Skeleton

Question 1

What are the 3 main parts of the skeleton?

Answer 1

Skull, Vertebral Column, Thorax

Question 2

What is the skeleton a main source of?

Answer 2

Bone marrow, Calcium

Question 3

3 structures of skeleton are?

Answer 3

Axial, Appendicular, Visceral

Question 4

What does tetrapod mean?

Answer 4

Has 4 limbs

Question 5

What does bipedal mean?

Answer 5

Has 2 limbs

Question 6

The word ossification?

Answer 6

Bone remodelling by osteoblasts

Question 7

What are the characteristics of osteoblasts?

Answer 7

Bone building, regulates minerals

Question 8

The two jaw bones are…..

Answer 8

Mandible, Mandibulla

Question 9

The 4 main skull bones are…

Answer 9

Parietal, Occipital, Temporal, Frontal

Question 10

The brain differences in Fish?

Answer 10

Large olfactory centres

Question 11

The brain differences in Reptiles?

Answer 11

Large occipital & olfactory centres

Question 12

The brain differences in Birds?

Answer 12

Large cerebral hemispheres

Question 13

The brain differences in Mammals?

Answer 13

Large cerebellum & cerebral cortexes

Question 14

What makes the brain special?

Answer 14

Not size but neurones

Question 15

Definition of monodont?

Answer 15

One tooth

Question 16

Definition of homodont?

Answer 16

Same teeth

Question 17

Definition of heterodont?

Answer 17

Different teeth

Question 18

Definition of diphodont?

Answer 18

Permanent teeth

Question 19

Definition of polyphodont?

Answer 19

Replaced teeth

Question 20

Definition of hypsodont?

Answer 20

High crowned

Question 21

How many vertebrae does a fish have?

Answer 21

Well ossified, Notochord in each centrum,

Question 22

How many vertebrae does a frog have?

Answer 22

1

Question 23

How many vertebrae does a Reptile have?

Answer 23

7

Question 24

How many vertebrae does a birds have?

Answer 24

Varies

Question 25

What else is on a fish vertebrae?

Answer 25

Neural arch, Hemal arch

Question 26

Caudal vertebrae in frogs?

Answer 26

No ribs, 1 urostyle

Question 27

Caudal vertebrae in birds?

Answer 27

Pygostyle

Question 28

Caudal vertebrae in apes?

Answer 28

Coccygeal

Question 29

What is a five fingered vertebrae called?

Answer 29

Pentadactyl

Question 30

What are the 3 basic fins called in fish?

Answer 30

Biserial, Ray, Finfold

Question 31

What are biserial fins?

Answer 31

Central axis of bone, series radial bones, pronounced basal lobe, found in lungfish

Question 32

What are ray fins?

Answer 32

Modern bony fish, no basal lobe

Question 33

What are fin fold fish?

Answer 33

Extended base and cartilage

Question 34

What is sprawling?

Answer 34

Most primitive posture

Question 35

What else other than sprawling?

Answer 35

Semi erect & erect

Question 36

What are the 3 grades?

Answer 36

Plantigrade, Digitigrade, Unguligrade