Fish

Question 1

Vertebral Column

Answer 1

Another term for spinal column

Question 2

Neural crest

Answer 2

temporary group of cells unique to vertebrates that arise from the embryonic ectoderm cell layer, and in turn give rise to a diverse cell lineage – including melanocytes, craniofacial cartilage and bone, smooth muscle, peripheral and enteric neurons and glia.

Question 3

Fin

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flattened appendage on various parts of the body of many aquatic vertebrates and some invertebrates, including fish and cetaceans, used for propelling, steering, and balancing.

Question 4

Scale

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each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another.

Question 5

Operculum

Answer 5

technical term for gill cover

Question 6

Atrium

Answer 6

two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles.

Question 7

Ventricle

Answer 7

a hollow part or cavity in an organ, in particular.

each of the two main chambers of the heart, left and right.

Question 8

Nephron

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each of the functional units in the kidney, consisting of a glomerulus and its associated tubule, through which the glomerular filtrate passes before emerging as urine.

Question 9

Lateral line

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a visible line along the side of a fish consisting of a series of sense organs that detect pressure and vibration.

Question 10

Spawning

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release or deposit eggs.

Question 11

Swim bladder

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an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of a fish to control its buoyancy, and thus to stay at the current water depth without having to waste energy in swimming.

Question 12

Jawless fish

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marine and freshwater fishes lacking a jaw and paired appendages,

Question 13

Cartilaginious fish

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jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone.

Question 14

Bony fish

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fish of a large class distinguished by a skeleton of bone, and comprising the majority of modern fishes.

Question 15

Devonian period

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geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period

Question 16

Bowfin/Dogfish

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basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, griddle, grinnel, cypress trout and choupique

Question 17

Brown Bulhead

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fish of the Ictaluridae family that is widely distributed in North America. It is a species of bullhead catfish and is similar to the black bullhead and yellow bullhead

Question 18

Brown Trout

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the common trout of Europe, especially one of a nonmigratory race with dark spotted skin, that occurs in small rivers and pools. It has been introduced into North America as a game fish.

Question 19

Burbot/Elpout

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only gadiform freshwater fish. Also known as mariah, freshwater ling, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod and eelpout, the burbot is closely related to the marine common ling and the cusk.

Question 20

Channel catfish

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An edible freshwater catfish of North America, having spots on the side and long barbels. Also called channel cat.

Question 21

Common carp

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

Question 22

Crappie

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genus, Pomoxis, of North American freshwater fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae. Both species in this genus are popular game fish

Question 23

Flathead catfish

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one of a number of small to medium fish species with notably flat heads, distributed in membership across various genera of the family Platycephalidae

Question 24

Lake sturgen

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is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 25 species of this type of fish.

Question 25

Lake trout

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freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, lake char, touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean

Question 26

Largemouth bass

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freshwater gamefish in the sunfish family, a species of black bass native to North America.

Question 27

Long-nose Gar

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is a primitive ray-finned fish of the gar family. It is also known as the needlenose gar. Wikipedia

Question 28

Muskellunge

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species of large, relatively uncommon freshwater fish native to North America. The muskellunge is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae

Question 29

Northern pike

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known simply as a pike in Britain, Ireland, most of Canada, and most parts of the United States, is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox. They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere.

Question 30

Rainbow trout

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species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.

Question 31

Sauger

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freshwater perciform fish of the family Percidae which resembles its close relative the walleye. They are members of the largest vertebrate order, Perciformes. They are the most migratory percid species in North America.

Question 32

Sheepshead

Answer 32

trick-taking card game related to the Skat family of games. It is the Americanized version of a card game that originated in Central Europe in the late 18th century under the German name Schafkopf.

Question 33

Smallmouth bass

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is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of the order Perciformes. It is the type species of its genus

Question 34

Smelt

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family of small fish, Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They are also known as freshwater smelts or typical smelts to distinguish them from the related Argentinidae, Bathylagidae, and Retropinnidae.

Question 35

Sunfish

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family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes. The type genus is Centrarchus

Question 36

Walleye

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freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European pikeperch

Question 37

White sucker

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freshwater Cypriniform fish inhabiting the upper Midwest and Northeast in North America, but is also found as far south as Georgia and New Mexico in the south and west

Question 38

Yellow bullhead

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species of bullhead catfish that is a ray-finned fish that lacks scales.

Question 39

Yellow perch

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commonly referred to as perch, is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America. The yellow perch was described in 1814 by Samuel Latham Mitchill from New York.