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When did primates diverge?

65 mya

Name of "group" that has lemurs and tarsiers

Prosimians

Prosimians

Lemurs and tarsiers

Interesting primate behaviours

Altruism


Tool use


Cooperation (?) (Ask if we want this Inc.)

Bonobo

Pan paniscus

Chimpanzee

Pan troglodytes

Archonta

Incorrect classification.


Pendulous penis with a reduced sheath etc...

Non primate tool users

Burrowing wasp


Otters


New Caledonian crow

What was wrong with Archonta

Included bats

Why do arboreal animals tend to have forward facing eyes

Depth perception

Chiroptera

Bats

Bats

Chiroptera

Which digit is first?

Thumb

What's the reason for low intelligence cooperation

Kin selection

When did amniotes diverge

320 mya

Precocial

Young that are capable. Ducklings. Can shiver and move about n all.

Capable young.

Precocial

Altricial

Lazy ******* chicks. Can't even shiver. Completely reliant.

Young completely reliant on parents

Altricuial

3 major mammal branches

Monotremes


Therians


Placental

When did mammals diverge

180 mya

Allometric scaling eqn

R = R1 M^(ß)

Marsupials

Therians

Therians

Marsupials

Monotremes

Platypus and echidna

What tradeoffs did placental mammals have in relation to therians/monotremes?

Longer gestation time, shorter weaning time.



Overall organism "ready to go" faster

Milk functions

Nutritive


Immunological


Hormonal control

"Lactating" avians

Pidgeons

What is "crop milk"

Cells swollen with fat and protein which bud off and are fed to young.

Eulemur

True lemur

True lemurs

Eulemur

Bush baby

Otolemur

Otolemur

Bush baby

Xenarthra-


Anteaters, Armadillos, Sloths

Saltatorial

Designed for leaping (idk, I'm just upset about fossorial)

Afrotheria

Laurasiatheria

Eurachontoglires

Rabbits, hares, etc

Lagomorpha

Elephants, just them :(

Proboscidia

Sea cows (only including this because its funny)

Sirenia

Even toed ungulates

Cetartiodactyla

Dolphins, whales

Ceteans

Odd toed ungulates

Perissodactyla

Why not just eat grass, everybody?

Finding easy, but low nutritive value, difficult to digest and assimilate

Tree shrew (of interest due to its relation to primates)

Scandentia

Biggest group by number of species

Rodentia

What are cows?

Yeast farms

How do fish adapt to herbivory?

Beaky mouths, pharyngeal jaws, possible fermentation

Land adaptations to herbivory

Fermentation, constantly growing teeth, sideways jaw movement

4 chambered stomach

Ruminant

What group contains the ruminants?

Cetartiodactyla

Are ruminants foregut or hindgut fermenters?

Foregut

When did cetartiodactyla diverge

50mya

4 Chambers names

Rumen


Reticulum


Omasum


Abomasum

Foregut feeding style

Feed periodically in large amounts

Hindgut feeding style

Feed continuously in small amounts

Fun extra thing foregut does in camels

Reprocesses urea

Who are the pseudo-ruminants?

Kangaroo- 2 Chambers


Hippo- 3 chambers

Are proboscidae fore or hind gutters?

Hind, pathetic bastards, no wonder there's no more proboscidae about

Mammal defining features (5)

Jaw bone is a single (dentary) bone


Endothermic


3 middle ear bones


Milkers


Hairy bastards

Nane 3 middle ear bones

Malleus, incus, stapes

Why are prototheria weird?

Eggs

Two names for egg laying mammals

Prototheria and monotremes (monotremes are the extant species)

Two names for marsupials

Therians, metatheria

Two names for "normal" mammals (idk how to say this without giving it away)

Eutheria, placental

Prototherian features (6)

Abdominal testes


Nipple-less sweat milk


No corpus callosum


No external ears


No placenta


Carry eggs in temporary pouches supported by epipubic bones

Echidna

Tachyglossus

Platypus

Ornithorhynchus

Metatheria traits

No corpus callosum


Ear enclosed in bony bulla from alisphenoid bone


Marsupial eggs have no shell, some yolk, and lots of albumen

Non-fused digits

Diactylous

Many front teeth

Polyprotodont

Fused digits

Syndactyly

Syndactylous metatherian

Bandicoot

Two toes

Diadactylous

Two front teeth

Diprotodont

Eutheria defining features (5)

Yolkless, retained eggs


Placenta w/trophoblast layer


Birth at advanced stage. Suckled


Middle ear protected by bony bulla (never alisphenoid)


Yes corpus callosum

Weird thing tenrecs retained

Cloaca

Do metatherians have cloacas?

Yes

Do prototherians have cloacas?

Yes

Do eutherians have cloacas?

No, with the exception of the tenrec

Chrysochloridian adaptations for fossorial living (4)

Short legs


Powerful digging claws


V. dense fur (repels water and dirt)


Toughened skin

Tip toe walkers

Digitigrade

Walk on soles

Plantigrade

Strange sloth teeth fact

Not replaced in their lifetimes. Not even the milk -> adult teeth thingie

Just primate tings (OK soz this pic is ****)

When are lemurs active

Nocturnal

Lemurs and lorises

Prosimii

Prosimii features

Cleft upper lip


Furry, inexpressive face


Only naked on rhinarium


Lateral nostril opening


Opposable thumbs


Kinda sideways eyes

Region around nostrils

Rhinarium

New world monkeys

Cebidae/Platyrrhine

Old world monkeys

Cercopithidae/Catarrhine

Nostrils close and pointed downward

Catarrhine

Nostrils sideways and wide spaced

Platyrrhine

Platyrrhine

Catarrhine

Eat **** or die

Coprophagy

4 major membranes of the amniotic egg

Amnion


Yolk-sac


Shell membrane and Shell


Chorioallantois

Stages of hatching

Access air cell


Break shell

Does environmental moisture affect hard or soft shells more

Soft-


Larger hatchling


Better hatchling locomotor performance

Distinctive amniote ankle bone

Astragalus (talus)

Rib-related change in amniotes

Sternum evolved (but lost in some)

How's the pelvic girdle attached in amniotes

By at least two sacral vertebrae

Jaw articulation joint in reptiles

Quadrate

Jaw articulation joint in mammals

Squamosal

0 skull fenestra

Anapsid

1 skull fenestra

Synapsid

2 skull fenestra

Diapsid

Diapsid which lost upper bar

Bird

Diapsid which lost lower bar

Lizard

Diapsid which lost both bars

Snake

Diapsid which lost no bars

Tuatara

Why have a bony palate

Separates nose and mouth for sucking, breathing while chewing



In croc reinforces jaw for crushing

Cranial kinesis

Upper jaw moves independently

Scrolls of bone in nasal cavity

Turbinate bones

Why have turbinate bones

Prevent water loss

Hot females (in your area)

Turtles

Hot males (in your area)

Tuatara

Middle temp males

Crocodiles

If a crocodile develops in middling temperatures, what will they be?

Male

Turtles

Testudinata

Dorsal part of a testudine shell

Carapace

Ventral part of a testudine shell

Plastron

2 suborder of testudines

Pleuorodira


Cryptodira

Cryptodira

Mid sagittal plane fold in head retraction

Pleurodia

Fold laterally under shell

Are pleurodira or cryptodira purely freshwater?

Pleurodira

Tuatara

Rhynchocephalia

This isn't in the spot test but guess what "rhyncho" of "rhynchocephalia" (tuatara) fane means?

Beak/snout.


I dunno about you guys but at no point did I think of a snout while looking at this dude. Least snouted individual ever.

Weird third eye thing

Parietal eye

Teeth without sockets

Acrodont

Acrodont

Teeth without sockets

Crocodiles

Crocodilia

Crocodilia families

Alligatoridae


Crocodylidae


Gavialidae (gharial)

Thecodont teeth

In sockets

Teeth in sockets

Thecodont

How do crocs move in water

Lateral undulation

Lizards and snakes

Squamata

Bruh I'm not learning the suborder of squamata

There's so ******* many. Abd it's all like: Iguanas-Iguanidae

Iguanas

Iguanidae

Skinks

Scincidae

Snakes

Serpentes

Geckos

Gekkota

Wall lizards

Lavertidae

Chameleons

Chamaeleonidae

Monitor lizards, gonnas etc

Varanidae

Dragon lizards

Agamidae

Cloacal slit squamata

Transverse

Scientific word for overlap

Imbricated

Pleurodont teeth

Fused to jaw bone

Teeth fused to jaw bone

Pleurodont

Difference between og tail and replaced one in squamata

It's replaces with cartilage, not bone

What do squamata piss out

Uric acid

Squamata penis name

Hemipenes

Virgin birth name

Perthenogenesis

What's good about vivipary for snakes?

Helpful in cold climates

Ireland only lizard name:

Viviparous lizard


(Zootoca vivipara)

Did you know I can make words big?

And also bold?


Now you do.

Lizard hibernation thingie

Brumation

Idk wormy reptiles

Amphisbaenidae

What do amphisbaenidae eat?

They're carnivorous

What's reduced in amphisbaenidae?

Right lung

Serpentes senses

Poor hearing


Good vision


Excellent olfaction


Pit organs- infra red heat sensitive

Smell organ in snakes

Jacobson's organ

Name of scale covering eye in serpentes

Spectacle

What allows snakes to sense infra red heat

Pit organs

Poison that attacks nerves

Neurotoxin

Cytotoxin

Attacks cells

Poison that attacks muscles

Myotoxin

4 types of snake locomotion

Lateral undulation


Concertina motion


Rectilinear movement


Sidewinder movement

(Lateral undulation in lectures)

Chelonian

Turtles

Sphenodon

Tuatara

What lung do snakes have

Right


Sometimes left but it's tiny

Variable body temp

Poikilotherm

Maintain stable body temp

Homeotherm

Switch between poikilotherm and homeotherm

Heterotherm

HSP

Heat shock proteins

What do HSPs do?

Catalyse protein folding after translation, and cab refold denatured proteins

Heat shock response

Production of more HSPs in response to extreme temperatures

Exchange heat from external sources

Ectotherm

Exchange heat from internal and external sources

Endotherm

Where do endotherms get heat

Fron environment and metabolism

Where do ectotherms get heat

Environment

How do insects generate heat for flight

Thermogenesis


Rapid flight muscle contraction in thorax

Rapid flight muscle contraction in thorax

Thermogenesis

Types of endothermy

Homeothermic


Regional


Facultative

Facultative endothermy

Only when needed- bees

Regional endothermy

Conserve heat to increase endurance- tuna

Homeotic endothermy

Most mammals. No turning it off. Always packing that heat 🔫🔫🔫

Name of caterpillar fuzz

Setae

Goosebumps

Piloerection

Laurasiatheria

Mammal characteristics

Hairy


Milk from sweat glands


Only one jaw bone (dentary)


Endothermic


3 ear bones (malleus incus stapes)

Touch based senses i think?, idk I don't get it. If anybody could explain it to me that'd be lovely.

Somatosensory

Mole nose organs

Eimer's organs

What do Elmer's organs do

Very good at semsing touch. Found in moles.

Crescent shaped ridges on teeth

Selenodont


(Easy to remember cause like selene is moon things)

What is a cannon bone

Fused metatarsals and metacarpals fused proximally

What the **** did you guys read the bit about prongbuck having horns with an outer sheath made of fused hair? What the ****?

Idk I just think it's ******

Deer

Cervid

Cow

Bovid

New ******** detected: apparantly parvorders exist.

What are whales divided into?

Tooth vs baleen


Odontoceti vs mysticeti

High crowned teeth

Hypsodont

Hypsodont

High crowned teeth

Amphisbaenidae lifestyle

Fossorial