cold-blooded vertabrates Flashcards

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an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

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vertabrates

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dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat. warm blooded animal

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Endotherms

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an organism that regulates its body temperature largely by exchanging heat with its surrounding environment.cold blooded animal

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Ectotherms

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4
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a visible line along the side of a fish consisting of a series of sense organs that detect pressure and vibration.

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Lateral Line

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5
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organs in most underwater creatures used to breathe

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Gills

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6
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Heterostraci

Arandaspididae

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Jaw less Fishes examples

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7
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shark stingray saw fish

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Cartilaginous Fishes examples

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8
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catfish eel tuna

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Bony Fishes

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9
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fish maw or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) to control their buoyancy, and thus to stay at their current water depth without having to waste energy in swimming.

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Swim Bladder

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10
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a cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. They are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.

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Amphibians

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11
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organs used to breath

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Lungs

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12
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the baby version of a frog

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Tadpole

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13
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a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or supernatural means.

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Metamorphosis

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14
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worm like creatures

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Caecilians

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15
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look like a cross between snakes and lizards

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Salamanders

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16
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slimy skinned

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Frogs

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fat bumpy skinned

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Toads

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a vertebrate animal of a class that includes snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, and tortoises. They are distinguished by having a dry scaly skin and typically laying soft-shelled eggs on land.

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Reptiles

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The type of egg produced by reptiles, birds, and prototherian (egg-laying) mammals (amniotes), in which the embryo develops inside an amnion. The shell of the egg is either calcium-based or leathery. “amniotic egg.

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Amniotic Eggs

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hard outer shell live in water

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Turtles

21
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hard outer shell live on land

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Tortoises

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are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, all of whose members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily.

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Crocodiles

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Both males and females have an “armored” body with a muscular, flat tail. The skin on their back is armored with embedded bony plates called osteoderms or scutes. … Alligators have between 74 and 80 teeth in their mouth at a time.

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Alligators

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elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.

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Snakes

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dry, scaly skin. They have four legs, clawed feet, and a long tail. … Lizard tails help in balance and movement.

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lizards

26
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reptiles endemic to New Zealand. Although resembling most lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. … The single species of tuatara is the only surviving member of its order, which flourished around 200 million years ago.

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Tuataras