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In cnidarians, in general the polyp is smallest and least complex in...
Hydrozoa - they're the really small stalky things
Glass sponges belong to the class...
Demospongiae (silaceous spicules, not 6 rayed though)
Hexactinellida (6 rayed = venuses flower basket)
Calcaerous sponges belong to the class...
Calcaera!
have the classic 3 rayed spicules
What is a nematocyst?
and what is it discharged by?
Stinging organelle in cnidarians,
by osmotic pressure
Acontia - what are they?
in sea anemones - the edges of the septa that extend into thread like structures that have nematocycst and stuff inside them
sexual reproduction in sponges - where do sperm arise from?
choanocytes - the flagellated cells that generate water flow through the sponge
leuconoid sponges - are the channels into the sponge lined with choanocytes?
No, only the chambers in the sponge, these chambers with choanocyes create the current that draws in the water
most sponges are ....... in structure
Leuconoid, the most complex type, also the most efficient. 80-90% of sponges are in the class demospongiae
athropod exoskeleton evolved in the .... period
precambrian
athropod deuterostome or protostome?
protostome (so schizocoely)
exoskeleton of athropods made of?
chitin and protien
layers of athropod exoskeleton from surface down... GO
Main ones: epicuticle, procuticle, epidermis.
(within procuticle - exocuticle and endocuticle)
Procuticle - function
strength = cross linking (chelicerates, insects)
embedding of calcium salts (crustaceans, why their outside is so tough)
epicuticle - function
chemical barrier - complex mix of protiens and waxes = waterproofing
moulting - where is moulting fluid secreted, what layer?
below endocuticle, but most of the good bits like chitin and calcuim salts have been rabsorbed by this time
homonomy
primitive kind of tagma where each has a pair of jointed appendages, each segment is functionally similar
heteronomy
where the jointed appendages are highly specialised for different things, eg crustaceans
tagma
many segments fused together in a functional group - eg in spiders the abdomen is many bits fused together
what has BIRAMOUS appendages
trilobites and crustaceans
tracheal system - one adv. one disadv.
O2 direct to tissues = good for periods of intense activity
limits body size
hemimetabolous
has nymph stages, gradual changes
mandibulata - name 2 of the three sub phylum
myriapoda (centipede, millipedes)
Hexapoda (insects)
Crustacea (crustaceans)
what's special about those huge trilobite eyes?
compound eyes had calcium carbonate lens - c.f protein one of modern arth.
when were trilobites dominant?
When extinct?
mid cambrian (remember the athropod exoskeleton came about in pre cambrian)
extinct 225 MYA
SubP Chelicerata name one
Class Arachnida,Merostoma (horseshoe crabs), Pycnogonida (sea spiders)
SubP Myriapoda, name the 2 classes

Diplopoda = millipedes
Chilopoda = Centipedes
Super class Hexapoda, classes?
= class insecta ... All of those insects...
SubP Crustacea, name 2 classes
Class Maxillopoda (copepods, Barnacles)
Class Malacostraca = Crabs, Shrimp, Crayfish, slaters
protopod, which part?

main bit that the other exopod and endopod extend from
exopod
the one on the outer side of body
endopod
closest to body
epipod - in crayfish what function?
outgrowth of the protopod - often modified as a gill eg in crays
how is exoskeleton of athropods different to shell of molluscs?
ath. is more alive - has sensory hairs and glands poking through
gill chamber - where?
= between body wall and carapace- where the gills can sit nice and safe
layers of crustacean exoskeleton
pigmented layer and calcified layer. No waxy coating
in moulting, when does the secretion of the new endocuticle occur?
the epicuticle and exocuticle?
endocuticle - in postescdysis (after old epicuticle and exocuticle have been shed)
epicuticle = in premoult
exocuticle = in second part of premoult
what causes moulting
1 env. stimuli makes CNS secrete less MIH from X organ in brain
3 Y organ near mandibles releases MH in response to low MIH
main body cavity in crustaceans is?
Haemocoel - leftover from blastocoel = open circulatory system
Reduced Coelom
pericardial sinus
chamber outside heart, 'blood' reenters heart from here via ostia
blood pigments in crustaceans
heamoglobin, heamocyanin
do crustaceans have veins?
NO, blood returns via sinouses after going through the gills
thoracic gills
just means have gills in a pocket in thorax
how does water get into gill chamber?
Bailer - part of 2nd maxillae fans it in
digestive system in crus.
one-way, tubular gut
complex stomach in some
different kinds of 'tooth' and filters to sort food
excretory sys in crus.
paired nephridia in head
oft. called green glands, antennal or maxillary glads
nitrogen excreted as ammonia
class remipedia
primitive crus. swim on back, 2 tagma
class branchiopoda
water fleas, Anostraca - brine and fairy shrimp,
class Ostracoda
seed shrimps, have paired shell, benthic,
Class Maxillopoda - which phyla? sup phylum? give one example
barnacles, legs used just for feeding
Class Malocostrata, give one eg
crabs, shrimp, yabbies (has isopods = eg. slaters dorsoventrally flattened, no carapace) order decapoda = 10 legs
isopods have a carapace?
NO (are pill bugs and slaters)
first three pairs of appendages in crays do what? are found where?
Are maxillipeds and with maxillae are used for food handling. found on THORAX
what do water fleas and other members of Claudocera use their antennae for?
Swimming and feeding
What do branchiopods use their feet for?
branch = lung pod=foot
they use them for respiration
ALL athropods have an ..... circulatory system
open
Chelicerates:1st and 2nd pair of appendages = what? + how many walking legs?
1st = chelicerae
2nd = pedipalps
4 pairs
What's special about order Acari (mites and ticks)
cephalothorax and abdomen fused - have gnathosoma and the rest is idiosoma (which is the fused cephalothorax and abdomen)
Order Araneae
Mygalomorphae
fangs point straight down and don't cross each other
Aranaeomorph spider
Fangs bite at right angles to body in a pincer like action, they cross each other = most spiders
book lungs
in spiders and others
many parallel air pockets that extend into blood-filled chamber, air goes in via slit in body wall and oxygenates blood
myriapods - how many body segments? name five parts of head
2 - head and trunk(with many legs)
1. antennae 2. mandible base? 3. mandibles 4. maxilla one 5. maxilla 2
diplosegments in millipedes
two segments that have fused and so have 2 pairs of legs, ie 4 legs all up
which of the myriapods has fangs?
chilopods (centipedes. bc they are predators)
hexapoda - name the general characteristics
3 body tagmata - head, thorax, abdomen. 3 pairs legs (hex=6, pod=foot). usu. 2 pairs of wings
Apterygota - what are they?
= wingless insects = eg. silverfish
pterygota - what are they?

= winged insects
Paleoptera
ancient wings = thought to be most similar to ancestral condition, can't fold wings eg dragonflies
neoptera
new wings, can be properly folded, everything except dragonflies, mayflies (paleopterans)
exopterygoa?
what kind of dev?
outside wings - look at the 'ex' prefix
have HEMIMETABOLUS dev
(cf catterpillars. wings are inside until go through last moult/cocoon stage)
endopterygota
what kind of dev?
inside wings,
HOLOMETABOLOUS dev (= nymph stage and gradual growing up with each moult)
Orthopteroid orders (P arthropoda)
eg.? what kind of mouthparts
what kind of pterygota?
eg. grasshoppers, mantids, termites
hard biting mouthparts
exopterygota
Hemipteroid orders
eg? what kind of mouthparts?
what kind of pterygota?
aphids, cicadas, backswimmers
piercing and sucking mouthparts
what is the hard covering on true beetles formed from (what structure)? what's it called?
wings - forewings modified to be hard protective covering
Elytra
in 2 winged flies, what is the hind wing modified into?
halters for stability
what is the stinger of a bee modified from?
ovipositor. worker bees don't breed so don't need an ovipositor
bees, ants and true flies: Endopterygotes or exopterygotes?
endo
hexapods: name 2 things that constrict their size.
trachea, inefficient the bigger you get
Moulting, you're very vulnerable to predation when you don't have your armour
Support:
characteristics of Hexapods cf crustaceans - head end esp.
different = uniramous appendages, ONE pair of antennae, 3 pairs jointed thoracic legs Same as crus = pair of mandibles and 2 pairs maxillae on head,
name four stages for homometabolous life cycle and what each stage is about
1. egg:protective 2. Larvae: feeding and growth. 3. Pupae: protection for transition to adult. 4. Adult: reproduction, spreading out and occupation of different niche
name three things that make flight possible in Hexapods
organised muscle system, high met rate, small size, flexible thorax
how many head segments in hexapods? name in order
1. antenna 2. - 3. mandible 4. maxilla 5. labium
excretory system of hexapods? what kind of nitrogen?
malphigian tubules, secrete uric acid = uses v little water
digestive sys of hexapods
foregut = before gastric caeca, midgur = btw caeca and malphigian tubules, hidgut = after malphigian tubules
what is peritrophic membrane in hexapods?
surrounds food bolus in midgut
hexapoda - saprophagy
= eat dead, decaying organic material
eg cockroaches, flies
hexapoda - phytophagy
= eat things from plants - nectar, pollen, sap
eg. grasshoppers, aphids
hexapoda - hematophagy
parasites, don't kill host, usu. only one life stage, eg. fleas, mozzies, lice
in deuterostomes what does the blastopore become? in protostomes?
deut = anus. protostomes = mouth
deuterostomes - what is coelom formed from?
mesoderm that arises from invagination of the endoderm
circulatory sys in molluscs
open (except for cephalopods bc they're very active), haemocoel is blood-filled body cavity
mantle cavity - what exactly is it?
Open space surrounded by mantle tissue, contains ctenidia or other breathing aparatus
molluscs - ectocochleate and endochochleate
means shell on outside vs shell on inside (eg. most extant cephaopods)
cephalopods sensory organs
eyes, very good eyesight
chemoreceptors on head
how do bivalves produce their water feeding currents
cilliary action
scaphopods cf bivalves
use cilliary AND muscular action to create water current, HAVE radula, gills ABSENT (just use mantle?)
primitive gastropods reproduction
EXTERNAL fertilisation -> trochophore -> veliger -> metamorphosis and settlement.
advanced aquatic gastropods - reproduction
internal fert -> egg mass/ capsules -> veliger -> metamorphosis NO free swimming trochophre stage
reprod of advanced land gastropods cf aquatic ones
NO free swimming larvae (trochophore or veliger) - even in aquatic species. Baby snails hatch
cephalopods reproducton
direct egg dev in capsules, baby cephalopods (eg baby squid) hatch
Bivalves reproduction
external fert. trochophore and veliger larval stages, some end up hermaphrodites, some brood eggs
Ecdycozoa - what are they?
give 2 examples
Have external skeleton, and moult it to grow
nematoda, all arthropods( so trilobites, chelicerates, myriapods, crustacea, hexapods etc.)
Lophotrochozoa - two groups, name them
Trochozoa = ALL have trochophore larvae, though they end up looking vey different (it's that triangular-prisim like blob thing with cillia on the top, around the sides.. anus at bottom)
And LOPHOTROCHOZOA - have lophophore for feeding
lophophores - what kind of body plan? name one distinguishing feat.
triploblastic coelomate
have lophophore = crown of tentacles around mouth
both deuterostome and protostome features
Phylum Phorondia - name one dist. feat.
Are marine, worm like filter feeders,
have lophophore - tentacles around mouth
P Brachiopoda - what are they?
cf bivalves
Marine , 'lamp shells', filter feeders, dominant 550-250 mya, only 350 species left today
dif to bivalves bc use lophophore tentacles to feed (not ctenidia)
P Bryozoa - what are they?
2 things
Coelomate, mostly marine (some fresh), colonial - zooids prduced by asexual budding
P Bryozoa - 2 types of lifestyles/structures
Aborescent and encrusting(oft on the bottom of ships)
How is the lophophore of a bryozoan pushed out of its little box?
coelomic pressure forces it out, each zooid has a crown of these tentacles
P Echinodermata
3 dist features
calcaerous ENDOSKELETON (on inside), Pedicellariae, water vascular system, dermal branchiae, oral and aboral surface
is water vascular system in echinderms a part of the coelom?
what's it filled with?
yes
coelomic fluid
what are the external projections, used mainly for movement, in echinoderms called?
podia - tube feet
echinoderms - what are papullae and what are they used for?
also known as dermal branchiae - they are soft projections that stick out between the ossicles to the outside and are used in respiration
echinoderms - catch collagen
collagen between the ossicles that can be stiffened with nerve impulse so starfish etc. goes rigid
pedicellariae
little tiny pincers on the outside of the starfish, they help keep surface free of debris, protect papullae and sometimes help with catching food.
in echinoderms - ectoderm noncilliated or cilliated?
cilliated
madeporite
the pore that lets water in and out of the water vascular system
polian vesicle
bubble bit on ring of water vascular system, not in all sea stars though
Tiedemann's bodies
little pouch like bits on ring canal of water vascular system in echinocerms
echinoderms - reproduction
External fert. - one or more larval stages(free floating then attach to surface) - metamorphosis
are the larvae of echinoderms radial or bilateral?
adults what kind of symmetry
Bilateral,
pentradial
Class asteroidea
What Phyla?
what are they?
1 feat.
Sea stars
echinodermata
usu. 5 arms, ambulacral grooves along each arm (tube feet in groves for locomotion)
disc on oral surface but it's not pronounced
Class Ophuroidea
What phyla?
1 feat.
what do they lack that sea stars have?
Brittle Stars
echinodermata
jointed flexible arms used for locomotion, pronounced central disk,
NO AMBULACRAL GROOVES or pedicellariae
Class echinoidea
phylum?
one feat.
sea urchins
echinoderms
aristotles lantern, spherical - arms folded up into a ball (oral surface is outside)
long spines
how do brittle stars respire?
Have 5 pairs of bursae - invaginations that open to the outside by bursal slits on the ORAL surface
Class Holothuroidea?
= sea cucumbers
Class Crinoidea
Sea lillies and feather stars
when did metazoans originate (about)
colonial flagellated protoozoa
700 MYA in Precambrian
when and what was cambrian explosion
600 MYA
all major body plans were established, explosion of different animals
2 things that caused cambrian explosion
Ecological, geologic, genetic (mutations in Hox genes),
Tissue organ organisation - which animals
the middle bit of the phylogeny tree... the nemertans, flatworms and nematodes(?)
cell tissue organisation
cells are organised into distinct tissues - eg jellyfish and other cnidarians
what's the downside to cell specialisation?
greater vulnerability to injury - if a bit gets cut off can't as easily live
are multicellular organisms more or less energy efficient than their single celled counterparts?
less, milticellular organism (protozoan)are quite inefficient, BUT there are things like efficiencies of scale,avoidance of predation and specialised parts of body that make it worth it
eumetazoa - what are they?
all the multicellular animals EXCEPT SPONGES. Eumetazoa have germ layers and TRUE TISSUES, a digestive cavity and a mouth
how does a sponge digest food?
each cell digests food particles individually
are sponges old/young in evolutionary terms
Ancient - 700 MYA
also very diverse
the osculum is where the water goes ___in sponges
out - excurrent canal
what do porocytes and ostium in sponges do?
let water in - the porocytes surround the opening(the ostium)
what do choanocytes do?
are flagellated cells that create water current in sponges
outer layer of cells in a sponge called what?
Pinacoderm = pinacocytes (body wall cells) and Porocytes (cells lining the pores / ostium)
choanoderm contains which cells?
choanocytes, for creating water current in sponges
Archeocytes
Are free moving, totipotent, amoeboid cells that move around and do lots of things. totipotent = Can specialise and UNSPECIALISE which is weird and rare and strange
how do sponges reproduce?
mostly, when times are good, via asexual budding
when times are bad - sexually, sperm carried to nearby sponges where it fertilises eggs. Free swimming larva goes off and finds a new place to colonise
do sponges have gonads?
no.
Which is the best way to classify sponges ( most accruate in evolutionary terms)
By cell wall type and spicules
Asconoid sponge
Simplest - tube lined with choanocytes
Synconid sponge
Middle one - foldings of the body wall lined with choanocytes
Leuconoid sponge
most complex - incurrent canals lead to flagellated chambers lined with choanocytes
No pinacoderm (is Syncytial) -what kind of sponge is it?
Hexactinellida - venus's flowerbasket one
silaceous spicules
is Cellularia (has pinacoderm) - what kind of sponge, what classes?
Calcarea - calcarous spicules
Demospongiae - silaceous spicules
the only non - eumetazoan animals are ....?
sponges
what kind of cellular organisation do cnidarians have?
cell - tissue level
what kind of muscles do cnidarians have?
epitheliomuscular cells - longitudinal and circular
where are nerve cells in cnidarians located
below epidermis, near mesoglea
what kind of sensory structures do cnidarians have?
can perceive touch and chemicals
specialised recetors at specific sites
cnidocysts in cnidarians
contain nematocysts and used for prey capture
cnidarians -reproduction
alternating generations - usu. asexual polyp and sexual medusae form
all have a free swimming stage
sexual forms are dioecious
Class Anthozoa
Sea anemones and corals
don't have medusae, asexual and sexual
how do polyps differ from hydrozoans?
have mesentries, mesoglea has amoeboid cells, mouth leads to pharynx
zooantharia (hexacorralia)
anemones and most corals
have mutalistic zoxantellae algae
which corals have interconnection between the polyps
octocorals / Alcyonnarian corals - soft and hard corals
Class scyphozoa
which is dominant stage?
true jellyfish, medusae is dominant
Strobila stage in jellyfish
fixed to substrate, lost in some, free swimming ephyra breaks off and becomes jellyfish
class Hydrozoa - features, what kinds?
mainly colonial, eg portugese man o war, obelia
Phylum Ctenophora cf other jellies
comb jellies, true muscular system (antagonistic), getting towards radial symmetry - biradial
2 adv of a body cavity
more room for organs, more SA for diffusion of gasses, nutrients etc., storage area, oft. a hydo skeleton, helps w increased body size
foregut, midgut, hindgut - which are ectodermal? endodermal?
the midgut is endo, rest are ecto
phylum platyhelminthes - 3 things they have
bilateral Symmetry, acoelomate (mesenchyme is 'stuff' between endo and ectoderm), single opening to gut, free living (turbellarians) parasitic (the rest)
Nemerteans - 3 things
dorsovent flattened,
through gut with anus
most freeliving and predators,
cephalized
free living forms of platyhelminthes have what on outer layer
cilliated epidermis
parasitic forms of platyhelminthes have what on outer layer
non-cilliated syntical (many nuclei, one cell) tegument, helps evade host's detection
platyhelminthes what kind of excretory system
protonephridia - flame cells
platyhelminthes - what kind of NS?
have brain, longitudinal nerve cords, eye spots, statocysts
class monogea, class trematoda, class cestoda
first 2 are flukes,
tapeworms
turbellarians reprod
asexual - fission, cut them in half and they grow back
sexual - hermaphrodites, usu cross fertilise. penis fighting
what is body mainly filled with in flukes?
reproductive tissue
what is the definitive host?
where the parasite is mature and reprod SEXUALLY
intermediate host
where parasite develops and reprod ASEXUALLY = an increase in parasite without the need for sex
general life cycle of a trematode (chinese live fluke)
egg, miracardium (cillated larvae), sporocyst (M becomes this in I host), rediae(after asex reprod become this), cercariae (more asex reprod makes this)
do suckers on cestodes have hooks? what about on trematodes?
Yes
No
nematodes - what kind of digestive sys? cavity?
through gut (mouth and anus)
Pseudocoelomate
one def feat. of nematodes
non living protective cuticle
nematodes - respiration
no special kind of system, get all they need from diffusion as they're quite small
nematodes reprod
doiceious, sexual dimorphism, hermaphroditic(ovitestis), parthenogenisi - sperm stimulate egg but no genetic material exchanged,,,weird
nematomorpha and nematodes both have which kind of muscle
longitudinal only! = non directed movement
rotifers - part of what clade?
body plan?
reproduction?
gnathifera - all have muscular pharynx with hard jaws
pseudocoelomate
flexible reprod,
do molluscs have a body cavity?
yes, but it's reduced to a cavity around the heart (pericardial cavity)
main body cavity is the haemocoel which is filled by haemolymph and is the open circulatory system
what secretes the shell and also contains osphradia in molluscs?
the mantle
what supplies haemolymph the the ctenidia in molluscs?
the heart
what is the radula made of?
keraitn, is very tough
molluscs excretory sys?
is it water efficient?
nephridium - pericardial space (coelom) collects urine and it's exreted via the renopericardial canal - uses lots of water ~live in wet environs
molluscs NS
nerve collar in foot
lots of gangila around body
can be V highly developed
trochophore larvae
mollusc larvae (and annelids?)
is planktivorous
Class poluplacophora
describe shell
describe ctenidia
Chitons, 8 plated shell, Pallial groove (mantle cavity) contains many leaf-like ctenidia
Class Monoplacophora
old, mainly fossil group, repeated organs (possible link to annelids/segmented worms) eg 6 pairs nephridia, 5-6 pairs ctenidia, 8 pairs retractor muscles
class gastropoda
the SNAILS also limpets, slugs,
3 feat of gastropoda
Calcareous, COILED shell, torsion (180degree body twist during trochophore larva dev = head and anus end up beside each other)
sub class prosobranchs
respiration?
most gastropods are these, RESPIRE with leaf like ctenidia, incurrent and outcurrent flow are separated
Sub class opisthobranchia
respiration?
Aquatic slugs and nudibranchs,
shell and mantle cavity reduced or absent
ctenidia replaced by folded external gill(the fluffy bit atop nudibranchs)
sub class pulmonata
no ctenidia, vascularised mantle for breathing air
metamerism
segmentation, repeated segments
segmentation. pros - cons
pro - increases effectiveness of coelom for movement
con - decreases efficiency fo diffusion ~need circ sys
prostomium
pygidum
has brain and sense organs
segment with anus
chaetae
ANNELIDS only. made of chitin, can be attached to parapodia
Annelida circulation
closed haemal system
excretory sys of annelids
similar to molluscs, nephridia grouped tog into METANEPHRIDIA
annelids reproduction
clonal and sexual
spawn via metanephridia
trochophore larvae (like molluscs, evidence of shared ev history)
Class Polychaeta
2 things that distinguish
Well dev head and sense organs cf other classes,
each segment has pair of biramous parapodia (well primitively, some have lost them) variety of feeding modes
mobile (errant) or sedentary
Class oligochaeta
= few bristles
earthworms, NO parapodia, ARE hermaphroditic, Mainly terrestrial or freshwater, small single or double bristles - chaetae, Glandular clitellum that secretes egg cocoon
Class Hirudinea
3 things to define
the LEECHES. EW.
Clitellum, 1or2 suckers, hermaphrodite, carnivorous or ectoparasitic, FIXED number of segments, terrestrial or freshwater
leeches that attack mammals have... (name 2 things)
anaesthetic, anti-clotting agent, histamine to promote blood flow, antibiotics against foreign bacteria = which is why hospitals still use them!
Phylum Onychophora
What? name 2 dist feat.
paired appendages on each segment, segmentation of some systems (eg NS), Simple brain, thin cuticle, MOULTS, MANDIBLES, TRACHEAE - last 3 are like arthropods
what features to onychophorans share with athropods? with Annelids? name 2 from each
Annelids: segments, wormlike body, simple brain, thin cuticle,
Athropods: Moults? Mandibles, tracheae
Phylum Tardigrada
2 things
Coelomate, protostome, water bears
aquatic or moist environments, simple brain, through gut, capable of cryptobiosis
what are tentacles in Class holothuroidea used for?
how do they breathe ?
= sea cucmbers, used for feeding, respiritory tree for breathing (unique to echinoderms)
in class crinoidea what are the tube feet used for?
feeding only!
Phylum Hemichordata
thought to be chordates then that was revised. have proboscis, collar trunk - those worm-like things
5 chordate things
dorsal tubular nerve cord, notochord, pharyngeal slits, endostyle, post anal tail
nerve tubed formed by what?
infolding of the neural plate = why it's hollow too
what do adult ascidaceans still have of the 5?
2 other things
endostyle (for food catching mucous), pharyngeal slits - to filter food,
heartbeat reversal and high levels of weird metals. hermaphroditic
sub P cephalochordata
lancelets!
bottom dwelling filter feeder, sexes separate from here on (?)
Planktotrophic larvae
ammocete
larvae of lampreys
Class Myxini - hagfishes, 4 things
no paired appendages, no jaws, naked skin, fibrous cartilage skeleton, differentiated brain, iso osmotic, slime as defence
Class Chondrichtyes
sharks skates and rays - cartilaginous fishes, polyphondant teeth = constantly replenishing, Placoid scales
Class actinoptergii
ray finned fishes
class sarcoptergyii
2 eg
lobe-finned fishes
lungfishes, coelacanths
Class Amphibia - order gymnophonia
caecilians - limbless, internal fert, tail short or absent (as op to legless lizzards with long p anal tail)
order Anura - something unique
only amphibian with exernal fertilisation, lateral line replaced by ear, colour vision,
disadvantage of amniotic egg
needs internal fert
can't be laid in water or the baby will drown
scales of reptile cf scales of a fish
reptile scales are keratinised, epidermal (fish = bony, dermal)
order testudines
2 things
turtles, jaws with keratinised beaks, secondarily anapsid
reproduction in birds
left ovary only, testes cyclic
precocial young = mature when hatched
skeletal adaptations for flight
fused clavicula, keeled sternum for muscle attachment (keeps centre of gravity low), fused fingers in wings, fused ankle bone
feathers are homologus to____
reptile scale
heterodont teeth
diphodont
more than one kind eg molars, incisors
have baby teeth and adult teeth