Long Quiz Module 6 Flashcards
Fishes:
_____ and ___ lack hinged jaws. Also the most primitive chordates with heads
Has the ___ a flexible rod that runs most of the length of the body
tying of the knot is ____
___ oldest living lineage of vertebrates
Hagfishes and lampreys
notochord
antipredator behavior
lampreys
Fishes:
____ appeared in fossil record in the mid ordovician period
success is probaly due to their ____
jawed vertebrates
paired fins and tail
Fishes:
____ includes sharks and rays, also means cartilage fish
chondrichthyes
Fishes:
____ skeleton is made of bone - cartilage reinforced by a hard matrix of calcium phosphate, emerged from the devonian period
They also have ___ to keep them buoyant
Ray-finned fishes
swim bladder
Fishes:
____ flat body invisible on the seabed
____ spiky beach ball
____ long tail used for support
flounder
balloon fish
seahorse
Fishes:
___ with rod shaped bones in their muscular pectoral and pelvic fins
example is ___ and ___
lobe-finned fishes
coelacanth
lungfish
Amphibians:
amphibians include salamanders, frogs, and ___
____ term used to refer to frogs that have rough skin and live in terrestrial havitats
____ age of amphibians
caecilians
toad
carboniferous
Reptiles:
reptiles are ____ because of their egg with extraembryonic membranes
The ___ and the membrane of the _____ enable the embryo to obtain oxygen from air
amniotes
chorion
allantois
Reptiles:
___ largest living reptiles
scales are waterproofed with protein ____
They are ____
crocodilians
keratin
ectothermic
Birds:
____ largest bird in the world ___ in australia
They are ____ as they can generate heat
most primitive bird ____
ostrich
emu
endothermic
archaeopteryx
Mammals:
Mammals are ___ that have hair and have _____
Three lineages of mammals
____ lay eggs, oldest lineage
____ with pouch
____ placental
amniotes
mammary glands
monotremes
marsupials
eutherians
Mammals:
The silvery membrane clinging to the newborn ____
what order are humans from?
amniotic sac
primates
Mammals:
term for lives in trees_____
____ squirrel sized with limber shoulder and joints
tarsiers are nocturnal twee dellers that are closer to the ____ which include monkeys and apes that have opposable thumb
arboreal
loris
anthropoids
mammals:
_____ lack a prehensile tail and nostrils are downward, include mandrills, baboons,rhesus monkeys
old world monkeys
mammals:
____ group includes apes, gibbons, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans, lack a tail and have short legs
___ smallest and most acrobatic ape
___ shy and solitary, largest arboreal mammal
____ largest ape and are also knuckle walkers
anthropoids
gibbons
orangutan
gorilla