Reptile And Amphibian Study Guide Flashcards
What does amphibian mean?
Double life
What is a spermatophore?
Sperm packet laid by male salamanders
What is paedomorphosis? Give example)
Adults retain their juvenile characteristics for life
Axolotl
How had paedomorphosis been important to the evolution of predominantly aquatic salamanders?
Retain external gills
Better aquatic respiration
Salamanders reproductive behaviors
Male lays spermatophore female takes packet into cloaca and lays fertilized egg
INTERNAL FERTILIZATION
Frog reproductive behavior
Amplexus
Male clasps female and squeezes
Male releases sperm as female lays eggs
EXTERNAL FERTILIZATION
List three adaptations amphibians have for living in water
Lay eggs in water
Larvae have gills
Respiration through skin
List three adaptations amphibians have for living on land
Replaced gills with lungs
Legs-tetrapods
Mucus glands- prevents evaporation
What is a tetrapod?
Four legs
What are chromatophores
Cells that contain color changing pigments
Are amphibians monoecious or dioecious
Dioecious
Order gymnophiona
Apods/ caecilians
Long/ slender body
No limbs
Tropical forest
Terminal anus
Blind
Burrow into the ground
Pancreas
Makes insulin DIGESTIVE GLAND
Cloaca
Sewer-EGGS,SPERM,URINE,Feces
Gall bladder
Stores bile
Spleen
stores blood and makes blood cells
Part of immune system
Fat bodies
Energy source
Kidney
Excrete excess water
Mesentery
Tissue
Holds together small intestine coils
Liver
Makes bile DETOXIFIER
How is the frog similar to other vertebrae’s?
Vertebrate
Ectotherm
Dioecious