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Tunicates and Lancelets
Fish
Amphibians
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Veritable Vertebrates
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This is another name for a tunicate.
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What is a sea squirt?
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At some point in their life all chordates have one of these.
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What is a hollow nerve cord and a tail?
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Although tunicates and sea squirt are chordates they are still these.
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What are invertebrates?
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This was the precursor to the backbone.
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What is the notochord?
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Tunicates and lancelets are considered to be the link between these two evolutionary groups.
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What are invertebrates and vertebrates?
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Fish use these to breathe.
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What are gills?
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This group of fish include hag fish and lampreys.
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What are jawless fish?
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This adaptation allowed fish to become deadly predators.
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What are jaws?
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With out this a fish would not be bouyant.
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What is a swim bladder?
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Osteichthyes are also known as these type of fish.
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What are bony fish?
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The reason why amphibians have slimy, thin skin.
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What is because they have to breathe through it?
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The opening in which wastes and reproductive cells pass through.
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What the cloaca?
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Adult amphibians use these to breathe.
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What are lungs?
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Amphibians are called these because they cannot internally control their own body temp. 30
What is ectotherm or cold blooded?
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Adaptations that helped amphibians move out of the water.
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What are strong limbs, lungs and moist skin?
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What is osteichtyhes or bony fish?
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What is a newt or amphibian?
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What a reptile or sea turtle?
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What is a spiny anteater or monotreme?
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What is a golden monkey or placental mammal?
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This is the main source of heat for ectotherms.
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What is the environment?
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This is a charateristic that all chordates share.
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What is a notochord?
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The most complex of hearts have this many chambers and loops.
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What is a double looped four chambered heart?
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This type of skeleton is made of living cells and grows with the animal.
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What is an endoskeleton?
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Vertebrate use this organ to filter out wastes from the blood.
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What is the kidney?
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Reptiles
Special Adaptations
Birds
Herbivore, Omnivore or Carnivore?
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Mammals
The reason why reptiles move into and out of the sun.
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What is so they can regulate their body temperature or because they are cold blooded? 57
Reptiles seem to be most closely related to this group of vertebrates. 58
What are birds?
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This has a hard outer covering, contains a a yolk sack for the developing embryo. 60
What is an amniotic egg?
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Dry scaly skin and amniotic egg are adaptations which allowed reptiles to do this. 62
What allowed reptiles to move out of the water?
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Most reptiles cannot live in these type of climates.
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What are cold environments?
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This developed as means of protecting the nerve chord.
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What is the backbone?
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This trait allowed animals to be more active but they had to eat much more to keep up their metabolism.
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What is endothermy?
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In birds these structures were adapted from scales. 70
What are feathers?
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The amniotic egg allows for the exchange of these two gases. 72
What are carbon dioxide and oxygen?
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This allows primates to make and use tools because they can grasp object easliy. 74
What is an opposable thumb?
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A trait which all bird share.
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What are feathers?
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Diversity in these features allow birds to eat many different kinds of foods. 79
What are beaks?
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These enable birds to have highly efficient respiratory systems, allowing them to sustain flight. 81
What are air sacs?
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When a bird lays an egg it passes through this opening. 83
What is the cloaca?
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Birds must have these to support large chest muscles used in flight. 85
What is a large strong breast bone?
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What is an carnivore?
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What is an herbivore?
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What is an omnivore?
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What is an carnivore?
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What is an omnivore?
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The number of chambers a mammals heart has. 97
What is four?
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The strong muscle which aids in mammals breathing. 99
What is the diaphram?
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Two adaptations which help mammals stay warm. 102
What is hair/fur and subcutaneous(body) fat? 103
Sharp large canines with jagged molars and premolars. 104
What are carnivore’s teeth?
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Three groups of living mammals.
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What are monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals? 107