fish Flashcards

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vertebrate

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animal of large group with a back bone or spinal column

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vertebral column

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spine: back bone

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neural crest

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fourth germ layer of the vertebral column

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closed circulatory system

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blood is closed at all times inside of blood vessels, pumped by heart and doesnt normally fill body cavities

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cycloid scaled

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salmon and carp it is thin shows concentric lines of grownth

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placoid scales

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sharks and rays also called dermal denticals, structuarally homologous with vertebrete teeth

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ganoid scales

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sturgeons and gars contains an inner layer of bone

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gills

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paired resperatory organ of fish, oxygen is extracted from water that flows over them

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lateral line

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system of sense organs , detects movement and vibration

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spawining

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multiple eggs being fertalized, spawn, offspring

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jawless fish

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any taxonomic group (agnatha) containing vertabrates without jaws.

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cartilaginous fish

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having a skeleton made of cartalidge rather than bone ex: rays shark, chemeras.

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bony fish

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a skeleton of bone not cartalidge (most fish)

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lobe-finned fish

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largely extinct group having fleshy lobed fins probable ancestors of amphibians

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