Biology Vertebrate Vocab
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- Scales
- Thin, overlapping plates that form a protective outer covering on fish, reptiles, and the legs of birds
- Integumentary System
- Largest organ system of an animal, consisting of skin, hair, and nails
- Cartilage
- Rubbery, fibrous, dense connective tissue;harder than ligaments, softer than bone
- Gill
- Respiratory organ in aquatic animals, filters oxygen from water
- Barbels
- Whisker like projections that help find food in murky water
- Nicitating Membrane
- Moves across eyeball for protection
- Carapace and Plastron
- Respective top and bottom parts of a turtle or tortoise's shell
- Yolk
- Yellow nutrient-containing sac in egg that supports growth of embryo
- Monotreme
- Most primitive and only egg-laying mammals
- Marsupial
- Mammal that gives birth to under-developed young and stores them in pouch on abdomen
- Hair
- Filamentous outgrowth of epidermis
- Incubate
- To maintain eggs at optimum conditions for growth
- Altricial and Precocial Young
- Require care and don't require care at birth, respectively
- Medulla Oblongata
- Part of brain stem that connects brain to spinal cord and is responsible for breathing, heart rhythms, and swallowing
- Jacobson's Organ
- Odor detecting organ in the mouths of snakes