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lecture 23: Amniotes Flashcards

1
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What are the extant members of the Amniotes calde?

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Reptiles and mammals

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What is the defining feature of Amniotes?

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They have many terrestrial adaptations

They have a amniotic egg

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What is the amniotic egg in Amniotes?

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An egg with 4 extra-embryonic membranes

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What are the 4-extra-embryonic membranes?

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  1. amnion
  2. yolk sac
  3. allantois
  4. Chorion
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True or false:

Most Amniotes have a egg shell that is impervious to water loss

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True

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How do Amniotes transfer sperm?

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Through copulation & internal fertilization

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True or false:

Amniotes have waterproof skin

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True

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How do Amniotes assist in the moment of air?

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They have muscles in their rib cage that aid in ventilating the lungs.

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What is the earliest fossilized Amniote?

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The Hylonomus, found in Atlantic Canada

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What dose the root word =Hylo- mean?

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Woods

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What are the two major clades of the Amniotes?

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Reptilia

Synapsida

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What are Reptilia?

A

Reptiles and birds

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What are Synapsida?

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Mammals

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14
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How many skull holes do Diapsid creatures have?

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two holes per side of the skull

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How many skull holes do Synapsid creatures have?

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One hole per side of the skull

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How many skulls do Anapsid creatures have?

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zero

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What is the only extant reptilia with anapsid skulls?

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Turtles

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18
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What are the defining characteristics of non-avian reptilia?

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They are covered in Keratinous scales

They have leathery eggshells

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What are some of the behavioral characteristics of non-avian Reptilia?

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They mostly rely upon environmental heat to maintain appropriate temperatures

behavioral ectotherms

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20
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non-avian Retilia are ____-therms

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Ecto

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21
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what dose the root word -ecto- mean

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outside

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22
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non-avain Reptilia only require __% of the calories as that of mammals of similar size. why?

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10%

they don’t have to produce their own body heat.

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What kind of ‘opening’ do non-avian Reptilia have?

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cloacas

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24
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What is the most well known member of the group Testudines?

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Turtles and tortosies

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What is the defining feature of Testudines?

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They have bony dorsal and ventral shields

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26
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What dose the root word -test- mean?

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Shield

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27
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What is the skull construction of Testudines?

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Anapsid

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What is a cool feature about Testudines?

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They can withdraw their heads inside of their carapace for protection

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29
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Male Testudines have a ___________ organ, that is used to insert sperm into females

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intromittent organ

30
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What are the Lepidosauria

A 
ledpido= scale 
saur = lizard
31
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What are the two lineages of Lepidosauria?

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Tuataras

Squamata

32
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What is the defining feature of the Tuataras?

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They have teeth fused to jaw bones

They copulate but are missing intromittant organs

33
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What are the most well known Squamata?

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Snakes and lizards

34
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What dose the root word -squam- mean?

35
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What are the defining characteristics of Squamata?

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they have loosely jointed jaws and skulls 
paired hemipenes 
(lizards) have external ear openings (snakes do not)
36
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Do snakes have limbs?

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really, do you really need to ask that? no, no they don’t.

37
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How do snakes kill their prey?

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Through suffocation or venom

38
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What is one of the defining features of Crocodilia?

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they cannot chew

39
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True or false:

Extant species of Crocadilia can walk about on land

40
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How do Crocodilia pass on sperm?

A

Copulation through a single intromittant organ

41
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True or false:

Crocodilia show maternal care.

42
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What is the economic importance of Lepidosauria?

A

Turtles are harvested for their eggs and shells
Many Squamata are pets
Antivenins are made

43
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What is the extinct group of anapsid reptiles that may or may not have left any decedents?

A

The parareptiles

44
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What are the two aquatic Diapsids with unplaced lineages?

A

ischthyosaurs

Plesiosaurs

45
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What is one of the largest extinct groups of reptilia?

A

The Archosauria

46
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What dose the root word -arch- mean?

A

ancient or ruling

47
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What are the extinct members of the Archosauria?

A

Pterosaurs and non-avian dinosaurs

48
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What is the root word -deino-

49
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Were dinosaurs endothermic?

50
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What are the extant groups of Archosauria?

A

Aves and Crocodillia

51
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What are Aves?

52
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What is the most important synapomotphy in Aves?

53
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Extant Aves have _________beaks and lack_____

A

Keratinous

teeth

54
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how many digits do Aves have?

A

one main and 2 ting ones on wings with no claws

55
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What is the origin of Aves?

A

Fossiles have shown non-avian dinosaurs with feathers

the Archaeopteryx is the most famous extinct bird

56
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What are the characteristics of the Archaeopteryx?

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They had wings, teeth, and wing claws

57
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How do Aves grind up their food?

A

Within their gizzards

58
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What are the Aves adaptations for flight?>

A

Hollow bones

Reduced organs

59
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What kind of therm are birds?

A

Endotherms

60
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What dose the root word Endo mean?

61
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What is it called when an animal (aves) used metabolic energy to maintain a constant body temperature?

A

homeotherm

62
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How do birds care for their feathers>

A

Through preeing

63
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What is preeing?

A

The process of moving oils from glands at base of tail all over feathers.
it also ‘zips up’ flight and contour feathers

64
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True or false:

preeing removes some parasites?

65
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How do Aves transfer sperm

A

through copulation

They have a cloaca

66
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Do aves intromit?

67
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True or false:

Flighlessness has never evolved in Aves

A

False

it has many times

68
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Do aves show Parental care?

A

Yes, all Aves show some kind parental care

69
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What is it called when young can feed themselves?

70
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What is it called when young cannot feed themselves?

71
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What is the importance of Aves?

A 
We eat them (eggs and meat) 
and we use their feathers
We hunt them for sport 
keep them as pets 
and bird watch.

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