Review

Water Physiology

1.What are three important functions carried out by the kidney?

2. The ______is the functional unit of the kidney.

3. Freshwater/Salwater teleosts produce concentrated urine.(circle one)

4. What are the two types of diadromy?Describe.

5.Define osmoregulation.

6. Water balance: keeping from ______or getting ______.

7. The ______collects unabsorbed materials and absorbs water.

8. What is allometry?

Digestion

9. The ______is blind storage sac for bile.

10. The ______is used for storage of carbs, sugars, and fats.

11. What organ in cows reduces food to a workable pulp?

12. The pancreatic juice and bile are rich in ______for neutralization.

13. Birds have a ______for storage of seeds, and a ______(grinding stomach).

14. The esophagus uses ______for movement.

15. What are the four functions of the digestive system?

Vertebrate Repro

16. Most vertebrates have sexual/asexual reproduction.(circle one)

17. ______is asexual reproduction, also called “virgin birth.”

18. True/False Hermaphrodites can fertilize themselves.

19. What are the two kinds of sex determination? Which is most common?

20. Compare/contrast r and K-selected species. Give an example of each.

21. ______: embryo develops outside the female’s body.

______: embryo develops within the female’s body.

______: embryo develops within an egg inside the female body, with no further nourishment to the embryo.

22. What are the 3 types of pair bonding? Describe.

23. ______is one male to many females, ______is one female and many males.

24. What is sexual dimorphism?

25. A ______factor causes a species to breed at a time of year to increase success, while the factors that let an organism know the breeding season approaches are ______factors.

Endocrine System

26. ______: complex chemicals that cause changes in parts of the body.

27. What is the master center of the Endocrine system?

28. Match the hormone with the function.

Adrenocoticotrophic Hormone Associated with pineal gland, diurnal rhythms

Thyroxin Important for molting in birds

Melatonin Key in metamorphosis in amphibians

Integument

29. The ______is the outer layer, while the ______is the inner layer of skin.

30. ______glands produce poisons in amphibians.

31. Shedding in reptiles is called ______while it is called ______birds.

32. Sweat glands- eccrine is used for ______while apocrine have ______functions.

33. Name the 3 types of hairand describe.