surface area to volume ratio - correct answer decreases as animal gets larger
-larger animals have a harder time with heat loss
multicellularity - correct answer evolution of organisms that are bigger than single celled organisms
that allow for specialization
types of tissues - correct answer epithelial, muscle, nervous, connective
epithelial tissue - correct answer barrier to mechanical disturbance, microbes & fluid loss, absorption
& secretion, sheets of tightly packed cells-closely joined
SEEN AS: skin, lining of organs(intestines, esophagus, stomach, alveoli)
connective tissue - correct answer bind+support to connect cells, spread out cells embedded in
extracellular matrix(web of fibers that can be liquid, jelly, solid)
SEEN AS: blood, cartilage, bone, loose connective tissue, fat tissue
muscle tissue - correct answer locomotion, movement, heat production, long cells are muscle fibers
composed of contracting subunits called myofibrils
SEEN AS: skeletal muscle(all major muscle group), smooth(intestines)(pupil), cardiac
nervous tissue - correct answer transmit information between cells, sense stimuli, coordinate
activity, stimulate glands, etc
SEEN AS: brain, spinal cord, optic nerve, peripheral nerves
carbohydrates - correct answer fuel, stored in liver & muscle cells as glycogen, provide about one
day's energy needs
fat - correct answer fuel, more energy per gram and little water
, leptin - correct answer hormone produced by adipose cells in proportion to fat muscle, controls
appetite and increases metabolic rate
- released when fat is high
gastrovascular cavity - correct answer digestive chamber with a single opening
tubular guts - correct answer opening at each end (mouth, anus)
4 stages of food processing - correct answer ingestion, digestion, absorption, elimination
-eating, breaking down food into molecules, uptake of nutrients across cell membranes, passage of
undigested material out of digestive compartment
homeostasis - correct answer active maintance of internal body conditions around a set point
through physiological or behavioral feedback loops
-37C
-300 moms/L osmolarity
Equilibrium - correct answer state of balanced opposing forces, no net change
negative feedback loop - correct answer change in variable that counteracts further change in the
same direction
positive feedback loop - correct answer change in variable that enhances change in the same
direction
conformer - correct answer ectothermic animal, get heat from environment: maintains outside temp
regulator - correct answer endothermic animal, produces their own heat: regulates heat based on
external conditions