Chapter 7 and 8 Skeletal System: The Skull and The Axial System

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Across
  1. 3. The use of rapid, projected and sticky tongue to capture prey in most amphibians and lizards
  2. 5. Process of chewing the food before swallowing it
  3. 7. An unpaired medial dermal bone in the teeth of fishes and lower tetrapods
  4. 8. Method of capturing prey, by which the animal rapidly grasps the prey with its jaw
  5. 10. Most ancient part of skull
  6. 14. Supports the brain and is formed of endochondrial bone or cartilage or both
  7. 16. Method of capturing pray, a sudden vacuum to gulp in water carrying the intended food
  8. 17. Bones that expands into large swollen capsule that houses the middle ear ossicle in most eutherians
  9. 19. Dermal plates of the head that were thick and tightly joined into a unit
  10. 20. Movement between the upper jaw and the braincase about joints between them
Down
  1. 1. Swedish palaeontologist that proposed composite theory
  2. 2. Fused cranial components surrounding and encasing the brain
  3. 4. Branchial arches that supports the mouth
  4. 6. Equivalent term of chondrocranium
  5. 9. Have a prominent element called hyoman dibula
  6. 11. includes vertebral column, limbs, girdles and ribsand shells
  7. 12. If a joint passes through dermatocranium behind the eye, the skull exhibits ________.
  8. 13. Functional arch of jaw, the largest and most anterior series of arches
  9. 15. In suction feeding in water it is a flow where excess water entering the mouth must reverse its flow to exit via the mouth due to absence of gill slit
  10. 18. Only two sets of the teeth erupt during the life time of a mammal (milk teeth and permanent teeth)