CAP Exam 1

_______________ 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

Ecological Physiology looks at...

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

[blank_start]Evolution[blank_end] is the cornerstone of biological thought, but [blank_start]ecological physiology[blank_end] is the mortar that holds it together.

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

[blank_start]Proximate Cues[blank_end]: What is the adaptation and how does it work? [blank_start]Ultimate Causation[blank_end]: What evolutionary pressures have shaped the ecological order?

What are the two main study areas of Ecological Physiology?

What are the objectives of ecological physiology?

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

Check all that are included in the famous Fry paradigm

Integrated physiological responses only have meaning if interpreted respective of [blank_start]animal activity[blank_end] within its environment.

Label the responses to environmental change [blank_start]Lethal Factors[blank_end]: Entities that irreversibly destroy integration resulting in death [blank_start]Controlling Factors[blank_end]: Entities that influence molecular activation, and set the rate or pace of metabolism and development [blank_start]Limiting Factors[blank_end]: Entities that interfere with delivery or removal of metabolites thus limiting metabolic performance, locomotion and distribution [blank_start]Regulatory Factors[blank_end]: Entities that, when perturbed, must be regulated through expenditure of metabolic energy diverted from other physiological processes [blank_start]Directing Factors[blank_end]: Entities that alter physiological profiles in time resulting in attraction or avoidance reactions that guide the movements of an organism

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

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

Who shaped our current understanding of animal diving physiology?

Who was the founder of animal bioenergentics?

Animal processes are unaffected by environmental temperature

To [blank_start]cold-blooded[blank_end] animals temperature has quality as well as quantity. [blank_start]Birds and mammals[blank_end] spend huge amounts of energy to free themselves for immediate temperature effects.

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

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

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

Perfection is the result of natural selection.

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

What is the Law of Emergent Properties?

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

What are the two basic types of nervous cells?

Which are neuroglial cells?