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dorsal nerve cord
pharyngeal pouches
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| stiff but flexible rod that extends the length of the body and provides an attachment site for muscles |
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urochordata
cephalochordata
myxini
vertebrata |
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| tunicates, sea squirts, invertebrate, filter feeder, immobile adult, mobile larvae, larvae have chordate characteristics |
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| lancelets, gill slitted pharynx, a simple brain/nerve cord, segmented muscles, filter feeders |
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| hagfish, jawless, cranium made of cartilage plates, no bones, nearly blind, sensory tentacles to find food, mucus producer |
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| verterbral column, skeleton = bone or cartilage, jaws, chamber for the brain, gills, modified heart |
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| DAILY slugishness where metabolic rate slows |
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| SEASONAL hibernation usually in summer |
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| fish, gill capillaries--> body |
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| amphibians, RA + LA empty into one ventricle where oxygenated + deoxygenated blood mix together --> body |
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| mammals, RA --> RV --> lungs --> LA --> LV --> body |
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petromyxontiformes
chondrichthyes
osteichthyes
amphibia
reptilia
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mammalia |
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| lampreys, true vertebrates, freshwater and marine, jawless, some parasitic |
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| cartilagenous fish (sharks), cartilage skeleton, 5-7 gill slits, 2CH, leathery skin |
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| ampulla of Lorinzini detect E energy, Lateral line system - detect change in water pressure, very strong sense of smell, sophisticated immune system |
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| bony fish, most diverse group, swim bladder, 2CH, operculum, all separate sexes (external fertilization) |
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| coelecanths, ancestors to amphibians |
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| double life, metamorphosis, 3CH, lungs replaced gills in adults, skin = respiratory organ, external fertilization (int salamanders), bony skeleton c limbs |
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| aquatic have external gills, summer estivation (frogs = winter), terrestrial develop lungs |
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| snakes, lizards, turtles, alligators, crocodiles, internal fertilization, lay eggs (amniotoc eggs), 3CH, ectothermic, continued skeletal development, snakes = pelvic girdles, jacobson's organ = taste air, lungs more developed |
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| birds, distinguished by feathers, adapted for flight, hollow bones, some bones absent, shelled egg, feathered wings, endothermic, high metabolic rate, efficient lungs, elastic air sacs, 4CH, advanced nervous system, flightless birds almost always on islands |
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| animals with hair, females secrete milk from glands, skull = larger brain and teeth, care for their young, 3 groups montremes, marsupials and placental mammals |
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| lay amniotic eggs, young lick up milk secreted from sweat glands |
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| kangaroos, koala bears, opossum, young are born immature, crawl to a pouch, attach to a nipple |
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| dominate/diverse group, placenta, long term dependancy, every continent but antarctica |
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