Physiological Development And Epigenetics - Animal Physiology | Biology+

Course

Animal Biology

Study Pack

Set 1: Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage

Set 2: Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology

Set 4: Physiological Development and Epigenetics

Set 5: Transport of Solutes and Water

Set 6: Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion

Set 7: Energy Metabolism

Set 8: Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism

Set 9: The Energetics of Aerobic Activity

Set 10: Thermal Relations

Set 11: Food, Energy, and Temperature at Work: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places

Set 12: Neurons

Set 13: Synapses

Set 14: Sensory Processes

Set 15: Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks

Set 16: Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology

Set 17: Reproduction

Set 19: Control of Movement

Set 21: Movement and Muscle at Work: Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse

Set 22: Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Physiology

Set 23: External Respiration: the Physiology of Breathing

Set 24: Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids With an Introduction to Acid- Base Physiology

Set 25: Circulation

Set 26: Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport at Work: Diving by Marine Mammals

Set 27: Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms

Set 29: Kidneys and Excretion With Notes on Nitrogen Excretion

Set 30: Water, Salts, and Excretion at Work: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas

Set 28: Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments

Set 4 Physiological Development And Epigenetics

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Set 4 Physiological Development And Epigenetics

(Multiple Choice)

Free

The functions and processes occurring at all of the successive stages of individual ontogeny, as well as their mechanisms, are called

A) developmental plasticity.
B) phenotypic plasticity.
C) developmental physiology.
D) epigenetics.

Answer

(Multiple Choice)

Free

Which statement regarding hooded seals is true?

A) Weanlings dive as deep as adults.
B) Weanling hooded seals dive as many times per hour as adults do.
C) Weanlings have the same dive duration capabilities as adults.
D) Weanlings spend 90% of their time underwater just as adults do.

Answer

(Multiple Choice)

Free

Which source is the most significant oxygen store during a mammalian dive?

A) Lung air
B) Blood plasma
C) Hemoglobin
D) Myoglobin in skeletal muscle

Answer