys the pancreatic beta cells 2: Diabetes characterized by a failure of target cells to respond normally to insulin
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What causes diabetes?
Type 2 is hereditary, excess body weight and lack of exercise increase risk
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Which mechanisms regulate appetite?
Ghrelin: Hormone secreted by stomach wall, triggers a feeling of hunger before meals Insuline/PYY: Hormone secreted by the small intestine after eating, they suppress appetite Leptin: A hormone produced by fat tissue, suppresses appetite and regulates body fat levels
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How do enzymes in chemical digestion break things down?
Enzymatic hydrolysis
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Which cells in the body use diffusion?
Small, nonpolar molecules use diffusion. It is only efficient over long distances
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What decides diffusion time?
Diffusion time is proportional to the square of the distance traveled
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What are gastrovascular cavities?
A cavity that some animals have instead of a circulatory system that functions in digestion and distribution of substances throughout the body
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What is true about all circulatory systems?
They have circulatory fluid, a set of interconnecting vessels and a muscular pump(heart). They are all either open or closed
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What is an open circulatory system?
Circulatory fluid bathes organs directly, there is no distinction between circulatory and interstitial fluid, making a general body fluid called hemolymph
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What is a closed circulatory system?
The circulatory fluid called blood is confined to vessels and is distinct from interstitial fluid. One or more hearts pumps blood through the vessels, chemical change occurs between blood, interstitial fluid, and body cells.
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What circulatory system do human and other vertebrates have? How do they work?
A closed circulatory system called a cardiovascular system. The 3 main blood vessels are called arteries, veins and capillaries(blood flow is one way in these cells)
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What are arteries?
Blood vessels that branch in arterioles once inside organs and carry blood away from the heart to the capillaries
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What are capillary beds?
Networks of capillaries that are the site of exchange between blood and interstitial fluid
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What are venules?
Venules converge into veins and return blood from the capillaries to the heart
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What does blood enter and exit from in a heart?
Blood enters through an atrium and is pumped out by a ventricle
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What is single circulation?
Circulation with a two-chambered heart where blood leaving the heart passes through two capillary beds before returning
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What is double circulation?
Circulation where oxygen-poor and oxygen-rich blood is pumped separately from the left and right sides of the heart
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What is the systemic circuit?
Oxygen-rich blood delivers oxygen through the systemic circuit
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How does blood pressure compare in single and double and single circulation?
Double circulation maintains higher blood pressure in organs than single circulation
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How does oxygen poor blood pick up oxygen?
Through the lungs(reptiles and mammals) and the lungs+skin(amphibians)
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How is the heart of reptiles/amphibians typically structured?
3 Chambered: Ventricle pumps blood into a forked artery
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How is the heart of mammals and birds usually structured?
4 chambered heart: 2 ventricles and atria, one side for O2 rich and O2 poor blood
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What is the endothelium?
The epithelial layer that lines blood vessels, it's smooth and minimizes blood flow resistance
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Why do capillaries have thin walls?
To facilitate exchange of substances
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How are the walls of arteries and veins different?
Arteries have thicker walls than veins to accommodate high pressure of blood pumped from heart
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What influences blood flow? Where is the velocity of blood flow slowest?
Blood vessel diameter influences blood flow. Velocity is slowest in capillary beds as a result of high resistance and large cross-sectional area, and for exchange of materials
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How does blood pressure influence blood flow?
Blood flows from high pressure to low pressure
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What is systole and systolic pressure?
Systole is the contraction phase of the cardiac cycle. Pressure at the time of the ventricle contraction is called systolic pressure
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What is diastole?
The relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle, always lowers than systolic pressure
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What is vasoconstriction?
The contraction if smooth muscle in arteriole walls to increase blood pressure
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What is vasodilation?
The relaxation of smooth muscles in arterioles to decrease blood pressure
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What causes fainting?
Inadequate blood flow to the head
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How does gravity affect blood pressure?
It causes a need for more systolic pressure to pump against it
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What mechanisms alter blood flow in capillary beds?
1. Vasoconstriction/vasodilation of the arteriole that supplies that bed 2. Precapillary muscles that open and close to regulate blood flow
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What is the lymphatic system?
A system that returns fluid called lymph that leaks out of capillary beds, it drains into the veins in the neck. The lymph vessels prevent backflow of fluid
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What is partial pressure?
The pressure exerted by a particular gas in a mixture of gases
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What causes gas to diffuse?
Gas always diffuses form high to low partial pressure
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How does gas cross respiratory surfaces?
Diffusion
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How are respiratory surfaces typically structured?
They tend to be large, thin, and always moist
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What is ventilation?
The movement of the respiratory medium over the respiratory surface
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What is a countercurrent exchange system?
A system used in fish gills where blood flows in the opposite direction to water passing over the gills, making the O2/CO2 exchange efficient
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What is the tracheal system?
A system in insects that consists of a network of air tubes that branch throughout the body that can transport O2 or CO2
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What is the structure of lungs? Which organisms use lungs?
Lungs are an infolding of the body surface, usually divided into numerous pockets. The circulatory system transport gases between lungs and the body. Vertebrates that lack gills use lungs
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Where does air pass when a mammal breathes?
Air passes through the larynx, trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles to the alveoli(air sacs at tip of bronchioles) where gas exchange occurs
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How are sounds created in mammals?
Air passes over the vocal chords
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What are surfactants?
Secretions that coat the surface of the alveoli to prevent contamination
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How does the respiratory system stay clean?
Cilia and mucus line the epithelium of air ducts and move particles up to the pharynx(the mucus escalator) where particles can be swallowed into the esophagus
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Why do the lungs have sacs?
To increase surface area
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How are hormones spread throughout the body?
The go into the interstitial fluid, then enter he circulatory system
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How is hemolymph moved?
Heart contractions put in through he veins into spaces surrounding the organs, and relaxation draws it back in
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What controls movement of fluid between capillaries and surrounding tissues?
1. Blood pressure tends to drive fluid out of capillaries | 2. Presence if blood proteins pulls fluid back

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