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Zoology Units 1&2
Cells and mitosis, Architectural Patterns
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
01/23/2014

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How did Hooke contribute to the development of the cell theory?
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Coined the term "Cell"
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How did Van Leeuwenhoek contribute to the development of the cell theory?
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Made high quality lenses for microscopes that laid the ground work for cell theory.
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How did Schleiden and Schwann contribute to the development of the cell theory?
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announced that every living thing is made up of cells
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How did Purkinje contribute to the development of the cell theory?
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introduced the term "protoplasm" to describe cell contents.
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a cell that is 10-100 micrometers long, has a complex system of organelles, and could get nutrition from ingestion would be what kind of cell?
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Eukaryotic
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The root word "PRO" means?
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Before
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The root word "EU" means?
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True/ good
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What is the function of the mitochondria
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to produce ATP
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The organelle that is responsible for protein synthesis is?
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Ribosomes
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what is the word that describes the engulfment of a particle by a phagocyte of a unicellular eukaryote?
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Phagocytosis
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A cell that is 1-10 micrometers long, is very simple in nature, and gets it's nutrition from absorption or photosynthesis but not ingestion would be what kind of cell?
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Prokaryotic
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What are the two transport mechanisms?
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Facilitated diffusion and active transport
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What is diffusion?
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the movement of particles or molecules from an area of high concentration of the particles or molecules to an area of lower concentration.
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What is osmosis?
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a flow of a solvent (water) through a semipermeable membrane.
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What does ATP stand for?
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Adenosine Triphosphate (Energy)
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The long hair like strands on the outside of a cell that are used for movement. (Think Sperm Cell)
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Flagella
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What are the 5 stages of mitosis in order?
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Interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
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Which phase of the cell cycle does the cell tend to spend the most time in?
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interphase
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DNA is copied in what phase of the cell cycle?
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interphase (specifically "S" interphase)
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What does the root word "Karyo" mean?
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Nucleus/ kernel/ Nut
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The short hair like stands on the outside of a cell that are used to move the mucus or fluid around the cell.
(Think the lining of the uterus or the lungs)
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Cilia
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What does the root word "Chroma" mean?
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Color
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What does the root word "Soma" mean?
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Body
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The root word that means Inside or within is?
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Endo
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The root word that means brake or dissolve is?
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Lyso / Lysis
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The root word that means small is?
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micro
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What does the root word "exo" mean?
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outside/ out of
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what does fertilization mean?
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the initial event i development in sexual reproduction
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what is a single fertilized egg called?
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a zygote
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Polyspermy is the term given to what negative posable event in human development?
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the entrance of more than one sperm cell into an egg.
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what is the name of the structure that surrounds the head of a sperm cell during fertilization?
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fertilization cone
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What is the fertilization con made from?
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the plasma membrane and the viteline envelope of the egg cell wall.
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what is the eggs first response to prevent polyspermy?
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Fast Shock
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What is fast shock?
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the eggs quick electric pulse that knocks extra sperm off
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What is the eggs second response to prevent polyspermy?
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Cortical reaction (Slow block)
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What is the Cortical reaction?
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thousands of enzyme-rich cortical granules located just beneath the eggs membrane fuse with the membrane and release their contents into the space between the egg membrane and the overlying vitelline envelope.
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what is the fertilization membrane?
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one of the cortical granule enzymes cases the vitlline envelope to harden and the fertilization membrane is the now harden egg exterior.
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what is cleavage?
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process of nuclear and cell division in animal zygote with repeated cell division but no cell growth
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what is a blastomere?
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small maneuverable cells within a large cluster
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which pole on an egg contains very little yolk and mostly cytoplasm?
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animal pole
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Which pole on an egg contains the most yolk?
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the vegetal pole
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which pole on an egg is on the bottom?
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the vegetal pole
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when an egg has a sufficient amount of yolk as in telolecithal eggs what kind of development might the embryo go through?
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direct development
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When an egg as a little amount of yolk as in isolecithal or mesolecithal eggs what kind of development might the embryo go through?
Definition
indirect development
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what is the name given to a spherical cluster of cells with a cavity in the center.
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blastula
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What is a blastocoel
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the cavity of a blastula
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what is an archenteron?
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the internal pouch that forms at the early gastrulation stage that is the beginning stages of a gut.
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what is the blastopore?
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the opening to the gut where the inward bending began. (external opening of the archenteron)
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what stage is an embryo when it has two layers called an ectodrem and an endoderm?
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gastrula
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what does the root word poly mean?
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many
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what is the root word that means "bud, sprout, or germ"?
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Blasto
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What is the root word that means "Part" or "Portion"
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mere
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what does the root word coel mean?
Definition
hollow or cavity
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what does the root word gastro mean?
Definition
stomach or gut
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what is the root word that means "skin"
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Derma
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What is the root word that means "out of" or "from"
Definition
Ecto
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What does the root word meso mean?
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middle
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what does the root word di mean?
Definition
two
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what are the 3 basic layers called from which the various organs and tissues arise in a multicellular animal?
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germ layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm
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what is an animal with only two germ layers called?
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diploblastic
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what is an animal with three germ layers called?
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triploblastic
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what is the name for the body cavity in triploblastic animals, lined with mesodermal peritoneum?
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coelom
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What is the name for a coelum formed by the spliting of embryonic mesoderm?
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Schizocoely
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what is the name for a coelum formed by the outpouching of a mesodermal sac from the endoderm of the primitive gut?
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Enterocoely
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What are the differences between Protostomes and Deuterostomes?
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Protostomes: spirale cleavage, Mosaic embryo, Mouth forms first, schizocoely.
Deuterostomes: Radial cleavage, Regulative embryo, Anus forms first, enterocoely.
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what does the ectoderm form into?
Definition
Hair, Nails, Epithelial glands, linings of the mouth, enamel of teeth, lens of eyes, inner ear, nasal and olfactory epithelium, brain, spinal cord, motor nerves, sensory ganglia and nerves, adrenal medulla, sympathetic ganglia, skull, gill arches, dentine of teeth
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what does the mesoderm form into?
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Notochord, lining of thoracic and abdominal cavities, Circulatory system, blood, bond marrow, endothelium of blood vessels, lymphatics, Somites, skeletal muscle, bone and cartilage of skeleton (except skull), dermis, Connective tissues, organs of urogenital system (ureter, kidney, gonads, reproductive ducts), smooth muscle and connective tissues of digestive tract.
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what does the endoderm form into?
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Epithelium of respiratory tract, pharynx (pharyngeal puches, thyroid, parathyroid), epithelium of the gut, liver, pancreas, inner lining of urinary bladder, gut tube.
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which grade are unicellular organisms in?
Definition
protoplasmic grade
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which grade are aggregation of cells that are functionally differentiated. where a division of labor is evident.
Definition
Cellular grade
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What is the cell-tissue grade?
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an aggregation of similar cells into a definite patterns or layers and organized to perform a common function, to form a tissue.
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what is the tissue-organ grade?
Definition
where tissues form into organs
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what is organ-system grade?
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where organs work together to form certain functions
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what does sessile mean?
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stationary (does not move)
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what does the root word "tri"mean?
Definition
three
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what does the root word "schizo" mean?
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to split
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what does the root word "proto" mean?
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first
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What is the root word that means "second"?
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deutero
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what is the root word that means "mouth"?
Definition
Stoma
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what does the root word "cephalo" mean?
Definition
head
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what does the root word "pseudo" mean?
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fake or false
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what is the root word that means "same"
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homo
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what is the root word that means "form"
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Morphos
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what does the root word "apo" mean?
Definition
separate
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what does the root word "mono" mean?
Definition
one or single
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what is the root word that means "Beside"?
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para
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what is the term use to describe the tendency in the development of humans to localization of important organs or parts in or near the head?
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Cephalization
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what kind of coelom is absent and the mesoderm fills the entire area around the mesodermal organs and the gut, inside the ectoderm?
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acoelomate
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