science voc 16
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- vertebrate
- an animal with a backbone and skull
- vertebrae
- segments of bones
- endotherm
- an animal that maintains a constant body temp.
- cartilage
- is a substance that is in a shark that gives support and protection but isn't rigid like a bone
- ectotherm
- an animal whose body temp. flurtuactes with environments temp.
- fins
- fan like structures that help fish move
- scales
- bony structures that cover skins of bony fish
- lateral line system
- a row or rows of tiny sense organs along each side of the body
- gills
- organs that remove oxygen from the water and co2 from the blood
- denticles
- small, sharp, tooth like structures on the skin of cartilagious fishes
- swim bladder
- a balloonlike organ that is filled with oxygen and other gases; gives bony fish their buoyncy
- lung
- a saclike organ that takes oxygen from the air and delivers it to the blood
- tadpole
- the aquatic larvae of an amphibian
- metamorphosis
- the process in which another animal develops into another one
- therapsid
- a prehistoric reptile ancestor of mammals
- amniotic egg
- an egg containing amniotic fluid to protect the developing embryo
- chartate
- members of the pylum chorata