Biodiversity: Terms and Definitions in Biology, Quizzes of Biology

Download Biodiversity: Terms and Definitions in Biology and more Quizzes Biology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Biodiversity (subsets of) DEFINITION 1 GeneticSpeciesEcosystem TERM 2 Type of symmetry most animals have DEFINITION 2 Bilateral TERM 3 Basis of taxonomy DEFINITION 3 Morphological characteristicsMolecular DataFossil Records TERM 4 Clades DEFINITION 4 Share ancestral characteristics TERM 5 First group separated from eumetazoa DEFINITION 5 Porifera TERM 6 Bilateria divided into DEFINITION 6 ProtostomesDeuterostomes TERM 7 Acoelomate DEFINITION 7 No body cavity TERM 8 Pseudocoelomate DEFINITION 8 Have pseudocoelom, lack true coelom TERM 9 Coelomate DEFINITION 9 Has a coelom TERM 10 Sponges DEFINITION 10 Phylum poriferaNo symmetryspiculescollar cells TERM 21 Echinodermata DEFINITION 21 ---Water vascular system---triploblastic, coelomate, marine TERM 22 Invertebrate Chordates (Subphyla) DEFINITION 22 urochordatacephalochordata TERM 23 Tetrapods DEFINITION 23 four limbs w/ digitsneckfusion of pelvic girdle with hipbone TERM 24 Precursors to amphibians DEFINITION 24 Lobe-fin fish TERM 25 Amphibians DEFINITION 25 Salamanders - tailsFrogs - no tails, complex life cycleCaecilians - tropical TERM 26 Amniotes DEFINITION 26 Lay eggs on landReptiles, birds, mammals TERM 27 endotherms DEFINITION 27 birds/ mammalsHomeothermic TERM 28 ectotherms DEFINITION 28 Everything except birds/mammalsPoikilotherm TERM 29 Homeothermic DEFINITION 29 Constant body temperature (internal)endotherms - birds/mammals TERM 30 Poikilotherm DEFINITION 30 Variable body temperature (internal)Ectotherms