Lecture 7 (test 2 content) Flashcards

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What are chordate features?

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  1. Nerve cord
  2. Notochord
  3. Pharyngeal slits
  4. Postanal tail
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What are chordates?

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Animals belongs to the phylum Chordata

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How Vertebrates connected to chordates?

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Vertebrates are chordates with a spinal column

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What is the vertebral column?

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it encloses and protects the dorsal nerve cord

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How is the head in vertebrates distinguished from nonvertebrates?

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The head is distinct and well-differentiated processing sensory organs

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When did the first vertebrates appear?

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In the ocean about 530 MYA

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What soon became dominant in the oceans about 530 MYA?

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Jawed fishes

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When did Birds and mammals become dominant?

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after the Cretaceous mass extinction

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What are the three major groups of Bony Fish?

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  1. Ray0 finned fishes ( no muscles within the fins)
  2. Lungfish ( long fleshy muscular lobe)
  3. Coelacanths
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What are the 5 distinguishing amphibian features?

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  1. Legs
  2. Lungs
  3. Cutaneous respiration
  4. Pulmonary veins
  5. Partially divided heart
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What did amphibians develop to adapt to life on land?

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legs

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What is essentially cutaneous respiration for amphibians?

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supplement lungs

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What are pulmonary veins used for with amphibians?

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separate pulmonary circuit allows higher pressure blood to tissues

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How is having a partially divided heart useful for amphibians?

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it improves separation of pulmonary and systemic circuits

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15
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How many different species of reptiles are there?

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over 10,000

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What three features do all living reptiles exhibit?

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  1. Amniotic eggs
  2. Dry skin
  3. Thoracic breathing
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How are reptiles distinguished?

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by the number of holes on side of the skull behind eye orbit

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If a reptile has 0 holes on side of the skull behind orbit, what type of reptile is it?

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anapsid

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If a reptile has 1 holes on side of the skull behind orbit, what type of reptile is it?

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synapsid

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If a reptile has 2 holes on side of the skull behind orbit, what type of reptile is it?

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diapsids

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21
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What type of reptile rose to dominance first?

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synapsids

22
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What type of reptile was the first land vertebrates to kill beasts their own size?

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pelycosaurs

23
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What are considered to be the be the “mammal-like” reptile?

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Therapsids

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When did Therapsids replace Pelycosaurs?

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about 250 MYA

25
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What is the most famous Diapdid?

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Archosaurs

26
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What are Archosaurs famous for?

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They were the first land vertebrates to be bipedal

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When were therapsids replaced by diapsids?

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About 230 MYA

28
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How long did Dinosaurs dominant?

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For over 150 million years

29
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When did Dinosaurs become extinct and why?

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K-T extinction about 66 MYA by an Asteroid’s impact

30
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What reptilian traits do birds still retain?

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  1. Amniotic eggs
  2. have scales on legs
31
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What are two major distinguishing traits for birds in relation to reptiles?

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  1. Feathers
  2. Flight skeleton (bones are thin and hollow)
32
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What are the three evolutionary novelties Birds Exhibit?

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  1. Feathers
  2. Hollow Bones
  3. Physiological mechanisms for Flight
33
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What is the first known bird?

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Archaeopteryx

34
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What do most paleontologist agree about birds being the direct descendants of?

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Theropod dinosaurs

35
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What are Land plants called?

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Embryophyta

36
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What are some characteristics of Land plants?

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  1. multicellular eukaryotes with cellulose cell walls and a large central vacuole
  2. Photosynthetic
  3. Sexually reproducing with alternation of generations (haploid gametophytes and diploid sporophytes)
  4. Diploid embryo is protected and nurtured within the gametophyte
37
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How did pants adapt to terrestrial life?

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  1. waxy cuticle and stomata (protection from drying out)
  2. They can move water within plants
  3. They shift from diploid to haploid( protection against UV radiation)
38
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What are the closest living descendants of first land plants called?

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Bryophytes

39
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What plant lacked tracheids, and had other conducting cells in gametophytes?

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Nontracheophytes

40
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What were important for enhancing water uptake?

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mycorrhizal associations

41
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What species is known to be the first vascular land plant?

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Cooksonia

42
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How did leaves make photosynthesis more efficient?

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They increased surface area

43
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How many times did leaves evolve?

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Twice
1. Euphylls
2. Lycophylls

44
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What are Lycophytes?

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  1. They are sister group to all other vascular plants
  2. Leaves developed independently
  3. Sprophyte dominant
  4. Lack seeds
    ( most abundant in the tropics)
45
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What are characteristics about Ferns?

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They are the most abundant group of seedless vascular plants

46
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How long have seed plants become dominate in the terrestrial landscape?

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over the last several hundred million years

47
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Where did seed plants evolve from?

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spore-bearing plants known as (progymnosperms)

48
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What are some benefits of the evolution of the seed?

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  1. it protects food for embryo
  2. allow embryos to pause development and growth and germinate after harsh conditions have passed
49
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How do seeds protect the embryo?

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  1. there is an extra layer or two of sporophyte tissue
  2. hardens into seed coat
50
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How are angiosperms united by a suite of synapomorphies?

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  1. ovules are enclosed within a carpet
  2. double fertilization
  3. stamens with two pairs of pollen sacs
  4. features of gametophyte structure and development
51
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What are some primitive (or plesiomorphic) floral features?

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  1. flowers small
  2. pollination by small insects
  3. bisexual but easily becoming unisexual
    4.carpels free, without styles