fish

Question 1

defines the animal subphylum Vertebra, or vertebrates, of the phylum Chordata

Answer 1

Vertebral Column

Question 2

The neural tube expands in the head to form the brain and in the trunk to form the spinal cord

Answer 2

Neural crest

Question 3

a flattened appendage on various parts of the body of many aquatic vertebrates used for propelling, steering, and balancing.
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Answer 3

Fin

Question 4

a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin

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Scale

Question 5

a secreted plate that closes the aperture of a gastropod mollusk’s shell when the animal is retracted.

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Operculum

Question 6

heart chamber that receives blood into the heart and drives it into a ventricle, or chamber, for pumping blood away from the heart.

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Atrium

Question 7

a hollow part or cavity in an organ.

Answer 7

Ventricle

Question 8

each of the functional units in the kidney, consisting of a glomerulus and its associated tubule, through which the glomerular filtrate passes before emerging as urine.

Answer 8

Nephron

Question 9

system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.

Answer 9

Lateral line

Question 10

release or deposit eggs

Answer 10

Spawning

Question 11

The swim bladder is a gas-filled organ in the dorsal coelomic cavity of fish. Its primary function is maintaining buoyancy, but it is also involved in respiration, sound production, and possibly perception of pressure fluctuations

Answer 11

Swim bladder

Question 12

no jaw

Answer 12

Jawless fish

Question 13

skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.

Answer 13

Cartilaginous fish

Question 14

a skeleton of bone, scales, paired fins, one pair of gill openings, jaws, and paired nostrils.

Answer 14

Bony fish

Question 15

olive in color . The caudal fin is rounded. The dorsal fin is long and extends for more than half of the length of the body.

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Bowfin/Dogfish

Question 16

Its olive or yellowish-brown. It has a yellowish-white belly. broad, flat head and four pairs of dark, whisker-like barbels around its mouth.

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Brown Bullhead

Question 17

yellow-orange-olive-brown sides, which are underneath dozens of black, brown, and red spots and iridescent cheeks.

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Brown Trout

Question 18

skin that ranges in color from black to grey to olive and even yellow. They have elongated dorsal and anal fins that extend all the way to a rounded caudal fin and a distinct

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Burbot/Eelpout

Question 19

grayish-blue sides with a black back and a white belly. with whiskers

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Channel Catfish

Question 20

large omnivorous fish. They have large scales, a long dorsal fin base, and two pairs of long barbels (whiskers) in its upper jaw

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Common Carp

Question 21

have a deep and laterally compressed body. They are usually silvery-gray to green in color and show irregular or mottled black splotches over the entire body.

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Crappie

Question 22

t has smooth, scaleless skin, whisker-like barbels around the mouth, and long spines on the dorsal fin and one on each side of the pectoral fin. has a flat head

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Flathead Catfish

Question 23

flattened snout, with large, fleshy barbels and a protractile mouth located under the head. The lower lip has 2 slightly papillose lobes

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Lake Sturgeon

Question 24

a deeply forked caudal fin and a slate grey to greenish body with lighter undersides

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Lake Trout

Question 25

an olive-green to greenish gray fish, marked by a series of dark, sometimes black, blotches forming a jagged horizontal stripe along each flank.

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Largemouth Bass

Question 26

long, cylindrical body that varies in color from brown to dark olive, with a pale, silvery or whitish belly.

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Long-nose Gar

Question 27

long, torpedo-shaped fish with dorsal and anal fins set close to the tail

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Muskellunge

Question 28

stream-lined - long, slender but muscular, and torpedo-shaped with greenish body coloration on the top and sides, and very light or white coloration on the underside.

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Northern Pike

Question 29

a large, torpedo shaped fish. silver belly and a pink stripe on the sides of its body.

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Rainbow Trout

Question 30

gray to dark silver or yellowish brown with dark blotches on sides.

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Sauger

Question 31

large, round-profiled, silver humpbacked fish. small tail and a silvery cast to its scales. Its mouth is located toward bottom of its face.

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Sheepshead

Question 32

Their elongate body is pale brown or olive green, while their belly is yellow-white in color.

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Smallmouth Bass

Question 33

relatively small, silvery fishes with a very slender, cylindrical shape

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Smelt

Question 34

bluish region on the cheek and gill cover. They are a deep, slab-sided (tall and flat) fish with a small mouth

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Sunfish

Question 35

long and thin, primarily gold and olive in color, with a white belly. The back is crossed with five or more black bands. They have two dorsal fins—one spiny and one soft-rayed

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Walleye

Question 36

an olive brown to black with shading to white on the under side of the fish. They are long and round-bodied with scales that increase in size from the front to the back.

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White Sucker

Question 37

typically light yellow to olive-green on the back. The belly is yellowish to white.

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Yellow Bullhead

Question 38

stocky torpedo shaped body. They are pale yellow to bright orange with 6-7 dark, vertical bars on their side. Their mouth is small and points forward

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Yellow Perch