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CVA Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Class Aves | Birds. Feather present. Air sacs present. Endothermic. Diaphragm present. Incubation of eggs and care of young. Capable of flight unless secondarily lost. |
| Subclass Archaeornithes | Archaeopteryx. Polyphyletic group. Sternum without keel. Bones not pneumatic. Skeletal axis of tail long. Three fingers with claws. Teeth present. |
| Subclass Neornithes | Modern Birds. Skeletal axis of tail short. No teeth. Sternum with keel. Bones are pneumatic. No free fingers. |
| Class Mammalia | Mammals. Mammary glands. Red blood cells without nuclei. Hair present. Endothermic. Muscular diaphragm. |
| Subclass Prototheria | Egg-laying mammals. |
| Order Monotremata | Monotremes: spiny anteater, duck-billed platypus. Reptile eggs. Oviparous; placenta absent. Shoulder skeleton reptilian in character. No functional teeth in adults. Cloaca present. |
| Deuterostomes | Anus formed from embryonic blastopore. Bilateral symmetry. Radial cleavage. Complete gut. True cecum formed by endodermal outpocketing. 3 germ layers(endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm). Internal skeleton formed from mesoderm. |
| Phylum Echinodermata | Sea star, sea urchin, sand dollar. Unique water-vascular system. Adults with radial symmetry. |
| Phylum Hemichordata | Tongue worms, acorn worms. Free swimming larvae similar to echinoderm larvae. Adults with proboscis, collar, and trunk. Ciliated, bilateral symmetrical larvae. Large number of pharyngeal gill slits for filter-feeding. |
| Phylum Chordata | Notochord. Dorsal hollow nerve cord. Pharyngeal pouches and gill slits. Segmented body. Blood running posteriorly in a dorsal vessel. Ventral heart. Kidneys from mesoderm. Solid liver. |
| Subphylum Hemichordata |