Fish Taxonomy and Evolution Quiz

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What is the defining characteristic of fish according to the given text?

  • Animals with no limbs or gills
  • Aquatic animals with limbs and gills
  • Gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits (correct)
  • Aquatic and craniate animals with limbs and digits

Which phyla do vertebrates fall into, according to Cladists?

  • Chondriritches
  • Chordata (correct)
  • Osteicthyes
  • Agnatha

What percentage of fish species belong to rayfinned fish?

  • 50%
  • 95% (correct)
  • 80%
  • 75%

Which group do all vertebrates fall into according to the text?

<p>Chordata (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the key features that all chordates have at some stage in life, according to the text?

<p>Notochord, limbs, digits, and scales (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What group did all other tetrapod life evolve from, according to the text?

<p>Lobe finned fish (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the key characteristic of the Dorsal Nerve cord?

<p>Hollow structure with pairs of nerves branching from it (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which group of non-vertebrate chordates consists of filter feeders with an early free swimming larval stage?

<p>Urochordata (sea squirts, tunicates) (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which group is considered very primitive but has been key in understanding vertebrate evolution?

<p>Cephalochordata (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the sister group of the tunicata according to the text?

<p>Tetrapods (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which group of fish is represented by a group of small, jawless, armored fish known as ostracoderms?

<p>Placodermi fossils (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What characteristic is unclear about the advantage of a hinged jaw in jawed vertebrates?

<p>Combination of factors (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why are fishes considered a paraphyletic group?

<p>&quot;Any clade containing all fish also contains the tetrapods&quot; (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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