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AP Bio - Chapter 34
Vertebrates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| animals that at some point during their development have a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits/clefts, and a post-anal tail | chordate |
| a common opening for the digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts found in many nonmammalian vertebrates but in few mammals | cloaca |
| a longitudinal, flexible rod made of tightly packed mesodermal cells that runs along the anterior-posterior axis of a chordate in the dorsal part of the body | notochord |
| referring to a type of development in which young hatch from eggs laid outside the mother's body | oviparous |
| referring to a type of development in which young hatch from eggs that are retained in the mother's uterus | ovoviviparous |
| in chordate embryos, one of the grooves that separate a series of pouches along the sides of the pharynx and may develop into a pharyngeal slit | pharyngeal clefts |
| referring to a type of development in which the young are born alive after having been nourished in the uterus by blood from the placenta | viviparous |