Chapter 19 Vocabulary
Across
- 1. a gas-filled internal sac that helps bony fishes maintain buoyancy (2 words)
- 4. organism that does not produce enough heat to effect body temperature
- 6. mammal whose young completes development in the uterus
- 9. organ that provides nutrients and oxygen to the embryo
- 12. a system of sensory organs along each side of a fish's body that is sensitive to changes in water pressure (2 words)
- 13. a vertebrate with two pairs of limbs
- 15. the human branch of the evolutionary tree
- 16. a chordate animal with a backbone
- 17. cartilaginous fish
- 20. clade of amniotes that possess mammary glands and hair
- 22. member of a clade of tetrapods that have an amniotic egg
- 24. bony fish with fins supported by thin, flexible skeletal rays
Down
- 2. clade of tetrapods that includes frogs, toads
- 3. an arrangement of the fingers where the thumb can touch the fingertips of all four fingers
- 5. an egg-laying mammal
- 7. clade of tetrapods that include snakes, lizards
- 8. the study of human origins and evolution
- 10. placental mammal whose young complete their embryonic development within the uterus
- 11. a chordate with a head
- 14. a protective flap on each side of a fish's head that covers the gills
- 18. a shelled egg in which an embryo develops within a fluid-filled amniotic sac and nourished by yolk (2 words)
- 19. a pouched mammal, such as a kangaroo, opossum, or koala
- 21. fish with strong muscular fins supported by bones
- 23. clade of reptiles that have feathers and adaptations for flight