[BIOLOGY 3XL3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (59 pages long!)
7 Feb 2017
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Goldfish: ability to change its metabolism by converting lactate by product into ethanol. Toadfish: fastest contracting muscle (200 times/s vs 7 times/s in human athletes) and modified swim bladder. Ph(cid:455)siolog(cid:455) is o(cid:374)e of (cid:271)iolog(cid:455)"s (cid:373)ost integrative disciplines. Asks (cid:862)how do a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als work? : mechanisms of function. Study of mechanisms separates it from related fields: look at all components that make up an organisms and at how they integrate comparable to a car and all of its gears. Can compare different populations of the same species or different species. Differences in those groups is due to evolution and the environment they live in. Malnourished growing up = shorter than if you were well nourished: phenotypes vary depending on how environment acts on it. Camels: nasal cavity when they breath in, the air takes up water from the nasal passages: when they breathe out, they condense all that water again reducing water loss from respiration.
