Exam 2
For the following questions, match the characteristic or description with the class. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all. A. Amphibia B. Aves C. Chondrichthyes D. Mammalia E. Reptilia includes salamanders, frogs, and toads
A
Which of these are characteristics of all members of the Vertebrata during at least a portion of their development as individuals?
A)pharyngeal slits B)a dorsal hollow nerve cord c)post-anal tail A and B only ***A, B, and C
Structures that are made of keratin include which of the following? I. avian feathers II. reptilian scales III. mammalian hair
All
Which of the following are the only modern animals that may have descended directly from dinosaurs
Birds
Which of the following is formed from a matrix of collagen fibers embedded in a hard mineral substance?
Bone
For the following questions, match the characteristic or description with the class. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all. A. Amphibia B. Aves C. Chondrichthyes D. Mammalia E. Reptilia most members have a cartilaginous endoskeleton
C
Most birds and sharks have a common opening for the excretory system and the digestive tract called the________.
Cloaca
The main function of muscle tissue is ______.
Contraction
Earthworms, grasshoppers, and birds all have a
Crop
For the following questions, match the characteristic or description with the class. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all. A. Amphibia B. Aves C. Chondrichthyes D. Mammalia E. Reptilia three major groups: egg-laying, pouched, and placental
D
For the following questions, match the characteristic or description with the class. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all. A. Amphibia B. Aves C. Chondrichthyes D. Mammalia E. Reptilia includes snakes, turtles, and lizards
E
For the following questions, match the characteristic or description with the class. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all. A. Amphibia B. Aves C. Chondrichthyes D. Mammalia E. Reptilia internal fertilization, amniotic egg, skin that resists drying, evolved in late Carboniferous
E
The sister group to the chordates is the
Echinoderms
If you gently bend your ear, and then let go, the shape of your ear will return because the cartilage of your ear contains_____.
Elastic fibers
You are looking through a microscope at a slide of animal tissue and see a single layer of flat, closely packed cells that cover a surface. This specific tissue is most likely __
Epitheal
After surgical removal of an infected gallbladder, a person must be especially careful to restrict dietary intake of
Fat
What is the single unique characteristic that distinguishes modern birds from other modern animals?
Feathers
The connection between structure and ________ is a basic concept of biology.
Function
Bony fishes (Osteichthyes) originally evolved
In freshwater environments
Complex nutrients are digested and then absorbed into the lymph or bloodstream as
Monomers
The neural crest develops into the
Nerve cord
Which one of the following has a two-chambered heart?
Osteichthyes
The liquid part of the blood that consists of water, salts, and dissolved proteins is known as
Plasma
The cells lining the air sacs in the lungs make up a ___
Simple squamous epithelial
Which of these are amniotes
TURTLES
What is believed to be the most significant result of the evolution of the amniotic egg?
Tetrapods were no longer tied to the water for reproduction.
What do hagfishes and lampreys have in common with the extinct conodonts?
The jawless condition
Which of the following statements about the cells of the mucous membrane lining your air tubes is false?
They are stratified squamous epithelial cells.
The class Osteichthyes is characterized by
a bony endoskeleton, operculum, and swim bladder.
Which of the following items has a shape most like a squamous epithelial cell?
a fried egg
Which of the following is a type of connective tissue?
adipose tissue
Salivary amylase digests
carbohydrates
What is a distinctive feature of the class Chondrichthyes?
cartilaginous endoskeleton
Jaws first occurred in which extant group of fishes?
chondrichthyans
Epithelial tissues
cover both external and internal body surfaces
The bile salts
emulsify fats in the duodenum.
Which of the following characteristics evolved independently in mammals and birds?
endothermy
Because the foods eaten by animals are often composed largely of macromolecules, this requires the animals to have mechanisms for
enzymatic hydrolysis
Which of the following is a major category of animal tissue
epithelium
Which of the following is not a shared characteristic of all chordates?
four-chambered heart
A hiatal hernia that disrupts the functional relationship between the smooth muscle in the esophagus and that in the stomach would be most likely to increase the frequency of
gastric reflux.
Which is not characteristic of all mammals?
giving birth to live young (viviparous)
Unlike eutherians, both monotremes and marsupials _____.
have some embryonic development outside the uterus
What is one characteristic that separates chordates from all other animals
hollow dorsal nerve cord
The cells that secrete acidic fluid in the stomach are
in the lumen of the stomach.
Upon activation by stomach acidity, the secretions of the parietal cells
initiate the digestion of protein in the stomach.
All types of muscle tissue have __
interactions between actin and myosin
Blood is best classified as connective tissue because ___
its cells are separated from each other by an extracellular matrix
Which of the following organs is incorrectly paired with its function?
large intestinebile production
Stratified squamous epithelium is well-suited for
lining body surfaces subject to abrasion.
Which of the following is not a major activity of the stomach?
nutrient absorption
How are primates different from all other mammals?
opposable thumbs in many species
The mammalian trachea and esophagus both connect to the
pharynx
Connective tissues typically have ___
relatively few cells and a large amount of extracellular matrix
The amniote egg first evolved in which of the following groups?
reptiles
Ovoviviparous organisms
retain the fertilized eggs until they hatch.
Food moves along the digestive tract as the result of contractions by ____
smooth muscle
The type of muscle tissue surrounding the intestines and blood vessels is
smooth muscle
In the digestive system, peristalsis is
smooth muscle contractions that move food along the esophagus.
Digestive secretions with a pH of 2 are characteristic of the
stomach
Cardiac muscle cells are both
striated and interconnected by intercalated disks
Which structure of the amniotic egg most closely surrounds the embryo?
the amnion
Connective tissue is different from the other major tissue types in that
the cells are sparsely scattered through a nonliving matrix.
Among mammals, it is generally true that
the epiglottis prevents swallowed food from entering the trachea.
A physiologist is a biologist who studies
the function of body parts.