Tripoblastic - Deuterostomes - Chordata - Reptilia

Question 1

Reptiles don’t have feathers or hair but

Answer 1

Scales

Question 2

Endothermic or ectothermic?

Answer 2

Endothermic

Question 3

Lungs ventilated by

Answer 3

chest movement

Question 4

How many heart chambers

Answer 4

3 or 4

Question 5

Amniotic egg laid where?

Answer 5

on land, often in burrow

Question 6

Reptiles are a paraphyletic group which means

Answer 6

They do not include all descendants of their most recent common ancestor

Question 7

Most reptiles jaw muscles are protected by what?

Answer 7

outside cranium (brain box) and there are indentations into cranium

Question 8

‘Anapsid’

Answer 8

No arch

Question 9

Jaw movements can squeeze what?

Answer 9

Brain

Question 10

Modern turtles have short jaws and

Answer 10

Toothless beaks

Question 11

‘Synapsid’

Answer 11

single arch: modern mammals

Question 12

‘Diapsid’

Answer 12

two arches: modern lizards, snakes and crocodiles

Question 13

(Reptile order) What are testudines?

Answer 13

Turtles, terrapins and tortoises

Question 14

What forms testudine shells?

Answer 14

Dorsal and ventral plats - bones on inside and scales on outside

Question 15

Unlike snakes, testudine skin…

Answer 15

is moulted continually

Question 16

Testudines are the only vertebrates with what enclosed by ribs?

Answer 16

Pectoral and pelvic girdles

Question 17

(Reptile order) What does tuatara mean?

Answer 17

Peaks on the back

Question 18

Tuatara have a third…

Answer 18

Eye covered with pigmented scales (unknown function)

Question 19

(Reptile order) What does squamata mean?

Answer 19

Scaled

Question 20

Squamata are covered in scales made of?

Answer 20

Keratin - reduces water loss

Question 21

Can squamata both both upper and lower jaws?

Answer 21

Yes. Snakes can swallow large prey

Question 22

Squamata hearts have…

Answer 22

3 chambers partially separating oxygenated blood from deoxygenated blood

Question 23

Males have paired penises with

Answer 23

Hooks

Question 24

How are snake’s organs arranged

Answer 24

Paired organs mostly lie one in front of the other to fit into narrow body

Question 25

Females guard eggs until

Answer 25

Hatching and in some species, continue to guard and communicate after hatching

Question 26

Sex determination by temperature?

Answer 26

Greater than 30 degrees males, lower than 30 are females

Question 27

What group are extinct reptiles?

Answer 27

Dinosaurs

Question 28

When did dinosaurs first appear?

Answer 28

230 million years ago

Question 29

‘Dinosaur’

Answer 29

Enormous lizard

Question 30

Early dinosaurs were split into 2 major orders

Answer 30

Saurischia )lizard hipped) and Ornithischia (bird hipped)