Mammal - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The ___________________________________ identifies and protects those species that are in danger of extinction and prohibits the taking, importation, selling and/or possession of such species. Fur Seal and endangered Species Act of 1887 Endangered Species Act Breaux-Wallace Act Mammal Preservation Act - Endangered Species Act How you handle stressful situations and how you handle someone screaming at you is a measure of which aspect of "Conduct and Ethics"? Demeanor Professionalism Att...

AQA A LEVEL BIOLOGY Paper 1 2024 What is the function of the cell membrane? - ANS To control what enters and leaves the cell, acts as a barrier between the cell and its environment. What structural feature of the cell membrane allows substances to enter/leave? - ANS Partially permeable What is the fluid mosaic model? - ANS States that a membrane is a fluid structure (because phospholipids are constantly moving) with a "mosaic" of various proteins embedded in it Describe the...

Main questions of course - 1. How do humans alter earth 2. how do human alterations affect the biosphere 3. What can be done to alleviate human alterations of the biosphere Greatest ecological impacts of humans(most to least) - 1. Nitrogen fixation 2. Water use 3. Land transformation 4. CO2 concentration rise 5. Ocean acidification 6. Bird extinction 7. Plant invasion Planetary Boundaries - Limits between which global systems must operate to prevent abrupt and irreversible environment...

Abiotic - Non-living acid deposition (acid rain) - Release of sulfate and nitrate during theburning of coal contributes to ___________ Age of Angiosperms - Cenozoic Era 125 million years ago Age of Gymnosperms - Became the dominant plants. The Mesozoic is sometimes called the Age of Cycads. But their success was short-lived. . 390 million years ago Age of Mammals - Cenozoic Era- dinosaurs were gone. They began to flourish 65 million years ago Age of Reptiles - Mesozoic Era- dinosaurs r...

MAMMALIAN GENETICS BCH5413 EXAM 4 LATEST UPDATE...

As velocity of an animal increases, so does the cost of locomotion How are velocity and cost of locomotion related? Body mass Cost of locomotion varies with what? Basal metabolic rate What do we call the baseline energy expenditure? Positively correlated How are basal metabolic rate and body mass related? Slope In a logarithmic scale, what is the exponent related to? Equal increase in both variables On a graph demonstrating basal metabolic rate vs, body mass, what does a slope of 1 m...

MAMMALIAN GENETICS BCH5413 EXAM 2 WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS...

MAMMALIAN GENETICS BCH5413 EXAM 1 WITH QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ...

MAMMALIAN GENETICS BCH5413 COMPLETE EXAM ...

As velocity of an animal increases, so does the cost of locomotion How are velocity and cost of locomotion related? Body mass Cost of locomotion varies with what? Basal metabolic rate What do we call the baseline energy expenditure? Positively correlated How are basal metabolic rate and body mass related? Slope In a logarithmic scale, what is the exponent related to? Equal increase in both variables On a graph demonstrating basal metabolic rate vs, body mass, what does a slope of 1 m...

Megalosaurus Found fragments in England. 1st one to be scientifically discovered. Bipedal predaceous (theropod) Iguanodon first found fragments in Sussex England. Found the 1st complete skeleton in coal mines in Belgium later on Hylaeosaurus Armored reptile/Ankylosaurus. Found fragments in England "Dinosauria" - who came up with it, what it means, and concept of this clade/year Who: Richard Owen Meaning: "Deinos" - terrible, "sauros" - lizard/reptile Clade: bony sockets, large sa...