General

Question 1

Beta-sclerotisation is important for…

Answer 1

Producing clear cuticle that covers the compound eyes

Question 2

What is chitin derived from?

Answer 2

Sugars

Question 3

Bones from the vertebrate ear are modified what?

Answer 3

Jaw bones…which were modified from gill arches

Question 4

What does the theory of ecology attempt to explain?

Answer 4

Scaling of basal metabolic rate

Question 5

What does vermiform mean?

Answer 5

Worm-like

Question 6

What is a lancelet?

Answer 6

A marine invertebrate that lacks jaws. They have many gill openings

Question 7

What are thysanura?

Answer 7

Silver fish

Question 8

Flight has evolved in vertebrates how many times?

Answer 8

Three
Once in bats
Once in birds
Once in pterosaurs

Question 9

Are reptiles anapsids or diapsids

Answer 9

Diapsids

Question 10

How many gill slits do lamprey have?

Answer 10

7

Question 11

How many gill slots do dogfish have?

Answer 11

5

Question 12

The malleus evolved from which bone?

Answer 12

The articular bone

Question 13

What is a teleost?

Answer 13

An infraclass of the actinopteregii. They are ray-finned fish