fish

Question 1

vertebrate

Answer 1

animals with a backbone

Question 2

vertebral column

Answer 2

The backbone

Question 3

neural crest

Answer 3

a trasient, multipotent, migratory cell population, unique to vertabrates.

Question 4

closed circulatory system

Answer 4

blood closed at all times within vessels of different size and wall thickness.

Question 5

cycloid scales

Answer 5

smooth-edged, more or less in circular form and having concetric striations.

Question 6

placoid scales

Answer 6

platelike, as the scales ordermal investments of sharks.

Question 7

ganoid scales

Answer 7

having a smooth, shiny surface of a ganoin or a similar substance

Question 8

gills

Answer 8

respritory organ found in aquatic organisms.

Question 9

lateral line

Answer 9

a visible line along the side of fish

Question 10

spawning

Answer 10

release or deposit eggs

Question 11

jawless fish

Answer 11

various marine and freshwater fishes lacking a jaw and paired apendages.

Question 12

carilaginous fish

Answer 12

fish with a cartilage skeleton.

Question 13

bony fish

Answer 13

fish with a bony skeleton

Question 14

lobe-finned fish

Answer 14

fish having paired fleshy rounded fins.

Question 15

Bowfin/Dogfish

Answer 15

Bony fish related to Gars.

Question 16

Brown Bullhead

Answer 16

A fish of the Ictaluridae family and is similar to the black bullhead and the yellow bullhead.

Question 17

Brown Trout

Answer 17

Originally a European species of Salmonoid Fish.

Question 18

Burbot/Eelpout

Answer 18

The only gadiform freshwater fish.

Question 19

Channel Catfish

Answer 19

North America’s most numerous catfish species.

Question 20

Commom Carp

Answer 20

A widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in large rivers and lakes in Europe and Asia.

Question 21

Crappie

Answer 21

A North American fish of the sunfish family Centrarchidae

Question 22

Flathead Catfish

Answer 22

A large catfish of North America that is also called Motley, Yellow Cat, Opelousas, Bashaw, or Shovelhead Cat.

Question 23

Lake Sturgeon

Answer 23

one of 25 different species, it is also known as the rock sturgeon and is a North American temperate freshwater fish.

Question 24

Lake Trout

Answer 24

Lives in lakes of northern North America