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What does amphibian mean?

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Means “both ways of life,” referring to the metamorphosis of an aquatic larva into a terrestrial adult

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What are tadpoles?

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Herbivores that lack legs, but legs, lungs, external eardrums, and adaptations for carnivory may all arise during metamorphosis

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Fertilization for amphibians

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  • Fertilization is external and require a moist environment
  • In some species, male or females care for the eggs on their back, in their mouth, or in their stomach
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What are the causes of amphibian decline?

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  • disease causing chytrid fungus
  • habitat loss
    -climate change
  • pollution
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What are amniotes ?

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Group of tetrapods who living members are reptiles, including birds, and mammals that have a terrestrially adapted egg

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What is the amniotic egg?

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A derived characteristic of amniotes in which the egg contains membranes that protect the embryo

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What are the extraembryonic membranes in the amniotic egg? (4)

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  • Amnion
  • Chorion
  • Yolk Sac
  • Allantois
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What are other terrestrial adaptions of amniotes?

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  • Relatively impermeable skin
  • Ability to use the rib cage to ventilate the lungs
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What consists of the reptile clade? (7)

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  • Tuataras
  • Lizards
  • Snakes
  • Turtles
  • Crocodilians
  • Birds
  • Some extinct groups
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What are most reptiles?

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Ectothermic: Absorbing external heat as the main source of body heat

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What are birds?

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Endothermic: Capable of maintaining body temperature through metabolism

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How do ectotherms regulate their body temp?

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Thru behavioral adaptations

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What are the first major group of reptiles?

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Parareptiles: Large, stocky quadrupedal herbivores

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What were the next group after parareptiles? What are the 2 main lineages of this group?

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Next up were the diapsids.

2 lineages: Lepidosaurs and Archosaurs

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What do lepidosaurs include?

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  • Tautaras
  • Lizards
  • Snakes
  • Extinct Mososaurds
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What do archosaurs consist of?

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  • Crocodilians
  • Pterosaurs
  • Dinosaurs
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What were the first tetrapods to exhibit flight?

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Pterosaurs

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What does Pterosaurs include?

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Includes bipedal carnivores called Theropods: group from which birds descended

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What are characteristics of turtles?

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  • Boxlike shell made up of upper and lower shields
  • Shell is fused to vertebrae, clavicle, and ribs
  • Some adapted to land while others adapted to aquatic environments
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What are the surviving lineage of Lepidosaurs?

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Tuataras
Squamates
Lizards
Snakes

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What are characteristics of snakes? (6)

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  • Has chemical sensors
  • Heat detecting organs
  • Venom
  • Loosely articulated jawbones and elastic skin
  • Carnivorous
  • Legless lepidosaurs
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Where are living crocodilians restricted to?

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Restricted to warm regions

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What are derived characteristics of birds? 6

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  • Had adaptations that facilitate flight
  • Wings with keratin feathers
  • Lack of urinary bladder
  • Females with only one ovary
  • Small gonads
  • Loss of teeth
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What is the oldest bird known?

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Archaeopteryx

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What clade does living birds belong to?

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Neornithes

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What group of birds are flightless? (3)

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  • Ratites (order Struthioniformes)
  • Penguins (order Sphenisciformes)
  • Certain species of rails, ducks, and pigeons
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How can be bird species be distinguished? (6)

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  • Profile
  • Color
  • Flying style
  • Behavior
  • Beak shape
  • Foot structure
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What are mammals?

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Amniotes that have hair and produce milk

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What are the derived characteristics of mammals? (5)

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  • Mammary glands, which produce milk
  • Hair
  • A high metabolic rate, due to endothermy
  • A larger brain than other vertebrates of equivalent size

-Differentiated teeth

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What are synapsids?

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Two bones that formerly made up the jaw joint were incorporated into the mammalian middle ear

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In the early Cretaceous period, what 3 living lineages of mammals emerge?

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  • monotremes
  • marsupials
  • eutherians
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What are monotremes?

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  • small group of egg-laying mammals consisting of echidnas and the platypus
33
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What are marsupials? (3)

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  • opossums
    kangaroos
    koalas
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Where does the marsupial embryo develop?

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Develop within a placenta in the mother’s uterus.

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What is a marsupium?

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Maternal pouch of marsupials

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What are eutherians?

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Placental mammals that complete their embryonic development within a uterus that’s connected to the placenta

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What does the mammalian order Primates include? (4)

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  • Lemurs
  • Tarsiers
  • Monkeys
  • Apes –> Humans are apart of this
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What are derived characteristics of primates? (6)

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  • Hands and feet adapted for grasping
  • Flat nails
  • large brain and short jaws
  • Fully opposable thumb (monkeys and apes)
  • Complex social behavior/parental care
  • Forward looking eye close together for depth preception
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What are the 3 main groups of living primates?

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  • lemurs, lorises, and bush babies
  • Tarsiers
  • Anthropoids –> Monkeys and apes
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Are tarsiers more closely related to anthropoids or to lemurs?

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Closely related to anthropoids

41
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Which came first monkeys or apes?

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Monkeys

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What does the apes group consist of? (6)

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  • Gibbons
  • Orangutans
  • Gorillas
  • Chimpanzees
  • Bonobos
  • Humans
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What are humans?

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Mammals that have a large brain and bipedal locomotion

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What are derived characteristics of humans?

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  • Upright posture and bipedal locomotion
  • Larger brains capable of language, symbolic thought, artistic expression, the manufacture and use of complex tools
  • Reduced jawbones and jaw muscles
  • Shorter digestive tract
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How closely related are human and chimpanzee genomes?

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99% closely related

46
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What is paleonthropology?

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Study of human origins

47
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Are hominins (formerly known as hominids) more closely related to humans or chimpanzees?

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Humans

48
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What does early hominins show evidence of?

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  • small brains
  • increasing bipedalism
49
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What is one misconception of hominins? What is the correct fact?

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Misconception: Early hominins were chimpanzees

Correction: Hominins and chimpanzees share a common ancestor

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What is the second misconception of hominins? What is the correct fact?

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Misconception: Human evolution is like a ladder leading directly to Homo sapiens

Correction: Hominin evolution included many branches or coexisting species, though only humans survive today

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What are australopiths?

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Paraphyletic assemblage of hominins

  • some walked fully erect
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Difference b/w Robust and Gracile Australopiths

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Robust: Had sturdy skills and powerful jaws

Gracile: More slender and had lighter jaws

53
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What does fossil evidence indicate about too use?

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May have originated before the evolution of large brains

54
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What are the Homo groups?

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Homo habilis - Handy man

Homo ergaster -> First fully bipedal, large-brained hominid; decrease in sexual dimorphism (more difference b/w sexes)

Home erectus -> First hominin to leave Africa

Homo neanderthalensis

Homo sapiens

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What are Neanderthals?

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Ancestors of humans that were thick-boned with a large brain

  • Buried their dead
  • Made hunting tools
56
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What are homo sapiens?

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African ancestors of humans

all living humans are descended from here

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What is the new found small hominin?

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Homo floresiensis

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Homo sapiens were the first group to show what?

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Show evidence of symbolic and sophisticated thought

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