BISC302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aedes Aegypti, Gastrointestinal Tract, Zika Virus

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BISC302
• Professor: Mahaffy Lynn

Document Summary

Specializations of the alimentary canal(digestive tract) seen in an herbivore may include. False, not all plants have chlorophyll and need to find nutrition through other means (ex parasitic plants) Small cecums are for hindgut fermentation and not found in herbivores. Energy is constantly recycled from one part of the food chain to another(false) Specialized bundle sheath cells in the leaf mesophyll. Co2 taken in at night and used during day is cam photosynthesis. Suppose you wanted to determine the temperature range over which the aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the zika virus can survive and reproduce. Is the max number of individuals that can be supported indefinitely. Any group of individuals that do, or could potentially, interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Scientific study of the relationships between organisms and their environment. The study of how organisms affect and are affected by one another (biotic) and their surroundings (abiotic)