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Which organism has the highest concentration of potassium ions in their plasma?
Freshwater mussels
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Brown trout
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Crayfish
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Frogs
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Which structure in crayfish is analogous to the kidney?
Carapace
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Antennal gland
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Antenna
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Heart
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Which animal has the highest osmotic U/P ratio?
Clawed toad
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Goldfish
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Crayfish
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Snail
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Freshwater animals transport sodium into their body from the environment via
simple diffusion.
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facilitated diffusion.
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passive transport.
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active transport.
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If the sodium concentration in a frog's environment were to decrease to 0.01 mM, sodium intake from the environment would
continue to occur by diffusion.
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continue to occur by facilitated diffusion.
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continue to occur by active transport.
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cease to occur by diffusion.
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If the chloride concentration in a frog's environment were to decrease to 0.01 mM, chloride intake from the environment would
continue to occur by diffusion.
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continue to occur by facilitated diffusion.
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continue to occur by active transport.
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cease to occur by diffusion.
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The excess protons that fish gills pump into the environment are the product of
carbon dioxide reacting with water.
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protein metabolism.
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catabolism.
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glycolysis.
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In adult freshwater fish, chloride exchange with the environment occurs primarily in the
kidneys.
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heart.
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gills.
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skin.
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In adult freshwater teleosts, gas exchange occurs in the
skin.
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gill arches.
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gill filaments.
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lamellae.
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Which organelle is most abundant in chloride cells?
Golgi apparatus
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Mitochondria
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Rough endoplasmic reticulum
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Ribosomes
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If you were to decrease the calcium concentration in a freshwater fish's environment,
the number of its chloride cells would increase.
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the number of its chloride cells would decrease.
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the number of its chloride cells would remain the same.
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its oxygen uptake ability would increase.
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Which organism is most hyposmotic to seawater?
Mussel
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Sea urchin
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Hagfish
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Teleost
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In freshwater teleosts, blood osmotic pressure is _______ m
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_______ than the osmotic pressure of freshwater.
300; lower
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300; higher
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600; higher
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600; lower
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In fish, movement of sodium across the gills depends on
permeability and concentration gradient.
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permeability, concentration gradient, and electrical gradient.
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concentration gradient and electrical gradient.
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permeability and electrical gradient.
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NKCCs in the mitochondria-rich cells of marine teleost are located
on the apical membrane.
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on the basolateral membrane.
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on the apical and basal membranes.
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in the cytoplasm and on the apical and basolateral membranes.
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In mitochondria-rich cells of marine teleosts, chloride moves by
primary active transport, using ATP directly.
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secondary active transport, using ATP directly.
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secondary active transport, using ATP indirectly.
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simple diffusion—no need for ATP.
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Species that are able to survive within a broad range of ambient salinity are called
conformers.
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stenohaline.
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euryhaline.
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xeric.
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Animals that ascend rivers from the ocean to breed are
anadromous.
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catadromus.
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stenohaline.
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osmoconformers.
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Which animal has the lowest weight-specific total rate of evaporative water loss?
White-crowned sparrow
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Zebra finch
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Gambel's quail
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Ostrich
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What is this figure measuring?
Total evaporative water loss
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Mass-specific metabolic rate
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Urine osmotic pressure
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Metabolic water production
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Where would you plot a goose on this figure?
Far below the black line, at the average weight of a goose
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On the black line directly above the beaver
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Close to the Kirk's dik-dik
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On the black line directly below Kirk's dik-dik
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In an experiment in which additional aquaporins are inserted onto the pelvic patch membrane of a frog, what is most likely to occur?
Water permeability will remain the same.
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Water permeability will decrease.
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Water permeability will increase.
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Salt permeability will increase.
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