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| Portion of kidney most important to freshwater fishes |
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| Glomeruli (for filtration) |
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| molecule that detoxifies urea in cartilaginous fishes |
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| TMAO(trimethylamine oxide) |
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| swimming mode that uses undulations of a long anal fin |
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| Gymnotiform (MPF: median and/or paired fin locomotion) |
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| type of fish that spends its life in the ocean and comes to freshwater to spawn |
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| fish that lives in ocean and spawns in freshwater would have a high salinity range and would also be called a ___ species |
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| swimming mode that only uses body and caudal fin |
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| name of vertebral opening that caudal vein passes through |
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| what is proper notation for fish that has 10 spines and 3 rays in its anal fin |
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| what is structure found primarily on dorsal surfaces of most cartilaginous fishes that allows water to enter the buccal cavity for respiration |
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| swimbladder provides what type of lift |
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| name of blood vessels that create circumstances that allow swimbladder to be filled with gas |
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| name of muscles on upper half portion (above midline) of fishes body |
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| name one of BCF modes that uses almost none of the body and only caudal fin body |
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| name of blood vessel that leaves fishes heart |
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| name of structure where several blood vessels merge and enter heart as single unit |
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| heart chamber that provides primary thrust to blood |
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| circulatory system of which group of fishes allows mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in heart and blood vessels |
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| another name for cavity between jaw and gill chamber in fish |
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| name of phenomena that causes hemoglobin affinity to decline with changed in pH |
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| name of phenomena that causes hemoglobin to not be able to reach 100% saturation in the presence in high CO2 |
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| type of fishes with large stomach |
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| type of fishes with short intestine |
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| in fishes, what organ produces the digestive enzymes that are used in the intestine |
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| type of intestine used by elasmobranchs (sharks) |
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| Fish group that never drinks |
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| Fish group with aglommerular kidney |
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| Fish group that is hypoosomtic to external environment |
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| Fish group with rectal gland |
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| marine cartilaginous fish |
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| Fish group with dilute urine |
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| Fish group with alpha chloride cells |
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| Fish group with beta chloride cells |
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| Fish group that is isosmotic |
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| marine cartilaginous fish |
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| Which is true osmoconformer: hagfish or dogfish |
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| Hagfish because they are stenohaline (tolerate narrow range of salinities in external environment) and restricted to seawater. Cannot regulate itself. |
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