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What is Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy?

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The study of vertebrates from an anatomical, Morphological, and evolutionary POV.

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What is Morphology?

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The study of the structure of organisms and their interactions between each other.

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The study of how an organism grows- Usually related to an evolutionary aspect.

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Ontogeny.

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“Old-Saying” meaning you can observe evolution by investigating the developmental change and phases and organism goes through.

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“Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”
Not a 100% true statement but very helpful to investigating phylogeny.

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Theory describing evolutionary relationships between organisms.
“The Study of evolutionary relationships.”

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Phylogeny.

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Gives birth to live young developed within the parent organism:

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Viviparous

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Produces young by laying eggs that then hatch outside the parent.

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Oviparous.

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The Mammoth and elephant are two different species that are expected to have come from a common ancestor, what is this an example of?

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Divergent evolution.
Diverged from a common ancestor.

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Koalas and humans both have unique fingerprints. We do not share a common ancestor, what is this an example of?

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Convergent evolution.
Similar traits without shared ancestry.

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10
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8 Taxonomic ranks from most broad to specific

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-Domain
-Kingdom
-Phylum
-Class
-Family
-Genus
-Species.

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What are the four/ five characteristics of chordates?
What does this mean?

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-Notochard.
-Dorsal Hollow Nerve Cord.
-Endostyle.
-Post anal tail.
-Pharyngeal slits.
All Chordates will posses these traits at some point within their life/ development even if not all at the same time.

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What are the two closest relative phylums to chordates?

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-Echinoderms
-Hemichordates

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Two defining characteristics of echinoderms?

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-5 sided radial symmetry
-Water vascular system.
(Use seawater instead of blood in a hydraulics fashion.)
EX: Sea stars and sea urchins.

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4 characteristics of Hemichordata:

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-Stomochord (like a rudimentary notochord.)
-“worm-like” body
-Dorsal nerve cord (sometimes hollow)
-Epidermal nervous system
EX: Acorn worms.

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What are the 3 subphyla or chordata?

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  • Urochordata
  • Cephalochordata
  • Vertebrata
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Marine invertebrate chordates that do not retain all chordate traits at once and generally only keep the pharyngeal slits and endostyle?

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Urochordata
EX: Tunicates or sea squirts.

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Marine invertebrate chordates that have all 5 chordate traits throughout their life and are commonly used in diagrams because of this?

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Cephalochordata
EX: Lancelets/ Amphioxus.

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What is the notochord?

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A rod like structure made of a “cartilage-like” substance “rudimentary backbone”

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What is the endostyle?

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Ciliated Organ in invertebrate chordates that assists in filter feeding by secreting mucoid proteins.
This corresponds to the thyroid in most vertebrates.

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Function of pharyngeal slits?

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Respiration, & filter feeding- mostly in tunicates.

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21
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What is the first skeletal structure to develop within chordate embryo?
What is it’s placement?

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Notochord: Dorsal to digestive tube and ventral to nerve cord. This will induce how the nerve cord forms.

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What two classes of animals in chordata completely lose the notochord into adulthood?

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Reptiles and birds.

23
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What happens to the notochord in development of mammals?

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It becomes part of the intervertebral discs. The nucleus pulposus.

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What is the nucleus pulposus?

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Gelatin middle layer of vertebral discs and what remains of the notochord.

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What is the Annulis fibrosis?

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The outer layer of vertebral discs made of fibrocartilage.

26
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Strong, tough, and inflexible cartilage made of thick collagen fibers.

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Fibrocartilage.

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Are chordates the only phylum to possess a nerve chord?

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No, however only chordata has a dorsal hollow nerve chord, while other nerve chords are likely to be ventral, such as arthropods and annelids.

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The disc between the amniotic and yolk sac that will become the fetus within the amniotic sac.
What are it’s layers?

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The Trilaminar disc. It’s layers are the ectoderm, mesoderm & endoderm. These three layers define a triploblastic organism.

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What is the process of neurulation?

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This is one of the earliest steps in nervous system development where the cells in the dorsal neuroectoderm above the notochord go through rapid mitosis and form a concave neural groove that eventually closes up into the neural tube.

30
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Name this Process

Shown in Transverse plane!

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Neurulation W/ Neural groove.

31
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What is something the occurs at the same time as neurulation which leads to the ball of cells looking like a fetus within the amniotic sac?

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Embryonic folding

Saggital Vs. Transverse planes.

32
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What is the Pre-structure before the neural tube?

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Neural groove.

33
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Which organisms neurulate differently and what is different?

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Agnathans & Neopterygians.
They will form a neural keel instead that will then form the Neurocoel and detach from the dorsal ectoderm creating the hollow dorsal nerve.

34
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What is the neural keel?

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The wedge shaped structure made from ectodermal cells that will differentiate into the hollow nerve cord. A different neurulation process used by Agnathans & Neopterygians.

35
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What is this process?

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Neurulation W/ Keel.

36
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What is unique to vertebrata?

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They will always have a distinguishable head, trunk, and Tail.

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What are vertebrate tetrapods, what is something they possess?

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An organism with four feet/ limbs.
They will a possess a neck.

38
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Developmental processes resulting in formation of the head?

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Cranialization or cephalization.

39
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What are jawed vertebrates called?

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Gnathostomata.

40
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What will the head contain in vertebrates (4)?

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The brain, specialized organs, +/- jaws (Gnathostomata.), +/- gills.

41
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What are agnathans and why are they in vertebrata?

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Jawless fish. They still have a well defined head have sort of rudimentary vertebrae made of cartilige, or could be able to form vertebrae.
They are known to be the earliest vertebrates.

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What is the central region of the body called?

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The trunk.

43
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What is the coelom?
What is made from?
What surrounds the coelom?

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A structure (usually embryonic) that is a fluid filled cavity that will go on to house visceral organs.
The coelom is formed by the mesoderm and surrounded by the body wall (vertebra, ribs, and somatic muscles.)

44
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What is something terrestrial vertebrates started to possess in early evolution?

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Neck.

45
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What are the two groups of symmetry in animals, which is specific to vertebrates?

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Radial and bilateral.
Bilateral in vertebrates.

46
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Which Body Plane?

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Transverse

Separates Cranial and Caudal parts.

47
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Which Body Plane?

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Dorsal plane
or, Frontal Plane
& Coronal plane in humans.

Separates ventral and dorsal regions, posterior and anterior in humans.

48
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Which Body Plane?

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Mid Saggital.

49
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Which Body Plane?

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Para Sagittal.

50
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What vertbrate feature is caudal to the trunk?

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The post anal tail.

The tail is posterior to the anus.

51
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What is metamerism? Name an example:

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A serial repetition of structures along the long axis of the body, more prevalent during development. EX: Ribs.

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