Zoology Final Exam Flashcards
Tiktaalik
Acanthostega
Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) - Paedomorphosis
Chromatophores
Different ways of frogs nurturing their young
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Ichthyostega
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Anapsid Skull
Diapsid Skull
Jacobson’s Organ
Kinetic Skull (lizards)
Turtle Reproduction= Warmer temperatures make more females
Snake Skull= For swallowing prey
Concertina Movement- to strike or to climb trees
Lateral Undulation- moving through rough ground and water
Rectilinear motion- straight movement using minute lifting of consecutive ribs- large vipers, boas, and pythons
Sidewinder motion- sideways looping by desert vipers that “walks” them across loose sand
Snake- venomous
Synapsid Skull
Tuatara
Turtle structure- limbs and limb girdles are located deep in to ribs
Venomous snakes- pit organ- sense worm-blooded prey
Archaeopteryx Skeleton
Archaeropteryx
Theropod and Bird foot skeleton
Altricial
Precocial
Pneumatic Bone
Prevents bird from falling off branch when asleep
Sinpsauropteryx
Antlers- solid bone
Bat Skeleton- has five fingers like a human
Diverse Cynodonct
Bony Fish
Early Amphibians (lungfish)
Modern Reptile
Bird
Mammal
Insectivore
Nonruminant herbivore
Carnivore
Ruminant Herbivore
Turbinate bones- warm the air
“Lucy”
Mammal
Derived Cynodont
Primitive Cynodont
Pelycosaur
Carnivore (coyote)
Gnawing (beaver)
Grazing, browsing (deer)
Piscivores and plankton feeders (dolphin)
Omnivores (marmoset)
Derived Insectivores (2-toed anteater)
Early insectivore with generalized dentition
Frugivores (fruit-eating bat)