pescado (fish) vocab
Across
- 3. the smallest vessel in the blood vessel network
- 5. animal that has stage of lifecycle with notochord, dorsal nerve cord, ect.
- 6. covering made of bone that protects the brain in a vertebrate
- 10. muscle and nervous tissue that lies behind the posterior opening of the digestive system
- 12. the part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates
- 13. a vessel that carries blood away from the heart to the bodys organ
- 14. a hollow part in an organ in particular each of the two main chambers of the heart
- 18. a flexible rod that forms along the dorsal surface in all chordate embryos
- 20. the most part of the simple tubular heart of lower vertebrates and embryos of higher vertebrates
- 23. endoskeleton made of bones or cartilage
- 24. one of the small projections lining the small intestine
Down
- 1. a fish of a largely extinct group having fleshy lobed fins
- 2. the arrangement of water flowing past the gills in the opposite direction to the blood
- 4. pouches small out pockets at the anterior end of the digestive tractthat become gills in fishes and throat
- 7. the continuation of the spinal cord within the skull
- 8. an area of the fish brain that receives an processes information from the fishes visual, auditory and lateral line systems
- 9. a fish of a large group having thin fins strengthened by slender rays
- 11. either member of pair of lobes in the forebrain
- 15. each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles
- 16. a structure that closes or covers an aperture
- 17. the first chamber of the heart in fish, amphybians and reptiles emptying into the right atrium
- 19. the principle and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates
- 21. air bladder receives gases from bloodstream
- 22. a vessel carrying blood to the heart