Lophotrocozoa
These three parts compose the soft bodies of organisms in phylum mollusca.
What are the foot, visceral mass, and mantle?
This characteristic is shared by almost all Ecdysozoans and leads to a form of shedding as they grow.
What is the cuticle?
This structure is present in bony fish allows for buoyancy without the need to be actively swimming.
What is the swim bladder?
The word squamates refers these two types of organisms.
What are lizards and snakes?
This organism retains all 4 chordate characteristics throughout its all life.
What are lancelets? (What is cephalochordata)
This class of phylum mollusca contains organisms with 8 dorsal plates that suction onto rocks and found in tidepools.
What is Class Polyplacophora?
These specialized limbs can modified for different functions like for reproduction or feeding, and are found in arachnids.
What are pedipalps?
This type of fish has both lungs and gills and can drag itself across shallow water with its lobe shaped fins.
What is a lungfish?
This feature is primates is typically associated with predators and allows for depth perception.
What are forward facing eyes?
This part of the amniotic egg stores waste and helps form the umbilical chord in mammals.
What is the Allantois?
This phylum of worms is acoelomate, or doesn't have a body cavity.
What is Phylum Platyhelminthes?
An organism with 3 pairs of walking legs and wings is most likely a part of this subgroup of Phylum Arthropoda.
What are insects?
This terms describes how some sharks keep their eggs in the womb until they hatch and then give birth to live young.
What is Ovoviviparous?
These bones are found only in birds and are used as anchors for flight muscles.
What are the wishbone and keel?
This term describes animals which use their metabolic activity to regulate their body temperature.
What are Endotherms?
These pigment dots in the skin of some cephalopods allow for camouflage.
What are chromatophores?
This terms refers to organisms which eat decaying plant materials and describes many organisms in the diplopoda group.
What are detritovores?
This term describes the grouping of jawless fish which have cartilage-based skeletons and include hagfish and lampreys.
What are Cyclostomes?
What reptile subgroup are dinosaurs a part of?
What are archosaurs?
These cells assist with digestion in sponges and produce important materials like spongin.
What are amoebocytes?
This clade of segmented worms are typically burrowing or tube-dwelling and include organisms like leeches.
What are sedentarians?
These organisms are small but aggressive carnivores, have many legs and can be poisonous.
What are centipedes (chilopods)?
This structure evolved from the pharyngeal gill slits and is found only in gnathostomes.
What are jaws?
This group of human ancestors arose about 4 mya and were bipedal also still mostly arboreal.
What are Australopiths?
This group contains animals with calcareous endoskeletons, bilateral symmetry as adolescents, and spiny skin.
What is Echinodermata?