What is a vertebrate?
Animal that has backbone and a skeleton
What are the 5 vertebrates groups
Fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals
What are invertebrates
cold-blooded animals with no backbone
What are the main groups of invertebrates
What does ectothermic mean?
Body heat comes from an external source
What is a differentiating character of echinoderms
Radial symmetry
2 parts of Deuterostome animals
Echinoderms
Chordata
What groups are endothermic
Within Mammalia and Aves
What is the Aves class
Basically the bird class
Important embryonic features of deuterostomes
Gut develops from anus to mouth
Coelom develops from pockets of mesoderm
Are Deuterostomes mostly vertebrates or invertebrates
Vertabrates
What is an echinoderm
Marine invertebrate groups of deuterostomes
ex. Sea stars, sea urchins
What are the three main traits of an echinoderm
What are the symmetry of echinoderm as larvae and adults
Larvae - bilaterally symmetric
Adults - pentaradial symmetric (5 sided radial symmetry)
What does the endoskeleton in these adults do?
Hard protective, supportive structure inside epidermal tissue.
What is the water vascular system
series of branching, fluid-filled
tubes & chambers that forms a hydrostatic skeleton
Five groups of Echinodermata
4.Echinoidea- sea urchins
& sand dollars
5.Holothuroidea - sea cucumbers
What are the four features of the chordate life cycle
What are the 3 major lineages of Chordates?
Cephalochordates
Urochordates
Vertebrates
Characteristics of Cephalochordates
Urochordates characeteristics
What is a vertebraes and its characteristics
First appeared in oceans 540mya in Cambrian explosion
What formed during the Cambrian period
protective exoskeleton
What formed during the Silurian period
Jaws and later the bony endoskeleton