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AMPHIBIANS
Chapters 42
Joining of an egg & sperm outside
External fertilization
the female’s body
____________________
Kind of development in which
offspring are born/hatch looking
like their parents only smaller Direct
____________________
development
Kind of circulatory system in which
blood is contained inside vessels
closed
__________________
Organism that has a notochord,
pharyngeal pouches, a post anal tail,
and a dorsal nerve cord
______________________________
Chordate
vertebrate
Organism with a backbone ____________________
Organism whose blastopore
protostome
becomes its mouth
____________________
Thin membrane in the coelom that____________________
mesentery
connects and holds the internal organs
Together
Male frog holding onto the
female so sperm and eggs
amplexus
are released together _____________________
Maintaining the correct
osmoregulation
balance of water and ____________________
ions in the body
cranium
Covering made of bone that ____________________
protects the brain; also called skull
Nerve cord surrounded by bone
or cartilage; also called a
Spinal cord
_____________________
Vertebral column
Joining of an egg & sperm inside
the female’s body
____________________
Internal fertilization
Kind of development in which
offspring hatch as larva and must
undergo metamorphosis to become
adults
Indirect
____________________
development
Kind of circulatory system in which
open
blood is NOT contained in vessels
__________________
and flows loose inside the coelom
2 Small teeth on the roof of the
frog’s mouth that keep prey
from escaping
Vomerine
teeth
______________________
Opening at back of throat for
gullet
food to enter esophagus ____________________
ileum
Coiled portion of small intestine ____________________
between duodenum and large intestine
Bile storage organ
Lower jaw
Gall bladder
__________________
mandible
______________________________
maxilla
Upper jaw ______________________________
invertebrate
Organism without a backbone ____________________
Organism whose blastopore
deuterostome
becomes its anus
____________________
Eardrum
Tympanic membrane
__________________
Anura
Order of “tail-less” amphibians __________________
including frogs & toads
Small out pockets at the anterior
end of the digestive tract that become
gills in a fish and the throat, ______________________
Pharyngeal pouches
inner ears, and tonsils in humans
Tail that sticks out past the
posterior opening of the digestive
Post anal tail
tract
____________________
Outside body covering in an animal
integument
__________________
This kind of body organ works automatically
without thinking about it ______________
autonomic
The concentration of nervous tissue
and sensory organs in the anterior
end of an animal
cephalization
____________________
In animals the body plan where the
left and right sides are mirror images Bilateral
symmetry
of each other
____________________
This part smoothes the flow of blood
leaving the ventricle
__________________
Conus arteriosus
These small thin walled blood vessels
connect arteries and veins and are the
place where gases, wastes, & nutrients
are exchanged
__________________
capillaries
arteries
Blood vessels that carry blood ________________________
away from the heart
Membrane that covers and protects
Nictitating membrane
a frog’s eye while swimming ______________________
Area in a fish’s brain that receives and
processes info from visual, auditory,
Optic tectum
and lateral line systems
_______________________________
Posterior part of the brain that controls
balance and muscle coordination
________________________
cerebellum
Blood vessels that carry blood back
to the heart
veins
_________________
Vertebral
Nerve cord surrounded by bone or
Cartilage; also called a spinal cord _________________
column
Posterior part of the brain that integrates
Info from the other brain parts and where
Higher brain functions like memory, learning,
cerebrum
Reasoning, and problem solving occur _____________
Collecting chamber that receives blood
returning to the heart from the body
Before it enters the atrium __________________________
Sinus venosus
Part of the brain that controls the
autonomic internal organs __________________________
Medulla oblongata
and relays sensory info from body
The concentration of nervous and
sensory organs in the anterior end
of an animal
_____________________________
cephalization
Small fingerlike extensions inside the
intestine that increase surface area
villi
for greater absorption of nutrients _______________
First section of intestine _______________________
duodenum
nearest stomach
The energy molecule is stored
in the liver ________________________
glycogen
This substance is made by the pancreas
and causes cells to release glucose into
glucagon
the bloodstream.
__________________
(Be careful! It sounds like the answer above.
Don’t get these 2 confused!)
Order of “leg-less” amphibians
APODA
Including caecilians
____________________
Multipurpose exit space before
cloaca
the vent
____________________
Body temperature that is
dependent on their environment
“cold-blooded”
ectothermic
__________________
The changing from a larva into
the adult form
______________________________
metamorphosis
Tubules that carry eggs from
____________________
oviducts
ovary to cloaca & add the jelly coating
Order of amphibians with tails
Urodela
including newts & salamanders ____________________
Exit opening in animals with
vent
a cloaca
__________________
Opening at back of mouth to
glottis
the lungs
____________________
nares
Scientific name for “nostrils” ____________________
olfactory
Sense that deals with smell____________________
Circulation that carries blood
pulmonary
from heart to lungs and back to heart__________________
Urine storage organ
Urinary bladder
_________________________
Circulation that carries blood from heart
systemic
to body organs and back to heart ____________________