BIO 1407 THIRD LECTURE EXAM
REVIEW (This is not exhaustive, please
review all materials we covered in class)
Dr. Harold Kay
1. What are the 4 major categories
of tissues
2. Neurons are specialized cells
characteristic of the nervous
tissue
3. what do we mean by nonspecific
immunity
4. Hierarchical order of cell
systems. e.g. cells, tissues organs
etc
5. What is BMR and SMR
6. complement system is made up
of about 20 proteins.
7. How does a gastrovascular cavity
differ from an alimentary canal
8. What is an antigen
9. What is an antibody
10. In tissue damage histamines are
released
11. What does a vaccine contain
12. What is primary and secondary
immune response?
13. Definition of ectotherm and
endotherm
14. What is metabolic rate
15. Where do we find chondrocytes
16. Types of epithelial tissue
17. Types of connective tissue
18. Composition of blood
19. Types of vertebrate muscle tissue
e.g. smooth, cardiac and skeletal
muscles
20. Negative and positive feedbacks
21. What are the two mechanisms
that protect the vertebrate body
from infection
22. What is the first line of defense
23. What are the three interacting
mechanisms of the second line of
defense
24. What are some examples of
phagocytic white blood cells?
25. When does inflammatory
response occur?
26. What are the two most important
examples of antimicrobial
proteins
27. What is the third line of defense
28. What are the four characteristics
of the immune system (specific
mechanism)
29. B- cells are responsible for the
humoral immune response while
T-cells are responsible for the
cell- mediated immune response
30. What are antigens
31. What are antibodies
32. What is an antigen receptor
33. Define specificity, diversity,
self/nonself and memory
34. What does MHC stand for
35. What are the five classes of
antibodies
36. Define allergy, allergen
37. Define autoimmune disease
38. Anaphylactic shock
39. What are the four physical
processes that account for heat
loss and heat gain
40. What is the average body temp of
humans/birds
41. What is acclimatization
42. Define torpor
43. Define anhydrobiosis
44. What is the nephron
45. What is vasidilation/
vasoconstriction
46. Humans die if 12% of their body
water is lost
47. What is ADH- antidiuretic
hormone
48. What are the two major strains of
HIV
49. What are the cells that release
histamine
50. Differentiate between class 1 and
class 2 MHC
51. What are the two types of cells
that make up connective tissue?
52. What are osteoblasts
53. What is kwashiorkor
54. Differentiate between water
soluble vitamins and fat soluble
vitamins
55. What are stanohaline/euryhaline
animals?
56. When organs are suspended by
connective tissues, what are they
called?
57. When absorbed glycerol and
fatty acids recombine to form fat
and are coated with proteins,
what are they called?
58. What type of animals excrete
ammonia.
59. What is allergy?
60. What is secondary immune
response.