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Where did Tetrapods originate from? |
Lobe-fin Fishes |
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Tetrapods need what in order to survive? |
1. Well Developed lungs 2. Be able to support their bodies w/ limbs 3. Strong jaws to become predators |
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Class Amphibia example & Phylum |
Phylum Chordata Example = Frog, Salamander, Newt |
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What are some features for Class Amphibia? |
4 digits per limb, gills when young but lungs when older, breathe across skin, NO scales, and some are toxic |
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A three chambered-heart is a feature most associated with? |
Class Amphibia |
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A three chambered heart allows for ______ circulation which is from heart to body, as well as _______ circulation which is from heart to lungs. |
1.Systemic 2. Pulmonary |
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Give an example of how Class Amphibia lay eggs & include any limitations that may/not be there |
Most Amphibians are still tied to the water and as a result must lay eggs in the water, which limits them to water as juvinilles but as adults the development of lungs allows them to become terrestrial EX: Frogs must lay eggs in water = tadpole |
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What order does this organism belong to? What Class? |
Order Gynophiona |
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List several features of ORder Urodela |
Salamanders: 1. long tail, short legs 2. feed on insects 3. must reproduce in water 4. some tied to water perm. = newt |
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What order does this organism belong to? |
Order Urodela - Salamander |
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Order Anura includes _____ animals within Class ______? |
1. Frogs & Toads 2. Amphibia |
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Amniota are what exactly? |
Amniota are a key feature of mammals, reptiles, and birds that are not tied to the water and can therefore lay their eggs on land. Allows for a complex shell with a hard outer layer and internal membrane called the amnionq |
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Class Reptilia's key characteristics are...? |
1. Scales from the epidermal layer 2. 5 digits 3. Ectothermic and thus rely on outside heat 4. Uric acid used for waste |
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Only two species of this order still remain & can live to be VERY old...have 3 eyes! |
Tuatara |
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What two members belong to order Squamata? |
Lizards and snakes |
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I belong to what Order? |
No not slytherin but SQUAMATA |
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Feature of Lizards? |
Movable eyelids and flexible jaws |
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Features of snakes? |
legless, highly flexible jaws, NO eyelids, Jacobson's organ used in smelling, and Pit organ used as heat sensor |
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Jacobson's Organ? |
Allows the snake to pick up chemoreceptors with its tongue and translated into smell |
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Pit Organ? |
Allows the snake to see where to strike based off of heat radiation |
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What is an example for Order Testudine? |
Turtles (heyyy it's franklin the MOFO turtle!) |
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Order Crocodilia |
Crocodiles, Alligators, and Gharials |
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What is most likely the reason the dinosaurs are no longer with us? |
Asteroids |
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Echinoderms examples |
starfish, brittle star, basket star, sand dollar, and sea urchin, and sea cucumber |
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What Phylum do I belong to? |
Echinodermata & I am a sea cucumber |
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Brittle stars & Basket Stars belong to what class & phylum? |
Phylum = Echinodermata Class: Ophiuroidea |
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Sea urchins & sand dollars belong to what class? |
Echinoidea |
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Class Holothuroidea example |
Sea cucumber |
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What am I?? |
Arrow worm - Chaetognatha |
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Ants, bees, and wasps all belong to what order? |
Hymencptera |
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Butterflies and Moths belong to what order? |
Lepidoptera |
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Beetles belong to what order? |
Coleptera |
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True flies like house flies belong in what order? |
Diperta |
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What is the notochord? |
cartiliginous rod running underneath the dorsal nerve chord |
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What is the Dorsal nerve chord? |
Hollow bundle of fibers that turns into the brain at one end, hold nerve chord |
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What are pharyngeal slits? |
Act like gills and allow for capture of particles for feeding |
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Endostyle is similar to what...but does what? |
Similar to thyroid and allows for particle capture |
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Post-anal tail is what? |
Allows for swimming to be easier |
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Tunicates belong to what subphylum? |
Urochordata |
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Describe the life cycle of Tunicates |
Swim when young, and don't feed, then settle & become adults and do not move and filter feed |
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A salp is looks ____ and _____ shaped and _____ for defense |
1. translucent 2. barrel 3. squirt |
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Cephalochordata are what exactly? |
Lancelets are a great example |
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Hagfish belong to what phylum? |
vertebrata! |
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Hagfish belong to what class? |
Myxini |
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Class petromyzcntida common name? |
Lampreys |
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A shark would belong to what Class due to what feature? |
Chonodrichthyes & because of jaws & scales |
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Rays & skates belong to what class? |
Chonodrichthyes |
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What does the swim bladder do? |
Allows for bouancy and moving up and down in water column |
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A sun fish is an example of what class & why? |
Class Actinopterygii & because of ray-fins |
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The pokemon relicanth would belong to what class? |
Sarcopterygii |
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What characteristics define a mammal? |
True hair, mammary glands, and large brain, 4-chambered hearts |
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A short digestive tract means that the diet of the mammal is rich in ________ |
Protein |
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What is a cecum? |
This is a portion of the digestive tract that has micro organisms to breakdown cellulose to better digest grass, etc. |
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What is the Rumen? |
A chamber of the stomach that allows for food to be predigested, thrown up, and rechewed cows, deer, etc. |
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What are the three types of reproduction in Class Mammalia? |
1. Monotremes - egg layers (platypus) 2. Marsupials - short fetus time long nursing time (kangaroos) 3. Placental - long uterus time but short lactation time (most mammals) |
