Myriapods
Millipede and centipede
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Myriapods | Millipede and centipede |
Pan crustaceans | insects and crustaceans |
crustaceans | lobsters, crab, shrimp, pill bugs
Many have highly specialized appendages: walking legs located on thorax; swimming appendages on tail |
Insects | Three regions: Head, thorax, post genital region
complex internal organ system
wings are extensions of the cuticle |
Deuterostomia | Phylum Echinodermata and phylum Chordata
Radical cleavage
Blastopore forms the anus |
Echinodermata | sea stars and sea urchins
Slowly moving marine coelomates
spiny covering on endoskeleton
water vascular system
bilaterally symmetrical larvae |
Chordata | two groups invertebrates and vertebrates |
What type of symmetry do adults exibit? | Bipentral symmetry |
Characteristics of Chordates | Notochord
Hollow nerve chord
pharyngeal slits or clefts
muscular, post- anal tail |
Notochord | a rod that supports the body |
Lancelets | cephaochordata: small fish like invertebrate chordates |
Tunicates | Urochordata: sea squirts |
Vertebrates | Chordates with a backbone
skeletal system and complex nervous system
Efficient at: capturing food and evading prey |
Gnathostomes | Vertebrates that have a jaw and teeth
include sharks, ray finned fish, tetrapods |
Tetrapods | Gnathostomes with limbs
four limbs
a neck
absence of gills
ears |
Amphibians | Most have moist skin that functions as gas exchange
eggs lack a shell
many live in land and water |
Amniotes | Tetrapods that lay eggs with amnion, chorion, yolk sac
Include reptiles, birds, mammals |
Reptiles | Dinosaurs, turtles, snakes,
Dry skin with scales
lay shelled eggs on land
internal fertilization |
Mammals | Amniotes with hair and produce milk
3 major lineages
- monotremes
-marsupials
- eutherians
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Monotremes | Egg laying mammals
Milk comes from glands on belly |
Marsupials | pouched animals
Ex. Kangaroos |
Eutherians | Complex placenta
complete development withing uterus
Ex. Humans |