Foraging Behavior - The Search for Food

Optimizing its foraging behavior

1. When the difference between the energetic benefits of food consumption  and the energetic costs of food gathering is maximized.

2. Animals with optimal foraging strategies will have more available energy with which to survive and reproduce.

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

A synapse is a site where information is transmitted from one cell to another. 

Types of synapses:

1. electrical synapse

2. chemical synapse

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

P1 ATPases transports

Cu+, Ag+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Cd2+, Pb2+ and Co2+.

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Function of the ER:

most eukaryotic cells is to sequester Ca2+ from the cytosol (High concentration of Ca2+-binding proteins in the ER facilitates Ca2+ storage)

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Basolateral membranes of thyrocytes contain a symporter Na+/I –symporter (NIS) 

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

The defense response triggered by a traumatic signal can result in a local defense response near the wound and/or a systemic acquired resistance (SAR) at the uninjured site, and/or even induced defense responses from adjacent plants.