Module 16 Review Exploring Creation with Biology
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| List common characteristics of reptiles. | Covered with tough, dry scales; Ectothermic; Breathe with lungs throughout their lives; Three-chambered heart with partially divided ventricle; Amniotic eggs with leathery shell, most oviparous, some ovoviviparous
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| Identify parts of egg. | Review figure of egg.
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| What is the function of the yolk? | Contains nutrients, which sustain developing embryo.
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| What is the function of the albumen? | Defense against pathogens
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| What is the function of the amnion? | Creates fluid filled sac in which the embryo floats.
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| What is the function of the allantois? | Sac of blood vessels that allows for respiration and excretion of the embryo
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| What is the function of the chorion? | The chorion is a membrane that surrounds the amnion, yolk and yolk sac, and the allantois.
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| What is the growth-related characteristic common to reptiles and arthropods? | They both must molt (shed skin) because their body covering is not living and can't grow.
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| What are the two most important functions of reptile scales? | Prevent water loss and insulate the reptile's body
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| What are the four orders that contain currently living reptiles? | Rhynchocephalia, Squamata, Crocodilia, Testudines
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| What are six characteristics that set birds apart from other vertebrates? | Endothermic; Heart with four chambers; Toothless bill; Oviparous, laying amniotic egg covered in lime-containing shell; Covered with feathers; Skeleton of porous, lightweight bones (exceptions)
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| What is the difference in the blood circulation between amphibians and birds? | In amphibians, oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor blood is mixed, but in birds they are always separate.
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| Looking at a feather under a microscope, you see that there are no hooked barbules. What kind of feather is it? | Down feather
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| What type of feather is used for flight? | Contour
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| Why does a bird preen? | It is oiling its feathers.
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| What is unique about bird molting? | A bird's feathers molt in pairs, one or a few at a time, whereas arthropods and reptiles tend to molt their whole body covering at once.
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| What did flight engineers learn from birds to make practical flight possible? | Proper structure of a wing; How to make strong, hollow tubes; Reduce wing turbulence
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| What are the five characteristics that set mammals apart from other vertebrates? | Hair covering skin; Internal fertilization and usually viviparous; Nourish young with milk secreted from specialized glands; Four-chambered heart; Endothermic
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| What is the function of underhair? | Insulation
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| Do we see underhair or guard hair when looking at a mammal? | Guard hair
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| Name a nonplacental mammal. | Any from orders Monotremata or Marsupialia: duck-billed platypus, spiny anteater, kangaroo, wallaby, koala, opossum
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| What is the difference between offspring born after a long gestation period and those after a short gestation period? | Offspring with a long gestation period are more developed.
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| To which order does the tuatara belong? | Rhynchocephalia
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| To which order do lizards belong? | Squamata
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| To which order to crocodiles belong? | Crocodilia
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| To which order do tortoises belong? | Testudines
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| To which order do snakes belong? | Squamata
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| To which order do alligators belong? | Crocodilia
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