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Lecture 17: Vertebrates Flashcards

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Vertebrates

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  • Development of a skeletal system and more complex nervous system
  • Better ability to chase prey and run from predators
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Most vertebrates have vertebrae that enclose the

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spinal cord
* Replaces the mechanical roles of the notochord

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Early-diverged vertebra traits

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  • No jaws
  • Cartilage skeleton, composed of extracellular matrix proteins like collagen
  • Cartilage can be mineralized with calcium for added support
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Gnathostomes: Ancient Greek, gnathos-stoma, ‘jaw-mouth’

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  • Cartilage fish (sharks, rays, etc.)
  • One of the biggest and most successful vertebrate predators in oceans
  • Predominantly cartilage skeleton
  • Limited use of mineralization may be a ‘derived trait’ for these species, as mineralization was present before they diverged from other vertebrates
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Jaws

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hinged structures that enable
animals to grip food items / slice them

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Ray-finned fishes

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  • Fins are made of bony rays connected with webs without muscular structure
  • Most of the extant ‘fish’ species are ray-finned
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Lobe-fin fishes

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  • Pectoral and pelvic fins have a thick muscle
    supporting the bony fin
  • Muscular fins can be used to walk on the bottom of the water
  • Not a lot of extant species (with exception)
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Ray-finned fishes and lobe-finned fishes skeleton and skeletal composition

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Nearly all have ossified (bony) endoskeleton with a hard matrix of calcium phosphate

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Three major groups of Lobe-fin fishes

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Coelacanths
Lung fish
Tetrapods

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Coelacanths definition

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(pronounced SEE-le-kanth): The ‘living fossil’ that is believed to have remained unchanged from its ancestral shape for ~400 million years

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Lung fish definition

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Fish who has lungs as the means for gas exchange (in addition to gills)

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Tetrapods definiton

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Sister group of lung fish who adapted to life on land
* Muscular, pectoral and pelvic fins of lobe-fin fishes evolved into limbs with digits

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Tetrapods structure and evolutionary timeline

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  • Tetrapods are Gnathostomes that have limbs with digits
  • Greek,”four feet”
  • Diverged about 365 million years ago
  • Limbs support animal’s weight on land while digits efficiently transmit forces to the ground when walking
  • Limbs changing into hands, wings and flippers
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Amphibians

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  • Salamanders, frogs, caecilians
  • Amphibian (‘both ways of life) refers to the dual life stages of frogs
  • Tadpole: Aquatic larval stage, herbivore, legless, tail, gills
  • Frog: Terrestrial adult stage, carnivore, legs, tailless, lungs
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Many amphibians are strictly __ or __

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aquatic, terrestrial
* Still need to inhabit moist habitat
* Major gas exchange through skin
* Lays egg in moist environment or in water; eggs are not well protected from desiccation

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Amniotes

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  • Amniotes are tetrapods with terrestrially adapted eggs
  • Reptiles and mammals
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Amniotic egg contains

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specialized membranes to nurture the embryo
* Amnion is the membrane that encloses the amniotic fluid which the embryo floats in
* Other membranes function in gas exchange, transfer of nutrients, waste storage

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Amniotic egg allows terrestrial organisms to

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nurture embryo without having access to a body of water

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Reptiles

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Turtles, tuataras, lizards, snakes, crocodilians, birds

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Many reptiles such as lizards and snakes are

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ectothermic
* ‘Cold blooded’
* Use the environment (sun/shade)to
regulate their body temperature
* Need tenth of the energy to survive compared to a mammal of the same size

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Birds are

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endothermic
* Uses metabolic activity to maintain body
temperature
* Less energy efficient but resilient to harsher environments

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Mammals

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Mammals are Amniotes that have hair and produce milk to nurture the young

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Milk

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balanced diet rich in fats, sugars, proteins, minerals and vitamins
* Produced in mammary glands

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Mammals are __ with high metabolic rate

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endothermic
* Hair and fat layer under the skin provides insulation

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Mammals have a ___ for body size
larger brain * Allows complex learning behavior such as offspring learning skills from parents (knowledge transfer, not just 'learning')
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Three mammalian types
* Monotremes * Marsupials * Eutherians (placental mammals)
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Monotremes are found only in
Australia and New Guinea * Platypus and echidnas * Lays eggs, as with other non- mammalian amniotes
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Marsupials
* Opossums, kangaroos, koalas, etc. * Embryo develops inside the female body, nurtured by the placenta * Child born very early in development and gets nourished in the mother's pouch
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Most extant marsupials are in the
Australian region * Opossum are the few marsupial species that still survive in North/central America * Convergent evolution have given rise to many marsupials which look similar to placentals that occupy similar ecological niches
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Eutherians (placental mammals)
* Have placenta that are more complex than marsupials * Longer pregnancy * Young eutherians complete their embryonic development within the uterus
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Eutherians (placental mammals) life forms and habitats
* Various life forms and habitats * Wide range of food, meat, nuts, grass, insects, etc.
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Teeth variety observed in Mammals
* Teeth of mammals bear a variety of sizes and shapes adapted for chewing many kinds of foods * This type of variety is observed mainly in mammals, and is one reason for their success
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Carnivore digestive tract
* Large, expandable stomachs are common on carnivorous vertebrates * Need to eat large when they can, long intervals between feeding
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Herbivore & Omnivore digestive tract
* Herbivores and omnivores have longer alimentary canals relative to body size, as compared to carnivores * Vegetation is more difficult to digest rather than meat because of cell walls * Longer digestive tract furnishes more time for digestion and more surface area for absorption of nutrients
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Gut microbiome
we co-exist with beneficial microbes living in our intestine
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Mutualistic gut microbiome is especially important in
herbivores * Vertebrates cannot digest cellulose cell wall of plants to convert it to energy
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How do Herbivores digest the cellulose cell wall?
Many herbivores host various mutualistic bacteria and protists in fermentation chambers of their alimentary canals * These microorganisms digest cellulose to simple sugars that the animal can absorb
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Three main groups of primates
* Lemurs, lorises and bush babies * Tarsiers * Anthropoids: monkeys, apes
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Primates
* Earliest known primates were tree dwellers * All primates have thumbs that is separate from other fingers to easily grasp branches
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All monkeys and apes have fully
opposable thumb * Can touch the ventral (fingerprint) side of all four fingers with the ventral surface of thumb (🤌)
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Traits observed in Primates
* Eyes on one side of the face (overlapping vision) which gives better depth of perception * Large brain, short jaws, flat face * Well developed parental care and complex social behaviour
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Species of Apes
* Gibbons (Hylobates sp.) * Orangutans (Pongo sp.) * Gorilla (Gorilla sp.) * Chimpanzees and bonobos (Pan sp.) * Humans (Homo sp.)
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Shared traits for Apes
* Usually larger than monkeys * No tail * Only gibbons and orangutans are primary arboreal (lives on trees)
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What trait is not yet seen in Apes
No bipedal locomotion yet
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Hominins
extinct species which are more closely related to humans than to other apes
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___ seen in early hominins (since ~6.5 million years ago)
Bipedal locomotion
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Multiple lineages of __ existed throughout the history of evolution
bipedal hominins
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We (Homo sapiens) are the __ which survived; others are extinct
only hominin lineage
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__ may have evolved after bipedal locomotion
Use of tools
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Evidence for use of tools and observed in which species
* Evidences show hominins cutting flesh from the bones of animals * Other non-hominin apes can use tools too * Orangutans putting sticks into holes to fish food, etc.
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The genus Homo
* Early Homo all spread from Africa into Europe/Asian regions as they diversified * Homo habilis, 2.4–1.6 million years ago * Homo ergaster, 1.9–1.5 million years ago
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Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis)
* Burying their dead * Hunting tools from stone and wood * Extinct 28000-40000 years ago
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Neanderthals is a different lineage as compared to humans, but ___
but some gene flow did exist between the two species via inbreeding
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Homo sapiens (Human)
* About 200000 years old (0.2 million years) * Bipedal locomotion * Language, symbolic thought, artistic expression, manufacture and use of complex tools * Reduced jawbone, jaw muscles, shorter digestive tract

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