Terms 1
A connective tissue that is firm but flexible.
What is cartilage?
Has scales, gills, fins, and a 2-chambered heart.
What is a fish?
What are gills?
Has a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
No living examples of the organism are known to exist.
What is extinct?
Living examples of the organism are known to exist.
What is extant?
A bony fish.
What is osteichthyes?
Name of structure labeled as k.
What is stomach?
A jawless fish.
What is agnatha?
A location on a coral reef where larger fish come to be cleaned of parasites and dead skin by cleaner organisms like wrasse and shrimp.
What is a cleaning station?
Producing live young that received nutrients and oxygen directly from the mother.
What is viviparous?
Cartilaginous fish with a jaw.
What is chondrichthyes?
Name of structure labeled as e.
What is dorsal fin?
An amphibian that has no legs as an adult.
What is apoda?
Producing young by laying eggs that hatch later.
What is oviparous?
An organism that is a living examples of an otherwise extinct group and has remained virtually unchanged in structure and function.
What is a living fossil?
An amphibian that has no tail as an adult.
What is anura?
Name of structure labeled d.
What is swim bladder?
An amphibian with a tail as an adult.
What is caudata?
A superficial resemblance between two animals that are not closely related.
What is mimicry?
Producing young by means of eggs that are hatched inside one of the parents.
What is ovoviviparous?
A fish fossil that has some bones in common with tetrapods.
What is Tiktaalik?
Name of structure labeled j.
What is pelvic fin?
This is an example of an animal from the order Caudata.
What are salamanders? or
What are newts? or
What are mudpuppies?
A life cycle in which fish are born in freshwater, migrate to saltwater to live, and then return to freshwater to spawn.
What is anadromous?