BIOL 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 39: Loose Connective Tissue, Cardiac Muscle, Skeletal Muscle
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Anatomy (refers to an organisms physical structure or form) Physiology (how physical structures in an organism function) Adaptations (heritable traits that make individuals more likely to survive and reproduce in certain environment than individuals that lack those traits) Spermatophore (packet of sperm surrounded by large, gelatinous mass) Adaptation refers to genetic change in population in response to natural selection exerted by environment. Acclimatization (short-term, phenotypic change in an individual in response to environmental fluctuations) Adaptive = meaning that it helps individual survive and produce viable offspring. If a mutant allele alters the size or shape of structure in a way that makes it function more efficiently, individuals with allele will produce more offspring than will other individuals. Tissue (group of cells that function as a unit) Connective tissue (consists if cells that are loosely arranged in liquid, jellylike, or solid matrix) Loose connective tissue (contains an array of fibrous proteins in soft matrix)
