animal/plant groups and viruses Flashcards
vestigial
a structure that has evolved to become small that is irrelevant
matamorphosis
changing from a larva with one body form to an adult with a different form
fish
vertebrates with scales
have gills throughout their life
have fins
their eggs have no shell and are laid in water
amphibians
vertebrates with skin
their eggs have no shell and laid in water
tadpoles live in water, adults live on land
tadpoles have gills for gas exchange, adults have lungs
reptiles
vertebrates with scaly skin
they lay eggs with soft shells
birds
have feathers, or sometimes scales
have a beak
front 2 limbs are wings, not all can fly
lay eggs with hard shells
mammals
have hair on their skin
their young develop inside a uterus
females produce milk to fee their young
different kinds of teeth
have a pinna on the outside of the body
have sweet glands on the skin
have a diaphragm
types of arthropods
arthropods, insects. crustaceans, arachnids, myriapods
arthropods
an animal with jointed legs but no backbone
have exoskeleton
insects
3 pairs of jointed legs
2 pairs wings
breathe through trachea
body is divided into a head, thorax abdomen
1 pair of antennea
crustaceans
more than 4 pairs of jointed legs
2 pairs of antennea
arachnids
arthropods iwth 4 pairs of jointed legs
have no antennae
body divided in 2- cephalo thorax and abdomen
myriapods
consists of many similar segments
each of their body segments has joined legs
1 pair of antennae
ferns
are plants with roots, stems and leaves
do not produce flowers
reproduce by spores produced on the underside of their fronds
flowering plants
are plants wiht roots, stems and leaves
reproduce using flowers an seeds
seeds are produced inside an ovary in the flower