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1. Intro To Vertebrates Flashcards

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What are vertebrates

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Diverse group of animals with a backbone

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How many classes of vertebrates are there

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5

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What are the classes of vertebrates

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Fish,bird, mammal, reptiles, and amphibians

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How can you tell vertebrates apart from invertebrates

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Vertebrates possess a notochord and/or vertebral

column along with other character traits

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What is the most diverse group of vertebrates to the least

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Fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals

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How many species of fish are there

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about 26,000

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How many species of birds are there

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about 9,100

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How many species of reptiles are there

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about 7,000

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How many species of amphibians are there

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about 4,800

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How many species of mammals are there

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about 4,500

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How many vertebrate species are there

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about 51,400

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What class is the majority of the vertebrate species and the percent of it

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Fish and 51%

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How long did it take to create our current diversity

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500 million years

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How long ago did we have the most diverse group of animals

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12-14 million of years ago

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What is our current diversity ratio

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1:100 / living:extinct

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Vertebrates are found in what habitats

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All habitats

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17
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What sizes do vertebrates range from

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0.1g to 100,000kg

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18
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Anatomical, how many sections of planes are there

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3

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What is the midsagittal plane

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right/left

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What is the frontal (horizontal) plane

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top/bottom

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What is the transverse (coronal) plane

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front/back

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What is parasagittal

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Planes of section parallel to midsagittal

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Where is Dorsal, ventral, cranial, and caudal located

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Top, bottom, front (anterior/rostral), and back

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Where is anterior, posterior, superior, and inferior located

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Front, back, top, bottom

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25
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Why do we use directional terms

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it helps us describe locations regardless of the animal position (human terms are slightly different)

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Distal vs proximal

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Proximal is closest to the midsagittal plane.

Shoulder is proximal to elbow/elbow is distal to shoulder, however elbow is proximal to index finger

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Superficial vs. deep

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Outside toward the inside

EX. Going threw layers of skin and coming out on the other side. superficial → deep→ deep → superficial

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Flexion vs extension

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Extension is straightening movement that increases the angle between body parts
EX. arm going 90 degrees to 180 degrees

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Abduction vs. adduction

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Closing jaw= adducting

Opening jaw=abduction

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Pronation vs. supination

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Pronation= palms down

Supination=palms up

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Protraction vs retraction

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Protraction= tongue out

Retraction=tongue in

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What is Palmar, plantar, and

Dorsal (hands & feet)

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Palms, bottom foot, top of hands and feet

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33
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What are the 4 eons

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Hadean (molten rocks),
Archean (ancient rocks), Proterozoic (early life)
and the Phanerozoic (visible life)

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What do we divided the eons up as

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Precambrian & Phanerozoic

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35
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Which eon(s) contains vertebrates

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Phanerozoic

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36
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How many eras are in the Phanerozoic and what are they called

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3, Paleozoic (old life), mesozoic (middle life), and cetiozoic (recent life)

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What are eras divided up into

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periods

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38
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What period did the first vertebrate appear in

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cambrian

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39
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What happened when the continent shifted

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Ocean circulation and atmosphere changed
Influenced evolution of vertebrate groups
Effected distribution or biogeography

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40
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Why did mass extinction happen

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due to the climate change

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41
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What period and era did amphibians occur

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Devonian and Paleozoic

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What period and era did reptiles occur

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Carboniferous and Paleozoic

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What period and era did birds occur

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Jurassic and mesozoic (Gondwanaland and laurasia)

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What period and era did mammals occur

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Trassic and mesozoic

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45
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After what era did we almost lose all life and how much life did we lose

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After Paleozoic and 80%

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When did we lose dinosaurs and what is it called

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After mesozoic (cretaceous [Gondwanaland brakes up] ) and the KT boundary

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What makes the start of a new era

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after a mass extension happened

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48
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Describe cambrian

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shallow/warm seas, 540 million years ago, Paleozoic era

49
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Describe permian

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Shallow seas gone, drier climate,290 million years ago, Pangea, Paleozoic era, mass extinction event,

50
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The periods in geological order

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Cambrian (540), ordoviciam (490), silurian (443) , devonian (417), carboniferrous (354), permian (290), trassic (248), jurassic (206), cretaceous (144), tertiary (65), quarernary (1.8)

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Describe cetiozoic

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cool climate, repeated glaciation events and people

52
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Phylogeny:

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the course of evolution

53
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Dendrograms:

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represent relationship along evolutionary course via comparative method.
EX.historic & modern

54
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What do Phenetic and Cladistic trees do

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represent true evolutionary relationships.

55
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Phenetic trees:

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use characters similar in appearance

56
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Cladistic analyses

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use homologous characters regardless of appearance

57
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Whos responsible for our modern day deflation of homology and was a curry for vertebrates at British natural museum of history

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Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)

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How can you summarize the course of the evolution of a clade back to its ancestor

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through comparison of homologous characters

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Homologous characters:

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are the basis of cladistic analyses

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Homology:

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features or parts that share a common ancestry through vertebrate evolution

61
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Analogy:

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features or parts that share a common ancestry through vertebrate evolution

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Homoplasy:

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features or parts that look alike but do not share function or ancestry (camouflage/mimicry)

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What do the same habitats result in

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similar selection pressures to animals of varying history

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Selection pressure:

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any cause that reduces reproductive success in proportion of the population

65
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Analogous structures and homoplasy

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Things tend to look alike because there sharing functions, which, Animals with different evolutionary histories find different solutions to similar problems

66
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Who made Binominal Nomenclature

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Linnaeus (Systema Naturae: 1735-1758).

67
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what is Binominal Nomenclature and what is it based on

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Genus species (Itallized ) and latin

68
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Hierarchical Groups

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Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

69
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Family always end in what letters

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dae

70
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A sub family always ended in what letters

A

nae

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How do taxa get placed in groups

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based on common characteristics; decreasing inclusiveness

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Cladistical Analyses

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Based on the premise that modern organisms are derived from their ancestors (yield multiple phylogenetic trees)

73
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Pleisiom orphies:

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ancestral characters

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Apomorphies:

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derived characters

75
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Synapomophies:

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shared derived characters

76
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Outgroup:

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nearest related group not included in group of interest

77
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Sister group:

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adjacent clades

78
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5 Basic Steps to Creating a Cladogram

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1.) What characters are primitive to all (pleisiomorphies)?
2.) What characters are derived (apomorphies)?
Are some shared (synapomorphies)?
– usually yes
3.)Select all synapomorphic characters common to a clade
4.) Higher clades = fewer common characters
5.)Parsimony

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What makes a strong hypothesis in a cladistical analyses

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a tree with the fewest changes

80
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Monophyletic Groups:

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The Ideal Tree

81
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Monophyletic:

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single ancestor for each group

82
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Polyphyletic:

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> 1 ancestor for each group; classification error

83
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Paraphyletic:

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> 1 ancestor for each group contains some but not all ancestors. Two immediate ancestors (I & A), restructure tree to represent entire ancestry, collect more fossils

84
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Two requirements for cladistics

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homologous characters and monophyletic groupings

85
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Whats the shape of evolution

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Bushy shrub not a ladder; evolution is not progressive

86
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Vertebrate Phylogeny

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Summarizes both vertebrate diversity and evolutionary relationships

87
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Eu mean

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good/true

88
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A means

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no/none

89
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Phylum Porifera:

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sponges-no true tissues

90
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Radiata:

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Phylum Cnidara and Ctenophora

radial symmerty, diploblastic (have two types of tissue)

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Bilateria:

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Several Groups/Many Phyla

bilateral symmetry, triploblastic

92
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Bilateria groups

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1.Acoelomates(no body cavity): Platyhelminthes-flatworms
2. Pseudocoelomates – mesoderm doesn’t
completely line body cavity
3. Coelomates – mesoderm lines entire body cavity

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What is a Chordate?

A

Animals with a deuterostome developmental plan

and 4 specific synapomorphies

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Deuterostome developmental plan

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radial cleavage, indeterminate cell fate
enterocoelous type of coelom development
blastopore develops into anus

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Chordate Characteristics (4):

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  1. Notocord
  2. Pharyngeal sltis
  3. Dorsal/hollow nerve cord
  4. Post anal tail
    Each character must appear at some point in
    the life cycle but do not have to occur simultaneously
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Notocord

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Semirigid-elastic rod that runs cranial-caudal dorsal to the coelom but ventral to nerve cord
Develops from gut outpocket

97
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What does the Notocord do

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Provides mechanical support for a body w/o an endo or exoskeletal system.
Many invertebrates are supported by a hydrostatic skeleton; true for protochordates

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What is the Notocord composed of

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mesodermal cells and fluid encased in a fibrous collagenous sheath.
The notochord itself is a hydrostatic organ and uses pressure to provide rigidity.
Collagen fibers wound in a helix around the perimeter controls

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Why is the Notocord flexible

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allows side to side undulations of locomotor muscles.
Muscles cannot lengthen independently; NC provides such antagonistic forces.
Resists compressive and tensile forces, allows some bending

100
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What doesnt have a Notocord

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Notochord is replaced in bony fish and terrestrial vertebrates by vertebral column.
Persists in embryonic development.
Persists as nucleus pulposus in adult vertebrates

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Pharyngeal Slits

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Longitudinal series of openings in the pharynx

102
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Pharynx:

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space between the mouth and the esophagus.

Part of the digestive tract

103
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What do the Pharyngeal Slits appear

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Slits or clefts always appear during embryonic development in all vertebrates, pharyngeal slits may not persist beyond developmental stage

104
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What do Primitive chordates do

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expand the pharynx to form a branchial basket.
Large water filering clevise for suspension feeding.
Increase the number of slits and line the surface with mucous; cilia

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Pharyngeal Slits- Larger vertebrates need another feeding mechanism

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pharynx becomes a pump activated by muscles not cilia.

Allows more water and larger prey to enter mouth

106
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In fish, the gills (respiratory structures) lie just superficially to the slits

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pharyngeal pump used to pump water over adjacent gills.
Additional resiration fx.
Important evolutionary jump; increases locomotion capability

107
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Dorsal Hollow Nerve Cord

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Derived from ectoderm tissue.

108
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protostomes:

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scattered origin and ventral position

109
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Neurulation:

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formation of the neural tube (neurula).
Notochord cells induce invagination of the ectoderm to form a neural placode/plate.
Stage after gastrulation.
Neural plate cells roll into a tube, fuse and sink below surface

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Neurocoel:

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empty cavity, filled with fluid (CSF in mammals)

111
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Neural crest cells:

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will differentiate into portions of the nervous system and parts of the head and face (vertebrate feature)

112
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Post-anal tail:

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(notochord, segmented axial musculature)
Posterior elongation of the body caudal to the anus
Ex: locomotion

113
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Phylum Chordata

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Invertebrate Chordates
tunicates/sea squirts
cephalochordates/ lancelets

114
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Fish:

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Agnathans: jawless fish
Gnathostomes: jawed fish
 -Placoderms:armored fish
- Chondrichthyes: sharks & rays
-Osteichrnyes: bony fish
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Tetrapods:

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amphibians: frogs salamanders

116
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Amniotes:

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reptiles: turtles, alligators,
snakes, lizards, dinosaurs
Birds:
Mammals:

117
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What separates Vertebrates from Chordates?

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4 chordate synapomorphies in addition to vertebrate synapomorphies.
Usually a closed circulatory system, more efficient metabolism, and active lifestyle, muscular pharyngeal pump & larger food items

118
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Vertebrate Synapomorphies

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  • Vertebrae and vertebral column (except hagfish & lamprey; Craniata).
  • Vertical semiarcular ducts (inner ear)
  • Increased cephalization; cranium w/increased sense organs
  • Duplication of the hox gene complex
  • Neural crest cells & placodes
  • -3 part brain, including a cerebral cortex

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