How are tunicates and lancelets different than most other chordates?

Q: What is the relationship among tunicates, lancelets, and the vertebrate chordates?

A: Chordates are animals that contain backbone or notochord. Animals that lack the notochord or…

Q: Is scoliodon a shark?

A: Elasmobranchii is a subclass of cartilaginous fishes that have five to seven laterals to ventral…

Q: How do tunicates and lancelets get food? Are there other chordates that you are aware of that feed…

A: Introduction:- A lancelet species belonging to the Cephalochordata subphylum. Myomeres, which are…

Q: What are the features that result in tunicate’s being classified as an animal, chordate and…

A: Urochordata are also known as tunicates because outer body of tunicates is covered by tunic which is…

Q: Identify the morphological differences between a tunicate and a lancelet.

A: The Chordates are known to be a large phylum. They include the animals, which possess notochord in…

Q: Describe two features of each of the two groups ofnonvertebrate chordates.

A: Chordates are the phylum of the animal kingdom in which notochord is found. They have two groups one…

Q: What features do all amphibians share?

A: BASIC INFORMATION  AMPHIBIANS  They are one of the class of Amphibia.  They are three different…

Q: You are a chordate, yet you lack most of the mainderived characters of chordates. Explain.

A: A chordate is an animal of the phylum Chordata. During some period of their life cycle, chordates…

Q: How does the foot of a bivalve differ from that of snails or chitons?

A: Limpets or Notoacmea, Collisella are known as small, cone-shaped shells found on the rocks…

Q: What are the three structures shared by every chordate that characterize the group?

A: It is difficult to study all the organisms differently so the organisms are divided into chordates…

Q: Define the Chordate characteristics ?

A: The chordates belong to the Chordata phylum of the animal kingdom. The name Chordata comes from…

Q: Identify the key characteristics of animals, and give an example organism for each group within the…

A: The kingdom Animalia is one of the five kingdoms in which living organisms are classified. It…

Q: What are three shared features of vertebrates (other than those that are shared because they are…

A: BASIC INFORMATION ANIMAL KINGDOM  It is among one of the five kingdom classified by R.H. Whittaker.…

Q: Define the characteristic of a chordate ?

A: Kingdom Animalia contains all animals. It is the largest kingdom of Animalia as compared to other…

Q: How are the 4 chordate synapomorphies evident in a tunicate larva and in an adult tunicate?

A: Although tunicates are classified as chordates, only the larval form possesses all four common…

Q: Which body region of a crayfish is most obviously segmented?

A: Abdomen is the body region of a crayfish that is segmented.

Q: What are four shared derived characters of chordates?

A: Chordates are the animals with a vertebral column called ‘back bone’. The chordate animals are free…

Q: What characteristics make a pig a chordate?

A: Chordate Chordates belong to the phylum Chordata. During some period of the life cycle of chordates,…

Q: Name the two groups of nonvertebrate chordates.

A: Non- vertebrate consist of the following two groups:-

Q: Explain the Evolutionary Trends Among the Chordates ?

A: Chordates are the organism that belongs to the phylum Chordata. These possess notochord during some…

Q: jawless fish What is the function of the notochord?

A: Ostracoderms are extinct fishes of Paleozoic. The first evolutionary character that appeared in…

Q: What are the 4 embryonic characteristics of chordates? Define each characteristic.

A: Chordates belong to the phylum Chordata. Their body is bilaterally symmetrical and metamerically…

Q: What external anatomical features of amphibians are associated with their dual life on land and in…

A: The word amphibian is a Greek word “amphi” and “bio”. “amphi” means dual or both kinds and “bio,”…

Q: What are the main morphological features of arthropods?

A: Higher invertebrates phyla consist of animals taking higher positions in the phylogenetic tree of…

Q: What is/are the major comparison(s) between the tunicates and bony fish?Are tunicates inverterbrate…

A: Tunicates are marine invertebrates that belong to the Tunicata subphylum. They are members of the…

Q: What sarcoptergians or lungfish (if any) are related to amphibians?

A: Ans. In the superclass Tetrapoda ("four limbs"), the vertebrate community that has left the Sea for…

Q: Members of Chondrichthyes differ from members of Osteichthyes by having (a) ________. a. jaw b. bony…

A: Fishes are divided into three classes:- 1) CRANIATES that are jawless fishes. 2) GNATHOSTOMES that…

Q: What character does the term rhizarian indicate about the forams and actinopods?

A: Rhizaria are an ill-defined, species-rich supergroup consists mostly of unicellular eukaryotes.…

Q: What is/ are the major comparison(s) between the tunicates and bony fish? Are tunicates…

A: Tunicates belong to sub phylum urochordata. These are marine animals. They have an outer covering of…

Q: Offer a description of an adult tunicate that would identify it as a chordate, yet distinguish it…

A: Chordates belong to the phylum Chordata.The Chordates in their full life cycle have one of the…

Q: Why are echinoderms considered part of the Deuterostomes, despite having incredibly unique…

A: Echinoderms are marine, spiny invertebrates belonging to the phylum Echinodermata, superphylum…

Q: what are the advantages and disadvantages of carapace and plastron in turtles

A: Turtles belong to the Testudines family of reptiles, which are distinguished by a shell made…

Q: What is the type of digestive system present in beings of the phylum Arthropoda? Are these animals…

A: The phylum Arthropoda is composed of animals with jointed appendages or legs. It is a phylum of…

Q: Do amphibians have directdevelopment?

A: Development process involves the growth of a multicellular organism and also increases the…

Q: Give three division of chordata in tabular form?

A: The Phylum Chordate includes vertebrates, such as fishes, reptiles, birds, amphibians, reptiles,…

Q: How is the skeleton of a sea urchin like the skeleton of a lobster? How is it different?

A: Higher invertebrates phyla consist of animals taking Higher positions in the phylogenetic tree of…

Q: What are the integumentary organs of chordates?

A: The majority of chordates possess backbones.  Chordates have a diverse range of species. Chordata is…

Q: what type of scales do bony fish and Lancets have?

A: Lancet fish, both of two types of broadly dispersed, deepwater marine fish of the class Alepisaurus…

Q: What type of skeletal system do echinoderms have?

A: Echinoderms have the following characteristics- 1. They are radially symmetrical. 2. They are…

Q: What is the morphological characteristic that evolutionarily approximates the beings of the phylum…

A: Annelids are defined as triploblastic, bilaterally symmetrical, metamerically segmented, acoelomate…

Q: There are two types of chordates the invertebrates and the vertebrates. How do invertebrate…

A: The scientific classification of animals begin in the late 18th century. At that time , animals for…

Q: Explain How will you compare and contrast the skeleton of fish

A: The embryos of modern fish and tetrapod look similar . Both modern fish and tetrapod are vertebrates…

Q: What are the characteristic features of the chordates?

A: A phylum is a taxonomic classification that comes after domain and kingdom in the classification…

Q: Identify four derived characters that all chordates haveat some point during their life

A: A  chordate is an animal of the phylum Chordata. Chordates are divided into three subphyla:…

Q: What are the two mains divisions of the chordate phylum?

A: Chordates are characterized by a notochord. They have a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits…