Major Taxonomic Groups within The Vertebrates
Jawless Fishes such as lamprey and hagfish belong to this group.
What are the Agnathans?
All animals are multicellular heterotrophs that use oxygen for this process.
What is Aerobic Cellular Respiration?
In many primitive and modern chordates, these were used for filter feeding?
What are gill slits?
The spinal column is made up of these segments.
What is vertebrae?
An example describing this feature within the environment includes the blue whale which can have a mass of more than 150 000 kg.
What is size?
This group contains those whose skeletons and are made of cartilage, who have jaws, vertebrae, gill slits, and paired appendages.Their fins are often thick and many are predators to other fish.Their reproduction uses internal fertilization and most species are marine.
What are the Chondrichthyes?
Name the flexible rod found in some chordates; in most modern chordates it is replaced by vertebrae during embryonic development.
What is a Notochord?
This animal is believed to be the largest ever to have lived.
What is the blue whale?
This group has vertebrate skeletons and large brains that make them powerful and agile swimmers.They make up the majority of vertebrate species.
What are fish?
Pit viper snakes have the ability to detect infrared radiation. Special pits on the sides of their heads detect this thermal energy, which is given off by warm-blooded mammals and birds. They are an example describing this feature.
What is sensory ability?
What kinds of animals that were mentioned belong to Reptilia; those that breathe with their lungs, use internal fertilization and, have amniotic eggs with soft shells.
What are snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and more?
Unlike plants and fungi, most animals have this ability and also have amazing sensory ability and are capable of very complex behaviours.
What is motile? (they can move around)
This egg has an outer leathery or hard shell and specialized internal membranes that protect and nourish the embryo.
What is an amniotic egg?
The large, protected brains, along with these three advanced sensory organs, allow vertebrates to sense their environment and move in coordinated ways.
What are eyes, ears, and noses?
The example used for the life cycles feature is the females of the recently extinct gastric brooding frog in which swallow this.
What are their fertilized eggs?
Bony fishes such as bass, trout, tuna, salmon belong to this group.
What are the Actinopterygii?
The Chordata are almost entirely vertebrates which are animals with either of these.
What is a dorsal backbone or notochord?
Mammals, including humans, retain similar membranes around their developing fetuses, however, only a few mammals, such as these two, still lay shelled eggs.
What are the platypus and the echidna?
These two groups can regulate their body temperature, enabling them to stay active in cold environments while other life forms are dormant.
What are birds and mammals?
Finding a mate in the deep ocean is extremely difficult. So when the tiny male angler fish finds one, he bites onto the body of the female and remains attached to her for the rest of his life. The body of the female grows into the mouth of the male, and their circulatory systems fuse. When the female is releasing her eggs, hormones in her blood travel into the body of the male and cause it to release sperm, and this describes this feature.
What is life cycles?
Those that belong to this group are tetrapods and have hair, are warm-blooded (endothermic), use internal fertilization and, have large brains and acute vision and sense of smell.
What are the Mammalia?
The more we learn about the biology of animals, the more we learn about ourselves. We also improve our understanding of the origin and cause of this and how best to keep our bodies and minds healthy.
What are human diseases?
Over time, chordates developed key features like vertebrae, paired appendages, a bony skeleton, and this.
What are more advanced brains and sensory?
Fish make up the majority of vertebrate species.Their vertebrate skeletons and large brains make them powerful, agile swimmers, far outpacing any invertebrates. Over time, some fish developed paired appendages, which led to the evolution of this.
What are bony limbs?
The longest migration of any animal is that of the arctic tern. Their annual zigzagging return trip can cover a distance of over 71 000 km and this is an example describing this feature.
What is behaviour?