Echinoderms and Chordates

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What are the 2 Deuterostrome phyla?
Phylum Echinodermata and Phylum Chordata.
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What would be found in phylum echinodermata and how many species?
starfish, sea urchins, brittle stars. 7000 species.
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What is the class from phylum echinodermata that contains starfish?
Class Asteroidea
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What class from phylum echinodermata contains brittle stars?
Class Ophiuroidea.
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What does class Echinoidea from phylum echinodermata contain?
sea urchins/ sand dollars
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What class from phylum echinodermata contains sea lilies/ feather stars?
Class Crinoidea
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Class Holothuroidea from phylum echinodermata contains what?
sea cucumbers
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What class from phylum echinodermata contains sea daisies?
Class Concentricycloidea
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What is a Notochord?
a long, flexible rod that lies between digestive tract and nerve cord in embryo, skeletal support.
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Give 4 characteristics of Phylum Chordata
Notochord, dorsal hollow nerve chord, pharyngeal slits and muscular post-anal tail.
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Name the 3 subphyla of phylum Chordata.
Subphylum Urochordata, subphylum Cephalochordata, subphylum Vertebrata.
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What would be found in subphylum Urochordata
tunicates or 'sea squirts'.
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What would subphylum cephalochordate contain?
lancelets, branchiostoma ('gill mouth').
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What does molecular evidence suggest about cephalochordates?
They are our closest invertebrate relatives.
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What is paedogenesis?
sexual maturity in the larva
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Where may cephalochordates and vertebrates have evolved from?
from the larval form of a urochordate by paedogenesis.
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How many species in subphylum Vertebrata. How many years ago did they first appear in fossil record?
40,000 species. 550 mya.
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