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Chp 34 Origin and Evolution of Vertebrates Flashcards

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What are vertebrates?

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Animals that have a backbone (vertebrae)

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When did vertebrates colonize land?

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365 MYA around the Cambrian period

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What animals did vertebrates give rise to?

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  • amphibians
  • reptiles (including birds)
  • mammals
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How many vertebrate species are there?

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More than 57,000 species

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What group comprise of all vertebrates and two invertebrates?

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Chordates

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What are chordates (phylum Chordata)?

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Bilaterian animals that belong to the clade of animals known as Deuterostomia

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What two groups of invertebrates are apart of Chordates?

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  • Urochordates
  • Cephalochordates
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What are the 4 key characteristics of chordates?

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  • Have a notochord
  • dorsal, hollow nerve cord
  • Pharyngeal slits or clefts
  • Muscular, post-anal tail
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What is special about chordates characteristics

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  • Only some species show these characteristics during embryonic development
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What is the notochord?

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Longitudinal, flexible rod between the digestive tube and nerve cord

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What does the notochord provide?

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Provides skeletal support throughout the length of a chordate

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What is the dorsal, hollow nerve cord?

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Developed from a plate of ectoderm that rolls into a tube dorsal to the notochord

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What does the nerve cord develop into?

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Developes into the central nervoue system: brain and spinal cord

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What are pharyngeal slits/clefts?

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Grooves in the pharynx that develops into slits that open to the outside of the body

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What are the functions of the pharyngeal slits? (3)

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  • Suspension-feeding structures in many invertebrate chordates
  • Gas exchange in vertebrates (except vertebrates with limbs, the tetrapods)
  • Develop into parts of the ear, head, and neck in tetrapods
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What is the muscular, post-anal tail?

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A tail posterior to the anus in chordates.

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What are lancelets?

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Invertebrates that are marine suspension feeders that retain characteristics of the chordate body plan as adults

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What phylum are lancelets in?

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Cephalochordata; named for their bladelike shape

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What are tunicates?

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Invertebrates that most resemble chordates during their larval stage (only last a few minutes)

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What phylum are tunicates apart of?

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Urochordata

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Are tunicates more closely related to other chordates compared to lancelets?

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Yes

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What is special about turnicates?

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Highly derived, and has fewer Hox genes than other vertebrates

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What is significant about the Hox gene in early chordate evolution?

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  • Same Hox genes that organize the vertebrate brain are expressed in the lancelet’s simple nerve cord tip
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What does the sequencing of tunicate genome indicates?

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  • Genes associated with the heart and thyroid are common to all chordates
  • Genes associated with transmission of nerve impulses are unique to vertebrates
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How are vertebrates and chordates related?

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  • Vertebrates are chordates that are related
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What does the skeletal system and complex nervous system allow for vertebrates to do?

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  • Capture food
  • Evade predators
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How many Hox genes does vertebrates have compared to lancelets and tunicates?

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Vertebrates: Have 2 or more sets of Hox genes

Lancelets & Tunicates: Have one cluster of Hox genes

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What are the following derived characteristics of Vertebrates? (3)

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  • Vertebrae enclosing a spinal cord
  • An elaborate skull
  • Fin rays, in the aquatic forms
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What are the only two lineages of jawless vertebrates that are here today?

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  • Hagfishes
  • Lampreys

Members of these groups also lacked a backbone

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What does fossil evidence of the earliest vertebrates show?

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  • Lacked a jaw
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What is the clade of living jawless vertebrates (hagfishes and lampreys)?

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Cyclostomes

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What is the clade of vertebrates with jaws?

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Gnathostomes

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What are hagfishes? (3)

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Jawless vertebrates that have a cartilaginous skull, reduced vertebrae, and a flexible rod of cartilage derived from the notochord

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What are some characteristics of hagfishes? (6)

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  • small brain
  • small eyes
  • small ears
  • tooth like formations
  • Are marine
  • Bottom dwelling scavengers
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What are lampreys (Petromyzontida)?

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Parasites that feed by clamping their mouth onto a live fish

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What are some characteristics of lampreys? (2)

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  • Inhabit various maine and freshwater habitats
  • Have cartilaginous segments that surrounds the notochord and arching partly over the nerve cord
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What are the most primitive fossil from Cambrian explosion that shows transition to craniates?

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Haikouella fossil that has well-formed brain, eyes, and muscular segments, but no skull or ear organs

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What are conodonts?

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  • Earliest vertebrates in the fossil record, dating from 500 to 200 million years ago
39
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What did conodonts have?

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  • Had mineralized skeletal elements in their mouth and pharynx
40
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Where did mineralization of bone and teeth appear?

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Appear with the vertebrate mouthparts

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What did gnathostomes consists of? (6)

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  • sharks and relatives
  • ray finned fishes
  • lobe finned fishes
  • amphibians
  • reptiles (including birds)
  • mammals
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What are gnathostomes named for?

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Named for their jaws, hinged structures that, especially with help of teeth, are used to grip food items firmly and slice them

43
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What are placoderms?

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  • Earliest gnathostomes in the fossil record that are an extinct lineage of armored vertebrates

appeared 440 MYA

44
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What are acanthodians?

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Group of jawed vertebrates that radiated during the Silurian and Devonian periods

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What 3 lineages of jawed vertebrates can we find today?

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  • chondrichthyans
  • ray finned fishes
  • lobe fins
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What is the chondrichthyans (chondrichthyes) skeleton composed of?

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Skeleton is composed of primarily cartilage

47
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What is the largest and most diverse group of chondrichthyans? (3)

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  • Sharks
  • Rays
  • Skates
48
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What are the 3 different ways shark eggs can develop?

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  • Oviparous
  • Ovoviviparous
  • Viviparous
49
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What is oviparous?

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Eggs hatch outside the mother’s body

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What is ovoviviparous?

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  • Embryo develops within the uterus and is nourished by the egg yolk
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What is viviparous?

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Embryo develops within the uterus and is nourished thru a yolk sac placenta from mother’s blood

52
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What is cloaca?

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Location of where reproductive tract, excretory system, and digestive tract empties into

53
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What percentage of sharks are threatened by overfishing?

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What are some characteristics of sharks? (5)

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  • Have a streamlined body/swift swimmers
  • Has short digestive tracts with a ridge called spiral valve
  • Have acute senses
  • Has the ability to detect electrical fields from nearby animals
  • Most are carnivores but can be filter feeders
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What do osteichthyans include?

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Includes bony fishes and tetrapods

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What are fishes?

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Aquatic osteichthyans that are vertebrates

57
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What do nearly all living osteichthyans have?

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All have a bony endoskeleton

58
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What is the operculum?

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A layer that protects gills when water goes over them

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What are actinopterygii?

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Ray-finned fishes that include nearly all familiar aquatic osteichthyans

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What are the characteristics of lobe fins (Sarcopterygii)?

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  • Have a muscular pelvic and pectoral fins that they use to swim and “walk” underwater across the substrate
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What are the 3 lineages of lobe-finned fishes that survived?

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  • Coelacanths
  • Lungfishes
  • Tetrapods
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What are tetrapods?

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  • A group that adapted to life on land
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What is one of the most significant events in vertebrate history?

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  • When fins of some lobe fins evolved into limbs and feet of tetrapods
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How are tetrapods and gnathostomes related?

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Tetrapods are gnathostomes that have limbs

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What are the 5 adaptations of tetrapods?

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  • Four limbs, and feet with digits
  • A neck, which allows separate movement of the head
  • Fusion of the pelvic girdle to the backbone
  • The absence of gills (except some aquatic species)
  • Ears for detecting airborne sounds
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What did the Tikktaalik have? (4)

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  • Fins, gills, lungs, and scales
  • Ribs to breathe air and support its body
  • A neck and shoulders
  • Fins with the bone pattern of a tetrapod limb
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What is a Tiktaalik?

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An animal named a fishapod because it had both fish and tetrapod characteristics

68
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What are the three clades in Amphibians (class Amphibia)?

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  • Urodela (salamanders)
  • Anura (frogs)
  • Apoda (caecilians)
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How many species make up Amphibians?

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6,150 species

70
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What are salamanders (urodeles)?

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Amphibians with tails

*some are aquatic but most live on land

71
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What is paedomorphosis?

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Retention of juvenile features in sexually mature organisms, is common in aquatic species

72
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What are frogs?

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Amphibians that lack tails and have powerful hind legs for locomotion on land

73
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What are toads?

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Frogs with leathery skin

74
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What are caecilians?

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Amphibians that are legless, nearly blind, and resemble earthworms

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What is the secondary adaptation of caecilians?

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  • absence of legs

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