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Chondrichthyes

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Cartilaginous fishes, jawed verts, paired fins, paired nares, scared. Cartridge bones

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Innate behavior

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Do not have to be learned or practiced

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Learned behavior

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Something that is taught

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Vestigial structures or traits

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Traits that lost their function

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Micro evolution

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Evolutionary change within a species or small group of organisms over a short period

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Macroevolution

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Major evolutionary change

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Polyploidy

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Containing more than two paired sets of chromosomes

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Speciation

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The formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution

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Proterozioc

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Between Archean and Cambrian period. 2500 mya to 541 mya.

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Hadean

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Began with the formation of earth. 4.6 to 4 billion years ago.

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Archean period

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4000 to 2500 mya or 4-2.5 billion years ago.

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Phanerozoic

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Relating to or denoting the eon covering the whole time since the beginnning of the Cambrian period. Comprising the Paleozoic Mesozoic and Cenozoic era. 541 mya to present.

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Homologous

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Having the same structural features and pattern of genes.

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Analogous

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Performing a similar function but having a different evolutionary origin. Such as the wings of insects and birds.

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Sexual selection

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Natural selection arising through preference by one section for certain characteristics in individuals of the other sex.

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Petromyzontida

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Lampreys jawless fish placed in the superclass of cyclostomsta

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Millipede

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Group of anthropoid having 2 jointed legs on most body segments. Class if diplopoda. Group myriapoda

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Centipede

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Anthropods belonging to the class chilopoda and subphylum myriapoda. One pair of legs per body segment. Highly venemous.

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Hermaphrodite

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Both female and male sex organs

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Bivalves

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Lamellivranchiata and pelecyoda a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts.

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Copepods

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A group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly ever freshwater habitat. Larval fished and filter feeders. Most abundant species in earth.

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Cephalization

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The concentration of sense organs, nervous control at the anterior end of the body forming a head and brain

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Book lungs

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Each a pair of respiratory organs composed of many fine leaves. In a spider or other arachnids.

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Myzini

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Hagfish. Eel shaped. Slime producing. Marine fish. Skull but no vertebral column.

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Decapod

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Order of crustaceans within the class malacostraca, including many familiar groups such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns, and shrimp. Most are scavengers

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Parthenogenesis

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Reproduction from an ovum without fertilization, especially as a normal process in some invertebrates and lower parts.

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Parapodium

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Paired lateral appendages extending from the body segments.

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Estivation

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Prolonged torpor or dormancy of an animal during a hot or dry period.

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Rhabditophora

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Class of flatworms and most free living species that were previously grouped in the now obselete class turbellaria.

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Oviparous

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Hatch outside mothers body

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Ovoviviparous

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Embryo develops within the uterus and is nourished by the egg yolk

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Viviparous

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Embryo develops within the uterus and is nourish through a yolk sack placenta from the mothers blood

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Coelacanths

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The common ancestors for tetrapods

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Sarcopterygii

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Loeb send the fishes have muscular pelvic and pectoral fins

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Tiktaalik

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375 mya. Strong pectoral fins could do push-ups

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Eusthenopteron

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385 mya. Lived in deltas swamps use the stronger arms to push its way through obstacles

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Pandericthys

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380 mya. No third fin swim like eel. Stronger body muscle attachments

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Reasons to enter land

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Drying pool, digging in tidal flat, escape predators, food resources, reproduction, more oxygen,

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Tetrapod

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For limbs

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Acanthostega

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365 mya. Not a strong Walker mostly aquatic eight digits fused robust pelvic girdle

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Icthyostega

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360 mya. Closer to land tetrapod’s, rib cage to protect organs from being crushed out of water, very strong pectoral girdle with strong muscle attachments, rear leg not attached for weight dangles like a paddle