exam 3 chapter 15 Flashcards
____ million living species have been discovered
1.3
animals are ______ that injest their food
heterotrophs
animals are _____ eukaryotes
multicellular
animal cells _____ cell walls
lack
animals bodies are held together by structural proteins called
collagen
____ tissue and _____ tissue are unique to animals
nervous, muscle
most animals reproduce _____ with diploid state usually dominating the life cycle
sexually
although the _____ family of genes has been highly conserved, its can produce a wide diversity of animal morphology
hox
time period between 542–251 million years ago
Cambrian period that last 53 million years known as the Cambrian explosion
marked a dramatic burst of evolutionary changes and its cause is hypothesized in the evolving of predator-prey relationship and rise in atmospheric oxygen
Paleozoic era
time period between 251-65.5 million years ago
dinosaurs were dominant terrestrial vertebrates
first mammals emerged
mesozoic era`
time period between 65.5-present
followed mass extinctions of both terrestrial and marine animals including large nonflying dinosaurs and marine reptiles
Cenozoic era
Cambrian explosion
marks the easiest fossil appearance pf many major groups of living animals
body plan
a way zoologist categorize animals, a set of morphological and developmental traits, integrated into an animal
- symmetry or lack of
- tissues
radial symmetry
can be split from the center
bilateral symmetry
two-sided symmetry, split in half