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Study guide for the first exam in Comparative Animal Physiology.

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CAP Exam 1

Question 1 of 27

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_______________ is the study of morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations that enhance an organism's ability to survive grow and/or reproduce with respect to the biotic and abiotic environment

Select one of the following:

  • Ecological Physiology

  • Biological Physiology

  • Ecological Behavior

  • Biological Behavior

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Question 2 of 27

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Ecological Physiology looks at...

Select one of the following:

  • how animals go about solving the problem of life

  • how animals move

  • the muscular and skeletal physique of animals

  • how animals work out

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Question 3 of 27

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Why is Ecological Physiology referred to as the Queen of Biological Sciences?

Select one of the following:

  • It requires working knowledge of 20+ biological sub-disciplines as well as physics, chemistry, and math

  • It was the first biological discipline from which all others are derived from

  • The term was coined by Queen Victoria, because she was fascinated with the subject

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Question 4 of 27

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

( Evolution, Ecological physiology, Reproduction ) is the cornerstone of biological thought, but ( ecological physiology, evolution, reproduction ) is the mortar that holds it together.

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Question 5 of 27

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Ecological physiology attempts to explain life by separating _______________ and _____________.

Select one of the following:

  • proximate cues, ultimate causation

  • cause, effect

  • plants, animals

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Question 6 of 27

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: What is the adaptation and how does it work?

: What evolutionary pressures have shaped the ecological order?

Drag and drop to complete the text.

    Proximate Cues
    Ultimate Causation

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Question 7 of 27

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What are the two main study areas of Ecological Physiology?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Quantifies how organisms handle stressful environmental conditions and factors

  • Defines tolerance limits and circumscribes an organism's physiological niche

  • Defines how and why animals move about

  • Quantifies the amount of energy needed for an animal to perform basic tasks

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Question 8 of 27

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What are the objectives of ecological physiology?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Identify unifying principles by which physiological function is governed

  • Understand the physiological diversity of organisms at all levels of organization

  • Understand the relationships between different organisms in an environment

  • Identify the evolutionary path that resulted in extant species

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Question 9 of 27

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Who wrote "Effects of the Environment on Animal Activity" and advocated studies of systems physiology as it relates to environment?

Select one of the following:

  • Frederick E. J. Fry

  • Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

  • George A. Bartholomew

  • Per Scholander

  • Antoine Lavoisier

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Question 10 of 27

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Check all that are included in the famous Fry paradigm

Select one or more of the following:

  • Animal behavior is distinct from, but related to, physiology

  • Environment affects behavior by acting on physiology

  • Physiological and behavioral traits are an expression of the continuous relationship between organism and environment

  • Animal physiology effects behavior by acting on the environment

  • Evolution is driven by natural selection

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Question 11 of 27

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Select from the dropdown list to complete the text.

Integrated physiological responses only have meaning if interpreted respective of ( animal activity, animal morphology, plant morphology ) within its environment.

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Question 12 of 27

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Label the responses to environmental change

: Entities that irreversibly destroy integration resulting in death
: Entities that influence molecular activation, and set the rate or pace of metabolism and development
: Entities that interfere with delivery or removal of metabolites thus limiting metabolic performance, locomotion and distribution
: Entities that, when perturbed, must be regulated through expenditure of metabolic energy diverted from other physiological processes
: Entities that alter physiological profiles in time resulting in attraction or avoidance reactions that guide the movements of an organism

Drag and drop to complete the text.

    Lethal Factors
    Controlling Factors
    Limiting Factors
    Regulatory Factors
    Directing Factors

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Question 13 of 27

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Who wrote pioneering works in the areas of water balance, salt excretion, heat budgets, and nitrogen balance?

Select one of the following:

  • Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

  • Frederick E. J. Fry

  • George A. Bartholomew

  • Per Scholander

  • Antoine Lavoisier

Explanation

Question 14 of 27

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Who built the basic foundation of eco-physiology through inductive reasoning?

Select one of the following:

  • George A. Bartholomew

  • Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

  • Frederick E. J. Fry

  • Per Scholander

  • Antoine Lavoisier

Explanation

Question 15 of 27

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Who shaped our current understanding of animal diving physiology?

Select one of the following:

  • Per Scholander

  • George A. Bartholomew

  • Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

  • Frederick E. J. Fry

Explanation

Question 16 of 27

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Who was the founder of animal bioenergentics?

Select one of the following:

  • Antoine Lavoisier

  • Per Scholander

  • George A. Bartholomew

  • Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

  • Frederick E. J. Fry

Explanation

Question 17 of 27

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Animal processes are unaffected by environmental temperature

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 18 of 27

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Select from the dropdown lists to complete the text.

To ( cold-blooded, warm-blooded ) animals temperature has quality as well as quantity.
( Birds and mammals, Fish and reptiles ) spend huge amounts of energy to free themselves for immediate temperature effects.

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Question 19 of 27

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_________________ states that size relationships affect metabolism, growth, movement and just about everything else.

Select one of the following:

  • The Law of Allometry

  • The Law of Symmetry

  • The Law of Relative Size

  • The Law of Emergent Properties

Explanation

Question 20 of 27

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Behavioral adaptations are an organisms first line of defense against environmental change.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 21 of 27

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An environment is determined by the behavior of the animals inside it.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 22 of 27

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Perfection is the result of natural selection.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 23 of 27

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Complex organismal responses to change cannot be predicted from lower organizational levels.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 24 of 27

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What is the Law of Emergent Properties?

Select one of the following:

  • as complexity increases from level to level in the biological hierarchy, properties emerge that could not be predicted from lower organization levels.

  • size relationships affect metabolism, growth, movement, and just about everything else.

  • as an organism's complexity increases, increasingly complex properties emerge in the organism's morphology

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Question 25 of 27

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Horvath's toad-headed agama has which strange adaptation?

Select one of the following:

  • collects water using a practice called "rain-harvesting"

  • wide, flat feet to avoid sinking in the sand

  • mucous-covered skin to trap water

Explanation

Question 26 of 27

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What are the two basic types of nervous cells?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Neroglial cells

  • astrocytes

  • axon

  • neurons

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Question 27 of 27

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Which are neuroglial cells?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Ependymal cells

  • Astrocytes

  • Oligodenricytes

  • Schwann cells

  • Microglia cells

  • Dendrites

  • Axons

Explanation

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