Lab Exam 1 Flashcards
Cattle teeth
- bone
- dental pad on the maxilla replaces incisors/canines
Sheep teeth
- no top incisors has a dental pad
White tail deer teeth
- grinding and chewing teeth
- no top incisors
Horse teeth
- bone, constantly erupting teeth
Mule teeth
- massive bone structures, constantly erupting teeth (much bigger than horse)
- upper incisors for grabbing
Pig teeth
- bone and replica (omnivore)
- lots of molars (grinding teeth)
Human teeth
- replica
- hetero
Cottontail rabbit teeth
- constantly growing teeth
Muskrat and beaver teeth
- very similar
- molar looking, huge incisors
Opossum teeth
- unusually full jaw
- incisors-> very small
- molars-> tricuspid
- canines-> large
Raccoon teeth
- dentition
- 40 teeth adapted to omnivore diet
- k9s are well developed, crowns of molars are cuspidate
Coyote and dog teeth
- very similar
- coyote teeth are longer and slimmer than dog
Cat teeth
- no grinding surfaces because obligate carnivore
Ostrich teeth
- no teeth
- scleral ossicles (bones in the white of the eye)
- lightweight skull
- long (beak)/nose
Chicken Skeleton
- on the base holding the chicken
- bony tongue and hyoid bones
- the scleral ossiclesd
Homodonts
- all super pointy teeth
Ruminants
- mammals
9 banded armadillo teeth
- Homodont
- teeth of similar shape but can be different sizes
- small peglike molars
- open roots-> no enamel
Alligator teeth
- varies from 74 to 80 teeth
- maxillary and mandibular combined
Shark teeth
- Homodont
- all super pointy
Reptiles and fish teeth
- most are homodonts
- but some snakes have modified them into fangs
4 chambers of a ruminant
1) rumen
2) reticulum
3) omasum
4) abomasum
Pig digestive system
- monogastric
Esophagus
- tough inside