Marine Vertebrates Review

Any organism with a notochord and a dorsal nerve cord is classified in subphylum Vertebrata.

• True

• False

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You find more diversity among reef or bottom fish than among open ocean and schooling fish because open ocean and schooling fish live in the same environment.

• True

• False

Orders Crocodilia, Chelonia, and Squamata all have marine species.

• True

• False

Scientists think that _____ evolved during the Cambrian period, allowing vertebrates to become very successful predators.

• Cells

• Jaws

• Photosynthesis

• None of the above

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Organisms in Class Chondrichthyes include _____ and _____

• Sharks, ray-finned fish

• Rays, ray-finned fish

• ray-finned fish, lampreys

• Sharks, rays

Most sharks and rays fertilize their eggs________________.

• Externally

• Internally

• Rarely

• Asexually

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The largest shark is the _____, which eats _____.

• Great white shark, seals

• Megamouth shark, squid

• Basking shark, plankton

• None of the above

Organisms in superorder Batidoidimorpha include

• Rays

• Skates

• Guitarfish

• All of the above

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When you compare a ray’s anatomy to a “typical” fish anatomy you find

• No similarities at all

• The same basic anatomy with adaptations

• That rays are not actually fish

• None of the above.

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In most ray-finned fish, eggs are fertilized

• externally

• internally

• on land

• none of the above