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Disease - Any state on infirmity. Health - A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Pathology - - An individual's health - Disease targets certain tissues (Tropism) - Medicine for individual - Diagnosis and treatment by do...

africanized honey bees - honey bees demonstrating the aggressive nature and other undesirable characteristics. Dominantly inherited when these bees mate with European strain honeybees. First released (accidentally) in Brazil in 1956; now found in southern border region of the US agent - a living ...

what are the first 2 distant ancestors to insects? - Answer-trilobites, horseshoe crabs how old are trilobites? - Answer-400-600 million years how old are horseshoe crabs? - Answer-350 million years What are the first insect fossils? - Answer-tiny, wingless, soft bodied how old are the first ins...

psychology - the study of human behavior and mental processes and their influences behavior - human actions that can be observed mental processes - thoughts, emotions, and motives that cannot be observed science - an approach to gaining knowledge using systematic observation scientific method - ...

Earth's axis tilt - 23.5° Atmosphere - Thin gaseous envelope, 99% within 30km, protects from uv Climate - "Average weather" or mean conditions over extended period of time Elements of weather and climate - -temp of air -humidity of air, moisture -cloudiness -precipitation -pressure -wind...

An alteration in the DNA from an AT base pair to a CG base pair is called a ___. - Answer-Transversion An alteration in the DNA from an CG base pair to a TA base pair is called a ___. - Answer-Transition Which repair mechanism(s) involve(s) the removal of a single nucleotide? - Answer-Proofreading...

big bang - -still energy left from explosion -discovered in 1960s -assumes earth came from material -Kant created most pop model of formation (planet accretion) nebula - beginning form of planets many bump into others and combine earths composition - -more dense material in center -heterogene...

mare heat/breeding - egg meets sperm=fertilization -no conception/no sperm than CL regresses, egg is reabsorbed, a new cycle begins/follicle matures where should you measure a horse? - withers, the height of the vertebrae never changes most common place for fat deposits - crest a horses elbow is...

Ur - an early Sumerian city in ancient Mesopotamia Phoenicians - Located on eastern Mediterranean coast; invented the alphabet which used sounds rather than symbols like cuneiform King Scorpion - Predynastic Egyptian ruler Uruk - City representing Mesopotamian culture- existed from 4000 to 2900 ...

Aerobic Respiration - Inputs: glucose/O2 Products: CO2 and H2O Fermentation - Inputs: glucose Products: CO2 and Ethanol Specialized Metabolites - Natural plant products Human use: medicine, poisons, flavorings, nutrition, and color Phenolics - Tannins used in hide staining and red wines Antio...

Animal Cures for Disease - Mice with breast cancer and cystic fibrosis 2 Ways of Evaluating Economic Importance - Gross Income Economic Impact Factor Behavioral Mechanism - How an animal learns or knows how to perform to a specific behavior Biological Need - What an animal gains from a behavior ...

Which of the following words is derived from the Greek term meaning "anything that fell from or was seen in the sky"? - meteorology Weather is defined as: - the state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place In discussing the Hydrosphere, we learned that the oceans cover ____ of the earth...

Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)() - Mycenae takes over Crete, destroyed Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450. Early Dark Age(1250-900): - -Mycenae was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary decline. -Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take over. -1250 marks Trojan...

Viticulture is - the growth and study of grapes What color are the flowers of poinsettias? - yellow A herbaceous perennial plant - non-woody plants that typically dies back to the ground in the winter and then re-grows from the roots the following spring Humans are in what biological classificat...