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4 features of a chordate |
1. Dorsal hollow nerve cord 2. Notochord 3. Postanal tail 4. Pharyngeal gill pouches |
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Urochordata- animal examples |
Tunicates; sea squirts |
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Urochordata- larvae and adult |
Larvae motile; sessile filter-feeding adults |
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Urochordata- where found |
Marine (rocky, intertidal) |
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Walter Garstang's Hypothesis (1928) (disproved mufuka) |
-Ancient tunicate-like larvae failed to metamorphose into sessile adult and retained juvenile characteristics -Vertebrates evolved from this ancestral paedomorphic dude -Molecular evidence does not support this |
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Cephalochordata; example; where found; sessile or motile adults? |
Lancelets; coastal sandy bottoms; motile |
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Cephalochordata- incorrect name that stuck through time |
Amphioxus |
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Vertebrates share common ancestry with urochordates or cephalochordates? |
Cephalochordates |
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Axial skeleton |
Cranium, vertebral column, ribs, sternum |
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Appendicular skeleton |
Everything else not associated with girdles |
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Subphylum: Vertebrata. Vertebral column made of: |
Bone or cartilage |
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Notocord |
Most lose notochord after embryogenesis; most ancient retain notochord |
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"Fishes" |
Polyphyletic with 5 classes Oldest lineage back to Cambrian |
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Which is the "big" group in verts? |
Fishes |
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Fish: scales and regulation |
Ectothermic w/wo scales |
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Circulatory system of fish? |
Single circuit; 2 chambered heart |
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Which senses are well developed in fishes? |
Olfaction; vision |
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Diadromous |
Live in 2 environments at diff times in life cycle |
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Anadromous |
Freshwater-Marine-Freshwater |
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Catadramous |
M-FW-M |
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Superclass Agnatha |
Jawless; Hagfish and lampreys; cartilaginous (ancient) Pore-like gill openings persistent notochord |
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Class Myxini |
Hagfish-means slime Scavengers Mouth surrounded by small tactile "barbels" |
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Class Petromyzontida |
lampreys Buccal funnel with horny teeth mostly anadromous some are parasitic on other fish |
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Petromyzontida larvae called |
Ammocoetes |
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Superclass gnathostomata |
Jawed verts Ancestors were jawless |
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Jaws in gnathostomates modified from? |
First gill arches |
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Class Chondrichthyes |
cartilaginous fishes Subclass Elasmobranchii and subclass Holocephali |
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Subclass Elasmobranchii |
sharks skates rays Internal fertilization-oviparous, viviparous, ovoviviparous Have elasmobranchs |
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Subclass Holocephali |
Chimeras- ghostfish, ratfish |
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"Osteichthyes" |
Contains classes Actinopterygii and Sarcopterygii |
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Class Actinopterygii |
Distinguishing features; lepidotrichia All have operculum |
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Tail plan of most Actinopterygii vs ancient |
Homocercal; some ancient taxa with a heterocercal tail |
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Are scales of reptiles and actinopterygii homologous? |
No, analagous |
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Family of sturgeon? |
Acipenseridae |
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Class Sarcopterygii |
Bony but lack lepidotrichia operculum present |
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2 groups of Sarcopterygii? |
Coelocanths, Lungfishes (branchial and pulmonary respiration, lungs homologous with tetrapods) |
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lineage of sarcopterygii considered to be ancestral to tetrapods? |
Osteolepiforms from Subclass Rhipidistia |
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Tetrapod Line marked by which class? |
Amphibia |
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Tetrapods |
Amphibians were first Extant amphibians: Lissamphibians Share common ancestry with osteolepiform rhipidistians |
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Subclass Lissamphibia |
Frogs salamanders caecillians Monophyletic Dual life history Adult-egg-metamorph-adult.. Mostly ovoviviparous |
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Circulatory system of amphibians |
3 chambered heart; 2-way circulatory system |
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Chromatophors (present in amphibia) |
Pigment cells which allow for color changes |
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Orders of amphibia |
Anura Caudata Gymnophiona |
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Anura |
Mostly viviparous; some ovoviviparous |
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Amplexus |
Pre-copulation event of some aquatic breeding anurans |
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Order Caudata |
Salamanders Many paedomorphic Male deposits spermatophore; female implants into her cloaca. fukn rumantiq Ensatina=example of ring species- example of incipient speciation |
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Gymnophiona |
mostly blind as adults dumbazs worm-like things |
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Viviparous |
Live birth |
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Ovoviviparous |
Produce eggs that hatch within the body |
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Oviparous |
Eggs hatch after laid |
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Amniote tetrapods |
Includes anapsid, synapsid, and diapsid linneages |
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amnion |
fluid filled sac around embryo, ectodermal and nonvascular "my water broke" |
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Chorion |
Encloses entire embryonic system beneath shell membrane; ectodermal and non-vascular |
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Yolk sac |
Surrounds yolk, vascularized endodermal, vascularized |
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allantois |
vascularized waste receptacle which eventually fuses with chorion to form chorioallantoic membrane embryonic toilet |
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In humans, what is the chorioallantoic membrane? |
Placenta |
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amnionic egg diagram |
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Anapsid |
0 temporal openings turtles and tortoises |
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synapsid |
1 temporal opening mammals |
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diapsid |
2 temporal openings liz, snakes, tuatara |
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What is the only anapsid that retains its temporal opening post birth? |
Tuatara |
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What is an apomorphic trait of reptiles |
Scale-y, keratinized epidermis |
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Order Testudines |
Only surviving anapsids turtles and tortoises all oviparous |
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Orders of reptilia |
Testudines- turtles and torts Crocodilia-cros, gators, caimans, gharials Sphenodonta- tuatarans Squamata- liz and snakes |
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Order squamata |
liz and thnaketh males have hemipenes ball and socket vertebral elements hemipenes secrete sperm plug plus gelatinous mating plug |
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Lizards |
Fused mandibular rami External auditory meatus |
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Snakes |
No external auditory meatus unfused mandibular rami forked tongue |
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Jacobson's organ |
Organ in roof of snake mouth- chemo reception |
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Pit vipers have ___ ____ which act as heat sensors |
Loreal pits |
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Human origins |
Family name Hominidae Extinct genera: Australopithecines |
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What is one significance of Lucy? |
Marks split between gracile and robust hominids chimps and homo split about 7 mya |
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who finna ace dis shhit |
us |