Exam 3 Flashcards

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What is the life cycle of asexual reproduction for fungi?

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Spores
Germination
Mycellium
Spore-producing structures

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What is the life cycle of sexual reproduction for fungi?

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Spoers
Germination
Mycellium
Plasmogamy
Heterokaryotic stage
Karyogamy
Zygote
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Why are fungus considered heterotrophs and how do they accomplish this?

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Fungus are heterotrophs because they receive their carbon source from other organisms
They accomplish this by decomposition

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What part of the body in fungi divide the hyphae into different cells?

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Septa

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What are hyphae?

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Individual branches used by fungi to obtain nutrients

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What are mycelia?

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Network of hyphae that have adapted for absorption

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What are specialized hyphae that can penetrate the tissue of host called?

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Haustoria

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What are septa?

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Divides the hyphae into different cells, compartments

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What are haustoria?

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Specialized hyphae that can penetrate their host’s tissue

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What are the five fungus groups?

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Chytrids - flagellated spores (zoospores)
Zygomycetes - produce zygosporangia
Glameromycetes-form arbuscular mycorrhizae
Ascomycetes - Sac fungi
Basidiomycetes - Have basidium

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What are basidium?

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Clublike structures where karyogamy occurs

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What is arbuscular mychorrhizae?

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Penetrates host cell and forms hyphae inside

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What are zygosporangia?

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Metabolically inactive sporangia

Resistant to freezing and drying

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What is the ecological importance of fungi?

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Essential for breaking down organic material and recycling nutrients into the enviornment

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What is a lichen and what are the three different types?

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A lichen is a symbiotic relationship between fungus and photosynthetic microorganisms. Crustose (crusty), Foliose (leafy), Fructicose (shrubby).

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What is a single celled fungi?

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Yeasts

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What are yeasts?

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Single celled fungi

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What is a network of highly branched hyphae called?

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Mycelia

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What is the difference between septate and coenocytic hyphae?

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Septate hyphae contain septa while coenocytic hyphae do not contain septa

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What is plasmogamy?

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Union of two parent mycellium

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What is a heterokaryon?

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Two haploid nuclei exist in one mycellium but haven’t fused yet

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What is karyogamy?

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Fusion of two haploid cells to create a zygote

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What are flagellated spores called?

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Zoospores

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What are zoospores?

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Flagellated spores

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What is the general term for a fungal infection in animals?
Mycosis
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What is mycosis?
The general term for a fungal infection in animals
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What are molds?
Fungi that produce haploid spores by mitosis and have visible mycelia
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What is an ascocarp?
The fruiting body of the ascomycete
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What is the fruiting body of the ascomycete called?
Ascocarp
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What is arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi?
Fungi that extend their hyphae through the tissue of their symbiotic partner
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What is ectomycorrhizae fungi?
Fungi that extend their hyphae over the root surface of their symbiotic partner
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What are the five characteristics that define animals?
``` Nutritional mode is heterotrophic Multicellular No cell wall Bodies held together by collagen Nervous tissue and muscular tissue unique to animals ```
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What is the difference between diploblastic and triploblastic?
Diploblastic animals have two germ layers | Triploblastic animals have three germ layers
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What is determinate cleavage?
Each cell has a determined fate that can not be changed
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What is indeterminate cleavage?
Each cell can change what kind of cell they will become at early stage
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What are the development features that protostomes posess?
Spiral and determinate cleavage Coelom formed from mesoderm splitting Blastopore becomes mouth
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What are the development features that deuterosomes posess?
Radial and indeterminate cleavage Coelom formed from mesoderm budding from archenteron wall Blastopore becomes anus
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What characteristics do all ecdysozoans share?
They secrete an external skeleton (exoskeleton)
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What is metamorphosis?
A developmental transformation that changes an organism from larva stage to adult stage
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What is a zygote?
The diploid cell produced by the union of haploid gametes during fertilization A fertilized egg
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What is cleavage?
A type of mitotic cell division
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What is a blastula?
A hollow ball of cells that marks the end of cleavage division
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What is a blastocoel?
The hollow center of the blastula
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What is a blastopore?
The opening in the blastula that forms during gasturlation and connects the archenteron to the exterior of the gastrula
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What is a gastrula?
A stage in animal development in which the three germ layers are formed
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What is cephalization?
Development of a head
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What is a trochophore?
Free swimming larva
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What is a lophophore?
A crown of ciliated tentacles that surround the mouth and function in feeding
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What is ecdysis?
The process through which ecdysozoans shed their exoskeletons
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What are eumatazoans?
Animals with true tissues
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What is a coelom?
A body cavity lines by tissue derived from the mesoderm
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What is radial cleavage?
Cleavage that lines the cells up in tiers having one above the other
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What is spiral cleavage?
Cleavage that lines the cells up in tiers having the cells sit in the grooves of adjacent cells
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What is the hox gene?
Regulates body from development | Allows for quick modification and complexity
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What is the cambrion explosion?
Earliest fossil appearance of many major groups of living animals
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What are the hypotheses for the cambrion explosion?
New predator-prey relationships A rise in atmospheric oxygen Evolution of the hox gene complex
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Describe how a sponge feeds
Choanocytes create a current that pulls the water into the pores and out of the osculum. Nutrients from the water are trapped when they go through the pores
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What are the characteristics of the phylum cnidaria?
One opening for anus and mouth Two body forms: medusa and polyp Have cnidocytes and nemetocytes
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What are the four classes of cnidaria?
Hydrozoans - both polyp and medusa Scyphozoans - Only medusa form Cubazoans - Medusa is box shaped with complex eyes Anthozoans - Occur only as polyps
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What are the four groups of lophotrochozoans?
Annelida - Worms Mollusca - Platyhelminthes - Flatworms Rotifera - Rotifers
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What are the four classes of mollusca?
Polyplacophora - Chitans Gastropods - Snails and slugs Bivalves - Clasms, oysters, mussels and scallops Cephalopods - Squids, octopus, nautalus and cuttlefish
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What are the three main body parts of mollusca?
Muscular foot Visceral Mass - internal organs Mantle - thin layer that secretes the shell
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What are the two classes of annelids?
Oligochaetes - Earthworms and leeches - have chaetes | Polychaetes - Have parapodia
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What are parapodia?
Paddle like extensions that work as gills and in locomotion
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What are chaetes?
Bristles made of chitin for movement
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What are the characteristics that distinguish nematoda from other wormlike animals?
Nematoda lack segmented bodies | Body covered by an exoskeleton
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What are the four major lineage of arthropod?
``` Chelicerata - have chelicerae Arachnids - book lungs and split into cephalothorax and abdomen Myriapods - Have mandibles Hexapoda - Crustacea ```
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What are chelicerae?
Clawlike feeding appendages
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What are Eurypterpids?
Extinct water scorpions that belonged to Chelicerata
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What are book lungs?
Openings that allow for gas exchange
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What are the two classes of Myriapods?
Diplopoda - millipedes | Chilopoda - Centipedes
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What are the six classes of echinoderms?
Asteroidea - Sea stars Ophiuroidea - Brittle Stars Echinoidea - Sea urchins and sand dollars Crinoidea - Sea lillies and feather stars Holothuroidea - Sea cucumbers
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What is torsion?
The animals anus and mantle are above the head
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What is hirudin?
Chemical in leeches that prevents blood from clotting
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What are nematocysts?
Organelles within cnidocytes that eject a stinging thread
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What are cnidocytes?
Cells on tentacles that function in defense and prey capture
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What are choanocytes?
Flagellated collar cells that cause current for feeding in sponges
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What are protonephridia?
Regulate osmotic balance
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What is parthenogenesis?
A type of asexual reproduction where females produce more females from unfertilized eggs
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What is a radula?
An organ that molluscs use to scrape up food and feed
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What is a cuticle?
The exoskeleton of arthropods and nematoads
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What are tube feet?
An extension of echinoderms that allow for locomotion and feeding
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What is a water vascular system?
A network of hydraulic canals in echinoderms that uses tube feet to move and feed
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What are the derived traits for chordates?
Notocord Dorsal hollow nerve cord Pharyngeal slits of clefts Post anal tail
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What are the derived traits for craniates?
Chordates with head (A skull, Brain, Eyes and other sensory organs) Neural crest Pharyngeal clefts evolve into gill slits
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What is a neural crest?
Collection of cells that appear near the dorsal margins of the closing neural tube in an embryo
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What are the derived traits of vertebrates?
Craniates with a backbone | Fins stiffened by ray fins
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What are the derived traits of gnathostomes?
Vertebrates with jaws | Lateral line system - organs that are sensitive to vibrations in the water
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What are the derived traits of tertrapods?
Gnathostomes with limbs Four limbs and feet with digits Ears for detecting airborne sound
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What are the derived traits of Amniotes?
Tetrapods that have a terrestrially adapted egg | Amniotic egg
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What are the derived traits of mammals?
Hair Produce milk Large Brain Differentiated teeth
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Most fungi have cell walls composed of what?
Chitin
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What group of fungi has zoospores?
Chytrids
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The photosynthetic symbiont of a lichen is often what?
A green alga
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At what developmental stage can you first distinguish between a protostome and a deuterostome?
Cleavage
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What are acoelomates characterized by?
A solid body without a cavity surrounding the internal organs
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What group of cnidarians alternate between polyp and medusa form?
Hydrozoa
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Which group of fungi produce flagellated spores?
Chytrids
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What phylum do sac fungi belong to?
Ascomycota
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What are the three lichen types and How do you describe them?
Fruticose - shrublike Foliose - leaflike Crustose - Encrusting
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The typical white bottom mushroom is in which phylum?
Basidiomycota
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What are single celled fungi also called?
Yeasts
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What are networks of branched hyphae called?
Mycelia
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What organisms are the most related to animals?
Choanoflagellates
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An adult animal that possesses bilateral symmetry is also what?
Triploblastic
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When does the blastopore first become evident?
Gastrulation
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What class in the phylum cnidaria occur only as polyps?
Anthozoa
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What phylum are flatworms in?
Platyhelminthes
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Which group of animals are also called bryozoans?
Ectoprocts
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Which phylum is characterized by animals that have a segmented body?
Anthropoda
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Which group of animals use a water vascular system?
Echinodermata
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What group are cuttlefish in?
Mollusca
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Two thirds of known species of animals belong to what group?
Arthropoda
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What group are ticks under?
Aracnids
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What group are horseshoe crabs under?
Chelicerata
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What are the derived traits of birds?
Small Gonads One Ovary Lack of Urinary blatter Hollow bones
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What is the significance of the Archeopteryx?
Oldest known bird with flight feathers
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What are pharyngeal slits/clefts?
Slits in pharynx that develop into slits
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What are the functions of pharyngeal slits/clefts?
Suspension feeding Gas exchange in vertebrates Develop into parts of ear, head and neck in tetrapods
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What is a notocord?
Flexible rod located between the digestive tube and nerve cord that provides skeletal support in chordates
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What are chondrichthyes?
Sharks and rays Skeleton composed of cartilage Evolved from boney fish
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What is oviparous?
Egg hatches outside of the mother's body
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What is ovoviparous?
Embryo develops within uterus and is nourished by egg yolk
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What is viviparous?
Gives birth live, nourished in mother's uterus
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What are placoderms?
Earliest gnathostomes | Plates on skin
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What are osteichthyes?
Includes bony fish and tetrapods Bony endoskeleton Have and operculum and swim bladder
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What is an operculum?
Covering that goes over the gills
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What is a swim bladder?
Organ in the class osteichythyes that helps control buoyancy
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What is a cloaca?
Chamber that reproductive tract, excretory tract and urinary tract empty into
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What is a tunicate?
A type of Urochordata
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What is a neural crest?
A collection of cells that appear in embryos that become a variety of structures such as skin, skull, teeth and neurons
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What is a conodont?
First vertebrate with mineralized elements in their mouth and pharynx
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What are the three lineages of Sacropterygii?
Coelacanths Lungfish Tetrapods
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What are lobe fin fish?
``` Animals in the class Sacropterygii Have muscular pelvic and pectoral fins ```
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What are ray fin fish?
``` Animals in the class Actinopterygii Fins are supported by long flexible rays ```
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What is ecothermic?
Absorbs external heat as main source of body heat
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What is endothermic?
Capable of keeping bodies warm through metabolism
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What are the three skull characteristics?
Anapsids - only eye orbit (turtles) Synapsids - Eye orbit and temporal fenestrae (mammals) Diapsids - Eye orbit and two temporal fenestrae
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What is a marsupial?
Embryo develops with a placenta in the mother's uterus | Has a pouch called a marsupium
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What is a eutherians?
Placental mammals | Complete embryonic development
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What are the extraembryonic membranes in a amniotic egg?
Amnion Charion Yolk sac Allantois
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What are the three orders in the class amphibia?
Uradela - salamders Anura - Frogs and toads Apoda - caecilians