A female fly, full of fertilized eggs, is swept by high winds to an island far out to sea. She is the first fly to arrive on this island, and the only fly to arrive in this way. Thousands of years later, her numerous offspring occupy the island, but none of them resembles her. There are, instead, several species each of which eats only a certain type of food. None of the species can fly, for their flight wings are absent, and their balancing organs (i.e., halteres) are now used in courtship displays. The male members of each species bear modified halteres that are unique in appearance to their species. Females bear vestigial halteres. The ranges of all of the daughter species overlap.In each fly species, the entire body segment that gave rise to the original flight wings is missing. The mutation(s) that led to the flightless condition could have

#Question id: 11209

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Acetylcholine released into the junction between a motor neuron and a skeletal muscle binds to a sodium/potassium channel and opens it. This is an example of ________.

#Question id: 11208

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Neurotransmitters are released from axon terminals via ________.

#Question id: 11207

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

In multiple sclerosis, the myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged and demyelination results. How does this disease manifest at the level of the action potential?

 I) Action potentials move in the opposite direction on the axon.

 II) Action potentials move more slowly along the axon.

 III) No action potentials are transmitted.

#Question id: 11206

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Tetrodotoxin blocks voltage-gated sodium channels, and ouabain blocks sodium-potassium pumps. If you added both tetrodotoxin and ouabain to a solution containing neural tissue, what responses would you expect?

#Question id: 11205

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

What would probably happen if a long neuron had one continuous myelin sheath down the length of the axon with no nodes of Ranvier?

#Question id: 11204

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Why do Na+ ions enter the cell when voltage-gated Na+ channels are opened in neurons?