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Animal Form and Function
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
11/13/2009

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Adaption
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Compromises that give the best possible fitness for the environment (e.g. Arabian oryx)
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Arabian Oryx
Definition
Drinks no fluids. 86% water needs from vegetation. 14% from metabolism. Does not sweat.
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Adaption
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Permanent Change. (e.g. skin color of Africans)
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Acclimatization
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Short term changes (e.g. suntanning)
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Rickets in Northeast 1921
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75% of infants
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Rickets/Osteomalacia (adults)
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Bones do not mineralize, they demineralize and become bowed
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Rickets in Tibet
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66% of chillren
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Vitamin D Benefits
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Helps immune system, reduces auto immune problems, reduce types of cancer, prevent depression, linked type 1 diabetes, asthma, multiple sclerosis, preeclampsia
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Vitamin D deficiency is associated with
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Inability to make cathelicidin (antimicrobial peptide)
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Finnish Children receiving Vitamin D supplements
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were 78% likely to develop type 1 diabetes
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Scandinavian babies
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born in May are more likely to develop M.S. than those born in November
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Official Recommendation of Vitamin D
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200 IU/d
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Tissue
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A group of similar cells that function as a unit
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Types of connective tissue
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bone (hard extracellular matrix) cartilage (stiff extracellular matrix) blood (liquid extracellular matrix)
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Blood is
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a connective tissue in which cells are surrounded by a liquid extracellular matrix called plasma. Used to transport materials and temperature regulation.
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Nervous tissue consists
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nerve cells (neurons) and supporting cells
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Neurons
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Have projections that contact other cells, deliver electrochemical signals, produced by changes in permeability of neurons plasma to ions
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Support cells
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Make up majority of nervous tissue, support for neurons, supply neurons with nutrients, regulate ion concentration around neurons
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Skeletal muscle consists of
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long cells called muscle fibers. Muscle fiber packed with long protein filament that move by sliding past each other.Responds to electrical signal of neurons.
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Cardiac muscle
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lines walls of the heart. Similar to skeletal muscle. Branches and makes end to end physical and electrical contact with other cardiac muscle cells.
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Smooth muscle cells
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Lines the walls of the digestive tract and the walls of the blood vessels, TAPERED at each end.Neurons control contraction of smooth muscle cells.
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Epithelial tissue
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Cover outside of body and surfaces of organ, form glands, gatekeepers, inherent polarity
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Apical side
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Of epithelial tissue faces towards environment
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Basolateral Side
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Of epithelial tissue faces towards tissues
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Lumen is lined by
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epithelial tissues
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What limits how large an animal can be and still move effectively
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The force of gravity
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Larger animals vs. Smaller animals
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Large animals live longer, and have a higher rate of metabolism. Small animals are susceptible to damage from cold/dehydration
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Amount consumed per unit of weight
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Is smaller for larger animals
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BMR
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Basal Metabolic Rate: Rate of metabolism on an empty stomach while at rest. Rate of CO2 production.
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BMR based on size
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Small animals have higher BMR and large animals have lower BMRs
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Adaption to increase surface area
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capillaries, villi
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Small intestine has surface area
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of tennis court. Only ten feet long.
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Conformational homeostais
Definition
Does not regulate temperature e.g. Rock cod
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Regulatory homeostasis
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Maintains constant body temperature regardless of environment (e.g. dog)
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Set point
Definition
normal or target value for the controlled variable (body temp, pH, O2 saturation)
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Integrator
Definition
Located in hypothalamus, evaluates information and decide if response necessary
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Ectotherm
Definition
have external sources of heat. They are in conformational homeostasis
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Endotherm
Definition
regulate temperature by producing heat metabolically (regulatory homeostasis)
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Ectotherm and Endotherm may both
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use behavioral regulation to maintain body temperature
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Radiation
Definition
heat transfer via infrared radiation
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Conduction
Definition
heat transfer through a surrounding medium
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Convection
Definition
heat transfer through a surrounding medium
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Evaporation
Definition
heat transfer through evaporation of water from a surface
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Energy budget
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Is the balance of heat production and heat exchange
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Thermoneutral zone
Definition
The metabolic rate is low and independent of temperature
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Torpor
Definition
regulated hypothermia (small endotherms)
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Hibernation
Definition
long lasted regulated hypothermia
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What is perfectly preserved during hibernation
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Glycogen (a glucose polymer) and tissues
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Thermogenesis enzymes
Definition
the first warming up of hibernating animals. Metabolizes brown fat (found in fat)Attain temp of 30 degree celcius
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Facultative Terminators
Definition
come out of hibernation when ground conditions improve (females)
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Obligate terminators
Definition
Come out of hibernation in response to an endogeneous clock (males) for spermatogenesis
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set point theory
Definition
That weight is fairly constant throughout adult life. It is WRONG.
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