Long Exam 2 Flashcards
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evolved sometime during the Cambrian period, 500 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion, almost at the same time when invertebrates began to develop
Chordates
May have evolved from some freshwater forms as all modern _____ possess glomerular kidneys designed to remove excess water from the body
Chordates
Early fossils of these have been all recovered from marine sediments and even modern protochordate are all marine forms
Chordates
also found in marine forms such as myxinods and sharks
glomerular kidneys
hagfish class Myxini, jawless, boneless, and sightless fish that exhibit unique behavors
myxinods
chordates evolved from them, includes echinoderms, hemichordates, pogonophrans, etc.
deuterostome
fossils of the earliest vertebrates were known from its, about 400 mya
Silurian-Devonian Period
do not have eyes, ears, and jaws but are considered an important organism in studying chordates
Amphioxus
precursor of a backbone, humans carry a vestiges of these (disk in the spine)
Notochord
first mammals with bony jaws
fish
with this happening, organisms become bigger
four fold increase in genes
a group of marine animals that spend most of their lives attached to docks, rocks or the undersides of boats
tunicate
are semi-transparent barrel-shaped marine animals that move through the water by contracting bands of muscles which ring the body
salp
porous walls of its home allow food particles to flow into an inner chamber where this blue, wispy animal feeds
larvacean
showed how reptiles sporting innovations like jaws and legs flourished on land
monitor lizards
origin theory given by Johannes Muller on 1860 based on comparative studies of larval stages of echinoderms and hemichordates
echinoderm origin
resembles echinoderm larvae such as Bipinnaria, Auricularia, Dipleurula, and Doliolaria, which possess ciliary bands and an apical tuft of cilia
Tornaria larva
proposed that echinoderm larvae gave rise to chordates by neoteny
Johannes Muller
W. Garstang
DeBeers
are deuterostomes and possess mesodermal skeletal elements
Echinoderms
fossil echinoderms discovered from the Ordovician period (450 mya)
Calcichordata
Asymmetrical animals that demonstrate affinities with both echinoderms and chordates but their skeleton is made up of CaCO3
calcichordata
Have large pharynx with series of gill slits, each covered with flaps for filter feeding, a small segmented body, and postanal tail
calcichordata
functions for filter-feeding appears to have evolved in diverse groups of animals during the Cambrian-Ordovician periods
perforated pharynx
bones are made up of hydrated calcium and phosphate
vertebrates