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What are choanoflagellates?

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single-celled eukaryotes that are the ancestors of animals

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When did the first animals begin evolving?

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Before the cambrian explosion

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What are appendages?

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structures such as legs or antennae protruding from the body

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What does the cladogram represent?

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The current understanding of relationships among animal phyla

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What does the non chordate invertebrate cladogram represent?

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current hypotheses about evolutionary relationships among major groups of modern invertebrates

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what does porifera mean literally?

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pore bearers

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Key characteristics of porifera

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  • multicellular, heterotrophic, lack cell walls, have some specialized cells
  • aquatic, lack true tissues and organs, internal skeletons of spongin, spicules of calcium carbonate or silica, no body symmetry
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key characteristics of cniderians

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  • aquatic, carnivorous, specialized tissues, radial symmetry

- tentacles have stinging cells called nematocysts for feeding

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key characteristics of arthropods

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  • segmented bodies, jointed appendages, exoskeletons made of chitin
  • coelomate protostomes with bilateral symmetry
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key characteristics of nematodes

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  • unsegmented worms with an outer cuticle that molts
  • one way simple digestive system
  • protostomes with a pseudocoelum
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key characteristics of annelids

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  • coelomate protostome worms
  • segmented with internal partitions
  • digestive system has two openings
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key characteristics of mollusks

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  • soft bodies with a muscular foot
  • hard shell secreted by the mantle
  • coelomate protostomes with bilateral symmetry
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key characteristics of echinoderms

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  • marine animals with spiny skin around an endoskeleton
  • tube feet with suction cup ends
  • water circulatory system
  • coelomate deuterostomes
  • 5 part radial symmetry
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key characteristics of non vertebrate chordates

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  • no backbone

- have a nerve chord, notochord, pharyngeal pouches, and a tail that extends beyond its anus

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key characteristics of fishes

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  • aquatic vertebrates

- paired scales, fins and gills

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key characteristics of amphibians

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  • means double life
  • live in water as larvae and on land as adults
  • breathe with lungs, lack scales or claws, have moist skin that contains mucous glands
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key characteristics of reptiles

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  • ectothermic vertebrates with dry scaly skin, lungs and amniotic eggs
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key characteristics of birds

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  • endothermic reptiles with feathers and hard shelled amniotic eggs
  • two scaly legs and wings
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key characteristics of mammals

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  • endothermic vertebrates with hair and mammory glands that produce milk for their young
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key characteristics of platyhelminthes

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  • soft worms with tissues and organ systems

- three embryonic germ layers, bilateral symmetry, cephalization, acoelomate

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what is a larvae?

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immature stages

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what is a trochophore?

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free swimming larval stages

23
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what is pikaia?

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the earliest chordate known from the fossil record

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what is myllokunmingia?

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the earliest known vertebrate

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5 groups of vertebrates

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  1. fishes
  2. amphibians
  3. reptiles
  4. birds
  5. mammals
26
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nonvertebrate chordates:

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tunicates and lancelets

27
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jawless fishes with vertebrae

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hagfishes and lampreys

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cartilaginous fishes with jaws and paired appendages

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sharks + relatives

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bony fishes with true bone

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ray-finned fishes

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lobe-finned fishes with lungs

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coelacanths and lungfishes

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amphibians with four limbs and amniotic egg

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frogs and toads, salamanders, caecilians

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reptiles

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turtles, tortoises, lizards, snakes, tuatara, crocodiles

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endothermy

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mammals and birds

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evolutionary development of chordates in order

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  1. vertebrae
  2. jaws and paired appendages
  3. true bone
  4. lungs
  5. four limbs
  6. amniotic egg
  7. endothermy
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what are tetrapods?

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four-limbed vertebrates

36
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what are the three main groups of mammals?

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monotremes, marsupials, and placentals

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what is a monotreme?

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a mammal that lays eggs (platypus and echidna)

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