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Is to frogs as ear canal is to humans
EUSTACHIANTUBES
Contains oxygenated blood from lungs
PULMONARY VEIN
Adult salamander with gills
MUDPUPPY
CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD
Age of Amphibians
ORDER ANURA
Frogs and toads
Greek translation of “Amphibian”
DOUBLELIFE
Caecilians
ORDER APODA
TIKTAALIK
Ancestral lobe-fin
NICTITATING MEMBRANE
Transparent third eyelid
Heart chamber for receiving blood
ATRIUM
Anterior vessel from the heart
CONUSARTERIOSUS
Includes newts and salamanders
ORDER URODELA
CAECILIAN
Legless modern amphibian
CLOACO
Triple-functioned organ
excretion, reproduction, and laying eggs
opening urine, undigested food, eggs, and sperms are passed away.
VENTRICLE
Chamber for pumping blood
TYMPANIC MEMBRANE
Amphibian external eardrum
INTERNALNARES
Is to frogs as nostrils are to humans
Larval form
TADPOLE
living fossil of lobe-finned fish
COELACANTHA
Characteristic of chordates
DORSAL HOLLOW NERVECORD
PHARYNGEAL GILLS
Respiratory structure in fish
Backbone structure
VERTEBRAE
Phylum including vertebrates
CHORDATA
SINUSVENOSUS
Collects deoxygenated blood in fish heart