Essential for the maintenance of lipid ... Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Dutch microscopist ... van Leeuwenhoek, 1702. Anhydrobiosis. Life Without Water' ...
Camels: tolerate 30-40% loss of body weight by dehydration (most other mammals: 10-15 ... Camels. Have a countercurrent exchanger in their nose. reduce ...
Are a group composed of several phyla which share similar characters but are ... protonephrida are absent but a tube is present w/midventral pore. for exiting waste. ...
OSMOREGULATION & EXCRETION Chapter 44 ADH is a response to an increase in the osmolarity of the blood when the body is dehydrated. RAAS responds when a ...
Seed nematodes. Nematodes feed inside young seed ovules ... Nematode standing on its tail waiting to attach to a ... Diagnosing a nematode problem. signs ...
Thermoregulation - the ability of animals to regulate their ... Metanephridia of the Annelid. Malpighian Tubules of the Insect. Counter Current Exchange ...
Body fluids are lower solute concentrations than marine relatives ... Readily passes through membranes and lost by diffusion to the surrounding water ...
... most annelids (e.g. earthworms); excretory organs open internally to the coelom ... Coelom. Bladder. Metanephridium. Nephrostome. Malpighian tubules ...
Tardigrades AKA Water bears the most incredible animals on earth. Tardigrade History In 1702, Anton van Leeuwenhok discovered tardigrades when he poured ...
Physical extremes (T, p, radiation, gravity, vacuum) and geochemical extremes ... an extreme environment (remember August BC fires, recent Vancouver draught) ...