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Taxonomic group containing frogs and toads

Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals

<p>Taxonomic group containing salamanders and newts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taxonomic group containing caecilians</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taxonomic group containing crocodiles, alligators, gharials, and caimans</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taxonomic group containing turtles and tortoises</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taxonomic group containing tuataras</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taxonomic group containing snakes, lizards, crocodilians, turtles, extinct dinosaurs, and technically birds</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taxonomic group containing snakes, lizards, worm-lizards, and legless lizards</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>plastron</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>carapace</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shelled eggs which reptiles, birds, and a few mammals have</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3 with a partially separated ventricle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Skin, lungs, and when young gills</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Just lungs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wet mucous-covered skin with no scales</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Water-tight dry scales</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The scientific study of amphibians and reptiles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>4</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Retaining characteristics of an early stage in development into adulthood</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The world's largest amphibian (and salamander)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The world's largest lizard</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The world's largest turtle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nile Crocodile &amp; Saltwater Crocodile</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The world's heaviest snake</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The world's longest snake</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Layer of the amniotic egg that surrounds the growing embryo and provides cushion and support</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Layer of the amniotic egg that collects and stores wastes from the growing embryo</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Layer of the amniotic egg that regulates gas exchange and the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Layer of the amniotic egg that provides the growing embryo with nutrients</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A disease caused by a fungal parasite that contributes to amphibian population decline</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Third eye on certain reptile species, involved in dictating physiological cycles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A special vertebral structure at the base of anuran's backbone that helps absorb shock from jumping</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of asexual reproduction that involves the development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The physical nature of touching bodies during sex</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When eggs and sperm meet inside an animal's body</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When eggs and sperm meet outside of an animal's body</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A transformation or dramatic change of body forms as an animal grows</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sense organ on snake's roof of mouth which detects airborne chemicals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Used by pit vipers, boas, and pythons; detect infrared radiation for nocturnal hunting</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system for naming organisms using two Latin names: genus and species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A branching treelike diagram used to organize living things based on measurable traits</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The highest taxonomic rank of organisms; there are three domains</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A major taxonomic rank below the phylum and above the order</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A taxonomic rank used in classifying organisms, below the class</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of interbreeding</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A taxonomic category of almost the highest rank, grouping all forms of life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One of the eight major taxonomic ranks; classified between order and genus</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism consisting of cells with DNA in the form of chromosomes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism that cannot manufacture its own food</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The science of classifying living things</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Latin</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first word is capitalized (genus) and the second is lowercase (species)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first person to classify living organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The father of modern taxonomy, grouped organisms by structural similarity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Multicellular, heterotrophic, lack a cell wall, and have eukaryotic cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Homo sapiens</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Structures in different species that are similar due to common ancestry</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Similar structures due to adaptations from similar evolutionary pressures</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The mechanism that leads to similar adaptations in unrelated organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A historical remnant of a structure with little use in a modern organism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A branching tree-like depiction of organisms' evolutionary history</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The evolutionary history of a species or group of related species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shared characteristics used to describe organism relationships on a cladogram</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organ that allows fish to be buoyant</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An unpaired fin on the back of a fish or whale</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tail fin</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Flap that covers the gills</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Paired fins positioned in the ventral, posterior portion of the body</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fins situated on either side just behind a fish's head</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nervous sensory system that detects vibrations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Take on too much water and the kidney works to get rid of excess</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Constantly drink water and their urine is concentrated</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fish with a cartilaginous endoskeleton</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fish with a bony endoskeleton</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bony fish with lobed fins, closest relatives to land vertebrates</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bony fish with ray fins, which includes most species today</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The largest fish order containing upwards of 10,000 species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An electrical current sensory organ in the snout of cartilaginous fish</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A protective eyelid that some species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds have</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vertebrates that live on land such as amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The hard teeth-like scales of cartilaginous fish</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fishes that move between fresh and saltwater to complete their lifecycles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The relationship between two species that live in close association</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relationship between two species in which both benefit</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relationship where one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relationship where one species benefits and the other is harmed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, post-anal tail</p> Signup and view all the answers