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Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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tail that is symmetrical

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homocercal

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2
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upper lobe of tail is bigger than the lower lobe

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heterocercal

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3
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the discipline that relates a structure to its function

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functional morphology

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natural mechanism for determining which animals would survive and which would not

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natural selection

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5
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scientists replace the terms lower and higher with

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primitive and derived

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a kind of biological blue print, a supposed underlying plan upon which an organism was built.

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archetypes

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embraces the study of form and function, of how a structure and its function become an integrated part of an interconnected design, and of how this design itself becomes a factor in the evolution of new forms

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morphology

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two or more features that share a common ancestry

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homology

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9
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two or more features that have similar function

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analogy

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10
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two or more features that simply look alike

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homoplasy

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11
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similarity between successively repeated parts in the same organism

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serial homology

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refers to a body that is laid out equally from a central axis

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radial symmetry

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13
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the body is divided into to symmetrical sides

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bilateral symmetry

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14
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the plane that divides the bilateral symmetry of an organism

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midsagittal plane

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15
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head

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anterior

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16
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tail

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posterior

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17
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back

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dorsal

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18
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front or belly

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ventral

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19
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midline of the body

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medial

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20
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sides of body

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lateral

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21
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farthest away from main part of body

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distal

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22
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closet to main part of body

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proximal

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23
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chest

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pectoral region

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24
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refers to hips supporting hind limbs

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pelvic region

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25
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divides a bilateral body into dorsal and ventral sections

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frontal plane or cononal plane

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26
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splits body into left and right portions

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sagittal plane

27
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separates the body into anterior and posterior portions

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transverse plane

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each repeated section is referred to as a

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segment or metamere

29
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the process that divides a body into sections

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segmentation or metamerism

30
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these sequentially subdivide the hydrostatic skeleton into a series of internal compartments

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septa

31
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the course of evolution

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phylogeny

32
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graphic schemes, summarization of evolutions course

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dendrograms

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termed for such long intervals of unchanged evolution occasionally interrupted by short bouts of rapid change

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quantum evolution

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the earlier or ancestral state of a character

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primitive condition or plesiomorphic trait

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later or descendant state after transformation

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derived condition or synaphomorphic trait

36
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simply named group of organisms

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taxon

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one that accurately depicts a group that exists in nature resulting from evolutionary events

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natural taxon

38
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one that does not correspond to an actual unit of evolution

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artificial taxon

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the taxon most closely related to the group we are studying

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sister group

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was meant to be an expression of the degree of change or level or adaptation reached by an evolving group

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grade

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a lineage

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clade

42
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places together organisms with similar or homologous characteristics

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traditional systematics

43
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places together organisms belonging to the same clade

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phylogentic systematics or cladistics

44
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a hypothesis about the linages and their evolutionary relationships

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cladogram

45
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the assortment of taxa we are interested in

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ingroup

46
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is close to but not part of this assortment and is used as a reference

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outgroup

47
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a clade that includes an ancestor and all its descendants but only its descendants

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monophyletic

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groups formed on the basis of nonhomologous characters

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polyphyletic

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groups that include a common ancestor and some but not all of the descendant are

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paraphyletic

50
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the smallest clade that includes all living members of a group, and any fossils nested within

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crown group

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the set of extinct taxa that are not in the crown group but are closely related to the crown group than any other

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stem group

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together the crown group and stem group make up the

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total group

53
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the electrical record of a muscle

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electromyogram

54
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coined to recognize the importance of ecological analysis in the examination of a morphological system

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ecomorphology

55
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this guy brought attention to the function that parts performed. he argued that organisms must be understood as functional wholes. did not agree with Darwin

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George cuvier

56
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remembered for many scientific contributions including monographs on comparative anatomy, and agreed greatly with Darwin’s ideas

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Thomas huxley

57
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coined natural selection as a means for evolution of organisms

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Charles Darwin

58
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English anatomist who belived like cuvier that species were immutable but felt that the correspondence between parts was based on archtypes

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Richard Owen

59
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lines blood vessels, lymph vessels, heart

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endothelium

60
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lines body cavities and covers organs

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mesothelium

61
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is duct unbranched/branched

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simple vs. compound

62
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shape of secretory cell area

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tubular vs alveolar

63
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exocytosis vs cell rupture

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merocrine vs holocrine

64
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a unicellular gland

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goblet cells

Anatomy (18 decks)

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