Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology (11th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133923001
Author: Gerald Audesirk, Teresa Audesirk, Bruce E. Byers
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 25.2, Problem 1CSC
Summary Introduction
To describe:
The features that distinguish coelacanths from other types of vertebrates.
Introduction:
The coelacanths are one of the living fossils that live in deep waters. The “West Indian Ocean coelacanth” is a fish that is more similar to the “lungfishes, reptiles, and mammals” as compared to the “ray-finned fishes”.
Summary Introduction
To describe:
The differences between major groups of vertebrates.
Introduction:
The vertebrates of the chordates include “jawless fishes”, “cartilaginous fishes”, “bony fishes”, “lobe-finned fishes”, “amphibians”, “reptiles”, and “mammals”.
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Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology (11th Edition)
Ch. 25.1 - describe the features that distinguish chordates...Ch. 25.2 - name and describe the chordates that are not...Ch. 25.2 - name and describe the craniates that are not...Ch. 25.2 - describe the key adaptations of vertebrates?Ch. 25.2 - Prob. 1CSCCh. 25.3 - Most sharks avoid humans, but large sharks of some...Ch. 25.3 - With regard to water regulation (maintaining the...Ch. 25.3 - Prob. 2TCCh. 25.3 - Consider the graph shown in Figure E25-2. Imagine...Ch. 25.3 - Prob. 4TC
Ch. 25.3 - describe the key features of lampreys,...Ch. 25.3 - name and describe the main subgroups included...Ch. 25.3 - Prob. 1CSRCh. 25 - The two groups of mammals with the largest number...Ch. 25 - Prob. 2MCCh. 25 - Prob. 3MCCh. 25 - Prob. 4MCCh. 25 - Prob. 5MCCh. 25 - Prob. 1FIBCh. 25 - Prob. 2FIBCh. 25 - Prob. 3FIBCh. 25 - Prob. 4FIBCh. 25 - Prob. 5FIBCh. 25 - Briefly describe each of the following...Ch. 25 - Prob. 2RQCh. 25 - List four distinguishing features of chordates.Ch. 25 - Prob. 4RQCh. 25 - List the adaptations that distinguish reptiles...Ch. 25 - Prob. 6RQCh. 25 - Prob. 7RQCh. 25 - Prob. 1ACCh. 25 - Prob. 2AC
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