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