Duration of pregnancy does not exceed the length of the estrous cycle. Placenta does secrete progesterone. ... Example: Human, monkeys, mare, sheep and ...
Chapter 22: Specialized Teeth, Hair, Endothermy, and Viviparity Usual Fertilization Occurs in upper third of the oviduct within hours of copulation Delayed ...
Oviparity- eggs are shed into the environment. Viviparity- eggs are retained internally ... Allantois: evagination from cloaca; forms part of mammalian bladder. ...
There are 50 known hormones ... Hermaphrodite. Parthenogenesis. Viviparity. Your Right! ... Hermaphrodites have both male and female reproductive parts ...
General characteristics of nekton Larger body size Greater swimming power Most nekton animals are vertebrates, ... up to 54 embryos Viviparity (long longevity) ...
A shark that has an air weight of 1,000 kg. weighs only 3.3kg in water ... Ganoid: Sturgeon & Paddlefish. Ctenoid. Class Chondrichthyes. 10. Feeding ...
Elasmobranchs - sharks (360 species in two major groups), skates and rays (450 species) ... Sharks as predators: locate prey in a geographic sense. detect prey ...
Some have young born alive (viviparous) with extraembryonic ... Cotton Mouth. Broad dark stripe present behind eye. Black crossbands on lighter. background. ...
inherited from their common ancestor (homology) informative traits are shared ... parsimony. Use parsimony to build a phylogeny: outgroup? homologies? ...
Trunk divided into thoracic and abdominal cavities by diaphragm ... yak 'man of the forest' orangutan. largest monkey. mandrill. largest herds. springbok ...
Center for Shark Research. Sharks. Rays. Freshwater elasmobranchs: ... Ancient intracoastal lagoon system. Longest river in FL (310 miles) Width varies (2 miles ...
Water conservation-kangaroo rats. Chapter 33: Deuterostomate ... kangaroo rats live in desert and are able to survive. with little water by concentrating urine ...
Carcharodon carcharias: The Great White Shark The Great White Shark The Great White Shark is a creature not to be feared, but rather revered, respected, and protected.
All structures are prefigured in the germ cells. ... Regeneration in Hydra 'developmental force' Left-coiled snails can produce right-coiled progeny ...
Stress proteins first identified in salamanders. The Most Important Reason ... Crocodile. Rhynchocephalia (Sphenodontida or Tuatara) Lizard-like in appearance. ...
The Behavior of White Sharks and their Pinniped Prey during predatory attacks ... Focus: reef sharks (requim) Order Orectolobiformes Carpetsharks: Overview ...
Reproduction. Alexis Draper. Lorraine Thompson. Tomasita Jallad. Sexual Reproduction ~ two individuals produce offspring that have genetic characteristics from ...
... infernalis (Big Bend National Park, Texas, photo:H.W.Greene) ... Longhorns (Bos taurinus, Wichita Mountains, OK; photos:H.W.Greene) What is a mammal? ...
Some have young born alive (viviparous) with extraembryonic membranes ... various ruderal situations such as berms along canals and old-field successional ...
fusion of two haploid gametes (sperm and egg) to form a diploid zygote ... Fission: asexual reproduction of a sea anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima) ...
Reptiles Reptiles First truly terrestrial vertebrates ~7000 species worldwide ~300 species in U.S. and Canada Reptiles Probably best remembered for what they once ...
Arthropods are different from all other animals because they are eucoelomates with a hard, segmented body. The phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot) consists of most of ...
The first reptiles were small four-legged lizards. During the Mesozoic era (Age of Reptiles) ... Males climb onto females back, and grasps her into a amplexus ...
The shark is usually white on its under side and grey or dark blue on ... At birth, a 5-foot-long, 60 pound pup looks and acts exactly like a miniature adult. ...
Nourishment of newborn with milk. Close mother-offspring bond. Evolved in association WITH dyphylodont teeth ... Platypus: only left ovary functional (as in birds) ...
Budding = asexual reproduction in which outgrowth becomes a new ... Parthenogenesis = development of an egg into new individual without fertilization ...
REPTILES. JEOPARDY. S2C06 Jeopardy Review. Classification. Vocabulary ... A: What is Squamata? This order includes snakes and lizards. S2C06 Jeopardy Review ...
Non-binding Practice Quiz - next week. Readings for next week - on ... Copepod Development. Plankton Size Classes. Planktonic Biomass. by Season and Location ...
Chapter 4 and 5 Variations in the Physical Environment Biomes Organisms: constant tension with P.E. Variations in physical environment adaptation diversity of life.
... have fleshy blob tongues that apprehend food, are typically territorial and ... have specialized chemosensory tongues, apprehend food with their jaws, are ...
Mammary Glands. Mammary glands are derived from apocrine glands, and function to provide ... of a collar of skin around the opening of the mammary ducts. ...