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| A notochord is most correctly defined as |
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| A flexible stiffening rod extending the length of the body |
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| Which is NOT a mammal strategy for mammalian herbivores digesting cellulose? |
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| Directly digesting cellulose by stomach enzymes |
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| A unique anatomical design in turtles is that the |
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| limb girdles are inside the ribs |
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-are in the class Petromyzontida
-may be anadromous
-have a sucking mouth with teeth and a rasping tongue.
-hatch as ammocoete larvae |
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| Most terrestrial salamanders gertilize eggs by |
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| internal fertilization after the female has picked up spermatophores deposited by the male |
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| In order to fly, birds must have the following adaptations |
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-a lightweight skeleton
-a highly efficient respiratory system
- a high-pressure circulatory system
-well-developed nervous and sensory systems |
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-have a syunapsid skull
-evolved from therapsid reptiles
-have hair ad 3 middleear bones
-excrete rea as their primary ntrogenus waste |
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| A duckbilled platypus is an exception to many mammals because it |
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| doestn't give live birth but lays eggs |
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| In humans, pharyngeal pouches give rise to |
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| eustachian tubes, tonsils and parathyroid glands |
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| The glands that are NOT derived from the mammalian integument are |
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ALL OF THE CHOICES ARE DERIVED FROM INTEGUMENT*
-sebaceous glands
-sweat glands
-scent glands
-mammary glands |
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| The oral tentacles of the sea cucumber are |
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| Amphibian metamorphosis is regulated by |
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| T3 and T4, hormones secreted by the thyroid gland |
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| What feature(s) separates a shark from a blue-gill (Class Actinopterygii)? |
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-Operculum versus gill slits
-cartilage versus bones
-internal versus external fertilization
-no swim bladder versus swim bladder |
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| The most speciose class of echinoderms is _____ |
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| Which is NOT one of the general features that make birds and reptiles similar? |
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| If you remove one or more cells from a molluscan embryo, developmet will most likely NOT continue because |
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| mollusks are protostomes and exhibit indeterminant cleavage |
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-Is primarily a reproductive funciton of males
-is produced by passing air back and forth between the lungs and vocal cords
-uses the large vocal sacs as resonators |
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| Which marsupial is found in North America? |
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| Shark reproduction and development involves |
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| cases of oviparous, ovoviviparous, and viviparous strategies |
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| Echinoderms are capable of ____. When threatened they can cast off an arm or release internal organs |
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| The _____ mechanism of fish gills provides very efficient gas exchange by maintaining a converntration gradient between the blodd and the water over the entire length of the capillary bed. |
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| The hagfish has a keen sense of |
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| smell and touch in order to locate dead and dying fish |
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| The perforated pharynx of chordates first evolved as a device for |
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| suspension or filter feeding |
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| When a lizard is grasped by the tail, caudal vertebrae can be broken, and a portion of the tail lost. Tail loss, or ___, is an adaptation that allows a lizard to escape from a predator's grasp |
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| The name of the bottom shell on a turtle that is continuous with the breastbone (sternum) is the |
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| Newly hatched birds that lack down and are nest-bound, unable to feed on their own, as with baby wrents or robins are |
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| Why are the endostyle and thyroid gland considered homologous structures? |
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| both strucutures produce iodinated protiens |
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| Anyone who has washed a car knows that bird wastes are different from mammal feces and urine. This is because |
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| Birds excrete uric acid with most of the water removed |
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| Amphibians were the first vertebrate invaders of land, but most still must return ot the water to |
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| are enclosed in an endoskeletal test or shell |
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| We don't find the eggs of garter snakes, rattlesnakes adn copperheads because they retain the eggs internally and young appear to be born alive but actually 'hatch' inside, a condition called |
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-are called tunicates or sea squirts
-are marine chordates
-are sessile as adults, but tadpole-like as larvae
-have a non-living tunic composed of protiens, salts, and cellulose |
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| Birds have highly developed eyes that help them |
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-locate mates
-fly through the air at a fast speed
-locate food from a distance
-avoid predators adn defend territory |
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| Mammals have a variety of teeth specialized for different functions, a pattern called |
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| The digestive system contributes to the success of birds as flying animals because |
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| In sea stars, tube feet run along the ___ groove that extends along the oral side from the mouth to the tip of each arm |
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-Are found in tropical regions of the world
-are blind or nearly blind as adults
-are elongate, burrowing animals
-use coppulation for internal fertilization
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-Includes the amphibians and amniotes
-does not include the fish
-includes humans |
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| The mechanism whereby buoyancy is achieved in different kinds of fishes is |
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-through the presence of a large, oily liver when a swim bladder is not present
-through the presence of a swim bladdre that is kept filledas the fish periodically swims to the surface and gulps air
-throug h the presence f a swim pladder that is reguled internally by structure that addor remove air from the bladder by caillary beds
-the reuction of heavy tissures in fishes. the bones of fishes are generally less dense than those of terrestrial vertebrates. |
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-are in the Class Sarcopterygii
-can survive for extended periods without water
-exhibit double circulation
-are found in South America and Africa |
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| One marine chordate has an unusual heart. the heart will beat and drive the blood in one direction, pause, reverse its action and then drive the blood in the opposite direction. Identify this chordate |
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| Sea squirt, a urochordate |
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| An advancement that nonavian reptiles show over amphibians is |
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-a tough, scaly skin that provides protection against desiccation
-some form of copulatory organ permitting internal fertilization
0 a shelled egg that can be ladi on dry land
-more musclar jaws |
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| When a snake flicks its tongue out to 'tast' the air or my hand, it must return the tips of he tongue past the ___________ in the roof of its mouth to detect the 'taste' |
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-have a blastopore
-exhibit radial and indeterminant cleavave
-include echinoderms adn chordates
-have a true coelom |
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| Unique characteristics of echinoderms include all of the following EXCEPT |
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| Marine, freshwater, and terrestrial species |
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-is the largest class of vertebrates
-includes freshwater and marine species
-is characterized by paired fins, homocercal tail and external fertilization (some exceptions) |
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