Protoza Flashcards
Habitat of Aves
Terrestrial
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Mammalia:
Class Aves
Birds
Impact on Humans of Aves?
Food, pets, etc
Completxity? Symmetry? Skeleton? Sex? Size?
Aves
Very Complex Bilateral Symmetry Endoskeleton Unisexual Small-Very Large
Precocial Birds?
Active and independent after hatching
Ducks, geese, chickens
Altricial Birds?
Naked and helpless after hatching
Hawks, Songbirds
What do feet tell us? What do beaks tell us?
Where they spend their time and what they eat
Ability to Fly
Hollow bones
Wings
Feathers
One was respiration system
What do feathers do?
Provide insulation an enable flight
Phylum Chordata:
Subphylum Reptilia
Reptiles
Lizards, snakes, crocodilians, turtles
Habitat? Complexity? Size? Sex? Skeleton?
Reptilia
Aquatic and Terrestrial Complex Small-Very Large Unisexual Endoskeleton- Crocodilians Exoskeleton: Snakes, Lizards, Turtles
What is special about their skin?
Made of scales that hold in water
Protection
What is basking?
Basking is used by cold blooded animals to increase their body temperature by soaking up the sun.
Hemolytic Venom affects?
Blood stream
Neurotoxic Venom affects?
Nervous System
What is brooding?
Mother snake stays with her eggs
Chambers in the heart of Reptilia
Three
Chambers in the heart of Aves
4 chambers, like a mammal
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Insects grasshoppers, beetles, butterflies etc.
Complexity? Size? Sex? Habitat? Symmetry?
Insecta
Complex Small Unisexual, Bisexual, Hermaphrodotic Terrestrial, some aquatic Bilateral and radial
Importance to Humans of Inscets
Food, pollination, silk, decomposers
How many legs do ALL insects have?
6
What are the insects variety of feeding habits?
Lapping
Chewing
Siphoning
Sponging
Complete Metamorphasis
Egg-Larve-Pupa-Adult
Larve and adult look nothing a like, pupa is a resting period, adults have wings