Ch 5 Flashcards
(40 cards)
This is the largest group of chordates
Ray-finned fish (A)
This group is characterized by having cutaneous respiration
Amphibians (C)
This clade contains the jawless vertebrates
Agnatha (C)
The first group to live completely on land, including reproduction, due to a unique adaptation
Amniota (B)
These shelled reptiles can live to be “100 years young dude”
Testundines (B)
This structure helps give bird skeletons strength while minimizing weight
Pneumatic bones (B)
Bird red blood cells are different from mammal cells because they have
Nuclei (C)
Birds breath through ____ unlike humans
unidirectional flow (A)
These mammals are characterized by incomplete fetal development
Marsupials (A)
Two characteristic unique only to mammals are
Mammary glands and hair (A)
The group of primates that we belong to is the
Anthropoids (C)
This allowed primates to move through the trees
All three together are correct (D)
We have ___ teeth meaning we have different kinds in our mouths
Heterodonts (B)
The weasel family is characterized by a well developed ___ gland
Apocrine (A)
The vertebrate jaw evolved from these structures
Gill arches (C)
Which of the following is not a structure found in all chordates
Pre anal tail (C)
This clade has fleshy fish supported by bone
Sarcoptergii (A)
This clade includes the bony fish and cartilaginous fish
Osteichthyes (B)
The lamprey are in the group
Petromyzontidae (C)
This clade was present 370 million year ago
Chondrichthyes (B)
Four limbs and a tail characterize these amphibians
Urodela (C)
We have a tail bone, snakes and glass lizards have limbs, these structures are known as __ traits
Vestigial (C)
These are the “scaly” reptiles
Squamata (C)
The only endothermic non-mammalian animals are the
birds (B)