Exercise 14: Vertebrate Skeletal Diversity

Question 1

Other term of vertebral column

Answer 1

Spinal column
Spine
Backbone
Vertebrate

Question 2

Each vertebra, in higher vertebrates, consist of ________, or _______, surmounted by a Y-shaped neural arch.

Answer 2

ventral body, centrum

Question 3

The centrums are separated by ______________, which help cushion shock in locomotion.

Answer 3

cartilaginous intervertebral disks.

Question 4

In primitive chordates, a rodlike structure, the __________, stiffens the body and helps protect the overlying spinal cord.

Answer 4

notocord
(nasa quiz to na spelling)

notochord if sa book.

Question 5

5 regions of vertebral column in crocodilians, lizards, birds, mamamal etc.

Answer 5

1. Cervical
2. Thoracic
3. Lumbar
4. Sacral
5. Caudal

Question 6

sa book na kayo tingin sa skeleton of a frog