Skeleton/Muscles

Question 1

What is the pelvis like in ceteans?

Answer 1

Vestigial. No locomotive function.

Question 1

What is the autopodium?

Answer 1

Distant part of limb: hand or foot

Question 2

How many bones are in more therians pectoral girdle?

Answer 2

2

Question 2

What are somatic muscles?

Answer 2

Skeletal, voluntary

Question 3

Where the pelvic girdle fused?

Answer 3

Ischiopubic symohysis

Question 3

What is the variation of the manus and pes based on?

Answer 3

Locomotion type

Question 4

What are nonsomatic muscles?

Answer 4

Visceral (cardiac), involuntary

Question 5

Which species have strong clavicles?

Answer 5

Squirrels

Question 5

What is the pes?

Answer 5

Foot or hind foot

Question 7

How many cervial vertebrae are there?

Answer 7

7

Question 7

What is the Hallux?

Answer 7

Big toe

Question 9

How many thoracic vertebrae are there?

Answer 9

12-15

Question 10

Where are the thoracic vertebrae?

Answer 10

In the chest

Question 11

Which animals have less cervical vertebrae?

Answer 11

Sloths and manatees

Question 12

What makes up the appenidcular skeleton?

Answer 12

Girdles, limbs, hands, feet, pelvis

Question 13

What is the propodium?

Answer 13

Upper limb

Question 14

What does the structure of the cervial vertebrae allow?

Answer 14

The skull to idependently move both vertically and horizontally

Question 15

What is the manus?

Answer 15

Hand or forefoot

Question 17

How man caudal vertebrae are there?

Answer 17

3-5

Question 18

How many lumbar vertebrae are there?

Answer 18

4-7

Question 18

What is the epipodium?

Answer 18

Lower limb

Question 19

How is the pelvic girdle joint?

Answer 19

Sacroiliac joint

Question 20

How many sacral vertebrae are there?

Answer 20

3-5

Question 21

Which pectoral bone is reduced or lost in cursorial animals?

Answer 21

Clavicle

Question 22

Which are the first cervical vertebrates behind the back of the skull?

Answer 22

Atlas and axis

Question 23

How many pairs of ribs do whales have?

Answer 23

9

Question 25

How is the pectoral girdle joint?

Answer 25

Sling appendicular muscles

Question 26

What is the pollex?

Answer 26

Thumb

Question 28

What makes up the axial skeleton?

Answer 28

Skull, vertebrae, ribs, sternum

Question 29

Which bones are in the epipodium?

Answer 29

Radius, ulna, tibia and fibula

Question 31

How many pairs of ribs do sloths have?

Answer 31

24

Question 32

How many digits is the ancestral number?

Answer 32

5

Question 33

What is the name of the hominoid caudal?

Answer 33

Coccyx

Question 34

What is the average number of pairs of ribs?

Answer 34

12

Question 35

Which bones are in the propodium?

Answer 35

Humerus and femur

Question 36

Where are the lumbar vertebrae located?

Answer 36

Bottom of the back

Question 37

Which 3 bones are in the pelvic girdle?

Answer 37

Ilium, Ischium, Pubis

Question 38

What is the main adaptation of the skull for?

Answer 38

Foraging

Question 39

What are the 2 bones in the pectoral girdle?

Answer 39

Scapula and clavicle

Question 40

What does the fusion of caudal vertebrae create?

Answer 40

Tail