Biology Chapters 32-33
perissodactyl or an artiodactyl
A hoofed mammal is either a what or a what
estimating the distance to an unfamiliar object
A primate that is blind in one eye would have difficulty doing what
adaptive radiation
A rapid growth in the diversity of a group of organisms is called a what
pharyngeal pouches
All chordates have what
kangaroo
An example of an animal with a marsupium is a what
the medulla oblongata
Chordate respiratory structures include all of the following except what
South America
Continent on which you can find a monkey that can hold onto a branch while it uses its hands and feet to grasp something else
early Cenozoic Era
Continental drift caused the separation of different mammal groups from one another during the what era
similar ecological opportunities have existed in widely separated places
Convergent evolution has occurred in mammals because of what
monotremes
Egg-laying mammals
within a particular operating range
Essential life functions are carried out most efficiently when an animal's internal body temperature is what
viviparous development
Feature that is present in most female mammals
crocodiles
Filter feeders include all of the following except what
aquatic chordates use gills, and land vertebrates use lungs
General rule regarding respiratory organs in chordates
hominoids
Group that includes gibbons and humans
a cow
Has a heart with four chambers
method of reproduction
Hominids differ from other primates on the basis of all of the following except what
mammal
If a vertebrate has a circulatory system that carries oxygen-rich blood directly from the heart to the muscles, that vertebrate could be a what
a hamster
If each of the following vertebrates had a body temperature of 37°C and was placed in a cage where the air temperature was 30°C, which vertebrate would have the lowest rate of heat exchange with the air
support the multiregional model
If the DNA of a modern human native to each site were found to be most similar to the DNA of Homo erectus from the same site, that finding would do what
ammonia
In tunicates, some nitrogenous wastes leave the body in the form of what
elephant
In which of the following mammals does an embryo spend most of the time developing inside the mother
distant relative of modern humans
Most paleontologists think that Paranthropus was a what
having a skeleton similar to that of a gorilla
Not a characteristic of Cro-Magnons
a cloaca
Not a characteristic of primates
are oviparous
One group of mammals is reproductively different from the other two groups because its members are what
mammary gland
Organ used by a cow to feed her newborn calf
endotherms that need to cool down
Panting is a behavior that is seen most often in what
chordate
Pikaia was an early what
internal fertilization and viviparous development
Reproduction in most mammals requires this
limb girdles
Sets of bones that support the limbs of vertebrates
vertebrates only
The backbone is a characteristic of what type of animal
probably nocturnal and ate insects
The earliest mammals were what
late Triassic period
The first true mammals appeared during the what period
one atrium and one ventricle
The heart of a fish has what
two separate loops powered by a four-chambered heart
The mammalian circulatory system consists of what
birds
The most efficient vertebrate lungs are found in what
eliminating excess body heat
The most important requirement for a terrestrial vertebrate to control its body heat
cerebrum
The part of a mammal's brain the cerebral cortex, the center of thinking
convergent evolution
The resemblance between sugar gliders and eastern flying squirrels is an example of what
the diaphragm contracts
The volume of the chest cavity increases when what happens
hair and body fat
These help mammals retain body heat
has hair
To determine whether a vertebrate is a bird or a mammal, it would be useful to know if it has what
sweat glands
To release heat from their bodies when necessary, some animals use their what
Homo neanderthalensis and Australopithecus afarensis
Two hominids whose fossils you would not expect to find in rocks of the same age are what and what
oxygen diffuses into the blood, and carbon dioxide diffuses into the air
What happens in the alveoli
digestive
Which body system contains the rumen
elephant
Which of the following mammals is a proboscidean
birds and crocodilians
Which of the following pairs of modern chordate groups contains the most closely related groups
how it controls its body temperature
You could determine to which of the three groups of mammals a species belongs if you knew any of the following except what
