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3 Characteristics of Animals

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Motile, Heterotrophic, and Multicellular

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Heterotrophic

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Ingests nutrients and stores it as glycogen

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What organism did animals evolve from

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Choanoflagellates

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Choanoflagellates

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Single cell attached to a stalk and has a flagellum that sweeps for food

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Bifurcation

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Division of ancestral line into two branches

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Radial

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Multiple mirror images, similar to pizza

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Bilateral

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One mirror plane, usually some cephalization

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Cephalization

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Has a head of sensory reception

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Radiata

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Organisms with radial symmetry and are diplobastic

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Diploblastic

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Having two tissues

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Triploblastic

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Three Layers

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Diploblastic Layers

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Ectoderm and endoderm

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Triploblastic Layers

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Ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm

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Mesoderm creates

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Muscles and Internal organs

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Protostomes

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Develop the mouth first in the digestive track, have spiral cleavage, and are determinate

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Deuterostomes

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Develop the anus first in the digestive track, have a radial arrangement, and are indeterminate

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Protostomes include

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Mollusks, arthropods, and annelids

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Deuterostomes include

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Chordates and echinoderms

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Gastrulation (slide 19)

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the development of tissues

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Induction

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Embryonic cells trigger the differentiation of cells

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Hox genes

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Determine the basic structure of an organism

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Phylum Porifera

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Parazoa, includes sea sponges

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Parazoa traits

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Have two layers of epithelial cells but lack true tissues

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Phylum Cnidaria

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Includes corals, jellyfish, and anemones

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Cnidaria means

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stinging thread

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Cnidaria Traits

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Trues tissues, radial symmetry, two germ layers, and no complete digestive tract

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Cnidaria larval stage

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Planula

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Nematocysts

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Stinging cells located in organisms of phylum cnidaria

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Hydrozoans

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Jellyfish

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Coelom

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A fluid lined body cavity separating the gut from the outer wall

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Psuedocoelomates

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Body cavity is not entirely lined by mesoderm and forms between the mesoderm and endoderm

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True Coelom

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body cavity lined with mesoderm

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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Flatworms; Triploblastic, bilaterally symmetrical, have no true coelom but have first true mesoderm

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Tapeworms

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P. Platyhelminthes; Have a scolex, division into body segments, lost digestive tract

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Scolex

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Oral hooked attachment of tapeworms

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Proglottids

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Body segments of tapeworms

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Phylum Nematoda

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Round worms; soils and parasitic worms, have a false coelom, helps make the hydrostatic skeleton

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Kidney worm

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P. Nematoda; live in mammal kidneys and come from fish and frogs

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Ascaris lumbricoides

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P. Nematoda; human roundworm that lives in the stomach

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Hook worm

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P. Nematoda; burrows into toes causes diarrhea, pneumonia, and anemia, and affects 800mil-1.2bil people

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Caenorhabditis elegans

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P. Nematoda; model organism

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Phylum Mollusca

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Have the most body variation of animals, have a shell and include 50,000 to 120,000 species

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Mantle

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Formed by the dorsal epithelium and it secrete calcareous spicules or one or more shells

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Radula

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Circular band of teeth in the esophagus for feeding

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Gastropods

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P. Mollusca; includes snails, sea slugs, nudibranchs and is the largest class of the phylum

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Gastropod means

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stomach foot

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Bivalves

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P. Mollusca; have a two valved shell with a hinged ligament controlled by an adductor muscle and lack cephalization and a radula

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Zebra Muscles

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Highly invasive species of bivalves that are located in Lake Erie especially

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Cephalopods

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P. Mollusca; includes octopi, squid, nautilus, and cuddle fish

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3 cephalopods traits

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a radula, mantle cavity, and foot

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Cephalopods brain

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Fused ganglia encased in cartilage

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Shell

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slide 75

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Cephalopod eye

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sophisticated and can perceive shape, color, brightness, and texture

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Chromatophore and Indiocytes

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Allow color change in cephalopods

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Phylum Annelida

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Segmented worms; include earth worms, Polychaeta, and leeches

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Chitinous Setae

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Bristles on the exterior of annelids

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Leeches

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Have a posterior sucker, most lack satae and are mostly ectoparasitic

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Phylum Arthropoda

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Most diverse and numerous phylum; has segmented and jointed chitinous exoskeleton

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Motile Cilia are

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lost by arthropods in larval stages

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Tagmatization

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Specialization of groups of segments, especially on arthropods

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Compound Eye

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Eye composed of cells that each send separate signals to the brain

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Subphylum Chelicerata

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Phylum Arthropoda; include arachnids, horseshoe crab, and sea spiders; No antennae and have 2 distant body portions

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Chelicerea

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First pair of appendages on subphylum Chelicerata modified for feeding

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“Widow” Spiders

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produce neurotoxin, can be lethal

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“Recluse” Spiders

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produce necrotic toxin, causes severe skin irritation

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Evolution of venom between spiders and scorpions

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convergent evolution

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Subphylum Mandibulata

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Phylum Arthropoda; contains insecta, crustacea, myriapods, and chelicerate

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Class Myriapods

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Phylum Arthropoda; many legs, all uniramous

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Order Chilopoda

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Phylum Arthropoda; centipedes; one leg per segment, some have ocelli, and some are poisonous delivering git with a modified leg

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Class Diplopoda

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Phylum Arthropoda; millipedes; way more diverse than Chilopoda, have two pairs of legs per segment, and aren’t poisonous but can have cyanide glands

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Class Crustacea

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Phylum Arthropoda; head bears 5 appendages including 2 antenna

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Class Crustacea larval form

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triangular nautilus that has three pairs of appendages and a single medial eye

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Order Stomatopoda

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Class Crustacea; mantis shrimp that are vicious bottom dwelling carnivores and have 8 pairs of legs, one for smashing

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Decapods

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Class Crustacea; lobsters and crabs

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Class Insecta

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Phylum Arthropoda; most successful animals, have wings, three pairs of legs, and 3 main body segments

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3 main body segments of insects

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head, thorax, and abdomen

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Beatles

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most diverse of insects and hypothesized to have evolved withangiosperms

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5 main reasons of success of insects

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  1. small size and short generation
  2. coevolution with hosts
  3. inhabit micro-ecosystems
  4. developed flight
  5. resource partitioning
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4 times flight evolved

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insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats

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Resource Partitoning

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larvae and adults eat different food

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Head

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sensory reception and food intake

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Thorax

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3 segments, contains legs and wings, and controls movement

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Abdomen

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reproduction, digestion, and excretion

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Chitin

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protein that adds structure to exoskeleton

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Insects evolved from

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long segmented worm

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Molting

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when insects undergo shed their casing to reveal a larger form

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What percent of insects undergone metaphorphosis?

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86%

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Spiracle

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how insects receive air

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Elytron

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the hard outer shell (front wing) of a beetle

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Legmen

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leathering hard casing over wings on grasshoppers

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Are echinoderms and chordates deuterostomes or protostomes

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Deuterostomes

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Phylum Echinoderm

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include sea stars, brittle stars, and sea urchins; sessile slow moving animals that have bilateral larvae

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4 characteristics of chordates

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Notochord, dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and postnatal tail

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Notochord

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a flexible rod just below the nerve cord to provide support

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Dorsal Nerve Chord

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a sheet of ectoderm forming a hollow nerve chords that becomes the brain and spinal cord

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Pharyngeal Slits

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opening in pharynx for water to exit prior to digestion

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Postnatal Tail

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at tail past the anus during some stage of development

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Vertebrata

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Subphylum of chordates; animals with vertebral column, have lungs, legs, amniotic eggs, hair, etc

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Chephalochordata

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Subphylum of chordates; lancets burrowing filter feeders

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Urochordata

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Subphylum of chordates; tunicates and sea squirts

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Verbrata Cephalization

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pronounced and the anterior portion of the nervous system is in a protective case

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Evolution of Jaw

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pharyngeal slits evolved bones with evolved teeth

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Evolution of Legs

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evolved from lobe finned fishes

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Aquatic Mammals

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evolved legs and then fins again

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First reach of dry land

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365 MYA

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Evolution of Amniotic Egg

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shell keeps water in and the membrane system allows nutrient and gas exchange which led animals to reproduce on land

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Amnion

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inner membrane in amniotic egg surrounding amniotic cavity and provide and protects the embryo

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Amphibia

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amphibians

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Reptilia

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reptiles

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Aves

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birds

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Mammalia

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includes monotremes, marsupials and placentals; have hair, mammary glands, and three bones in the inner ear

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Placental Mammals

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reproduce/have a placenta

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Monotreme Mammals

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have no nipples and lay eggs

114
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When did the genus homo arise?

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2.5 MYA

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When did the species sapiens arrive?

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200,000 YA

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Humans

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Class Mammalia; Homo sapiens

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Tetrapods

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animals that walk on land

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Eumetazoa

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animals having true tissues, include everything but sponges

119
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Coral bleaching is the result of the loss of ______________ from the ___________ coral in which they live.

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zooxanthellae ; anthozoan

120
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Both protostomes and deuterostomes have:

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true muscles

121
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C. elegans is a nematode worm that is a useful model organism in genetics. As a nematode, it has a(n) _______________. In genetic studies, individual genes can be “turned off” by using small pieces of siRNA to degrade a complementary mRNA, therefore, preventing ______________of a specific gene.

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complete digestive tract / translation

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At the eight-cell stage of embryonic development, mollusks have cells that are _________ and amphibians have cells that are _____________ .​

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determinate, indeterminate

123
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Which of the following animals retains all of the chordate characteristics into adulthood?

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Lancelets

124
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Which of the following organisms is NOT a member of subphylum Vertebrata?

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Lancelets