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| How many phyla are there? |
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| All vertebrate animals as well as some invertebrates are classified as... |
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| All Chordates have a ______, supporting rod on the dorsal side of the animal. |
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| What are some chordate characteristics? |
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| hollow dorsal nerve chord, post-anal tail, and pharyngeal (gill) slits |
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| Subphylum _________ contains all animals that replace the notochord with a backbone during development. |
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| What other chordate subphylum contains Lancelets? |
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| What other chordate subphylum contains Tunicates and Sea Squirts? |
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| What class includes hagfish and lampreys? |
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| What animals have elongated, eel-like bodies, and lack paired fins? |
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| What class contains cartilaginous fish with skeletons made entirely of cartilage such as sharks, skates, and rays? |
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| What are fish with thin flexible fins, a swim bladder for bouyancy, and can be goldfish, trout, catfish, seahorses, and tuna. |
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| Ray finned fish, Actinoperygii |
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| What are fish with lobe-fins that walk on the bottom underwater, and have lungs? |
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| What class is adapted to life on land but needs water to survive? |
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| Reptile eggs are covered with a protective, fluid-filled membrane called an ______, making them ________. |
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| Reptiles have what kind of eggs? |
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| What class were dinosaurs? |
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| Birds are currently in what class? |
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| What is the discrepancy between Reptiles and Aves? |
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| Alligators and crocodiles are more closely related to birds. Birds are the descendants of dinosaurs |
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| What characterizes mammals? |
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| hair, sweat glands, and mammary glands, most give birth to live young and a few lay eggs |
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| What is the scientific name of the frog we are dissecting? |
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| What are the external nares of the frog? |
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| Nostrils that connect to internal nares |
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| End of nostrils that are found in the mouth |
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| What is the frog's eardrum? |
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| What is the lower eyelid of the frog? |
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| What is the aperture on the frog's posterior end? |
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| What are the tiny teeth that line the edge of the mouth of the frog? |
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| What are the two patches of teeth in the middle of the frog's upper palate? |
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| The Vomerine teeth are placed between the... |
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| What is the frog's feeding method? |
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| What connects the mouth to the stomach? |
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| What is the opening to the respiratory system? |
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| What are the openings that connect to the middle ear between the eardrums? |
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| Most frogs are ______ (egg-laying) |
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| What is a frog's mating embrace called? |
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| What are involuntary muscles that are not striated? |
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| What is a voluntary muscle that is striated? |
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| What is muscle that is striated but involuntary? |
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