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    Phylum Chordata Transes

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    The phylum Chordata contains animals that share four key characteristics: a notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. Chordates are divided into three subphyla: Cephalochordata, Urochordata, and Vertebrata. Vertebrates make up the largest group and have a cranium and closed circulatory system. They are divided into classes including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

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    The phylum Chordata contains animals that share four key characteristics: a notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. Chordates are divided into three subphyla: Cephalochordata, Urochordata, and Vertebrata. Vertebrates make up the largest group and have a cranium and closed circulatory system. They are divided into classes including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

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    The phylum Chordata contains animals that share four key characteristics: a notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. Chordates are divided into three subphyla: Cephalochordata, Urochordata, and Vertebrata. Vertebrates make up the largest group and have a cranium and closed circulatory system. They are divided into classes including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

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    PHYLUM CHORDATA courting, and signaling when danger is near.

    -In humans, the post-anal tail is vestigial, that


    is, reduced in size and nonfunctional.
    - All have gill slits that lead into the throat or
    pharynx REPRODUCTION
    - have blood enclosed in blood vessels, -They are sexual: meaning that an egg is
    although they may not have blood cells. fertilized by a sperm.
    -have a tail that contains no internal organs -few animals are asexual: without sex
    and extends beyond the backbone and anus. -some fish and reptiles reproduced through
    Parthenogenesis.
    CHARACTERISTICS
    -Most chordates are Dioecious.
    -the phylum Chordata  share four key feature:
    But some chordates are Hermaphroditic
    notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord,
    - Terrestrial species: Internal Fertilization
    pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail
    -Aquatic Species: External Fertilization
    -In some groups, some of these are present only
    -Animals that develop in eggs outside their
    during embryonic development.
    mothers body are called Oviparous.
    NOTOCHORD
    - Flexible, rod-like structures SUBPHYLA OF CHORDATES
    - made of cartilage that runs between an
    animals digestive tube and its nerve chord. SUBPHYLUM CEPHALOCHORDATA
    -In most vertebrates, a skeleton develops - Also called Acrania.
    around the notochord and allows the muscles to - possess a notochord,dorsal hollows, nerve
    attach. chord, pharyngeal slits and a post-anal tail.
    - In humans, the notochord is reduced to the -EXTINCT MEMBER:
    disks of cartilage that we have between our Pikaia- the oldest known cephalochordate.
    vertebrate. -EXTANT MEMBER:
    Lancelets- named for their blade-like shaped.
    DORSAL HOLLOW NERVE -suspension feeders
    -Hollow, tubular structure derived from
    ectoderm
    -Located dorsal to the notochord in chordates.
    -Tube made of fibers SUBPHYLUM UROCHORDATA
    -Also referred to as Tunicate or Sea Squirts.
    PHARYNGEAL GILLS SLITS Tunic- tunicate derives from the cellulose-like
    - openings in the pharynx, that extend to the carbohydrate material
    outside environment. - they only have pharyngeal slits
    - all Chordates have pharyngeal slits -hermaphroditic
    -they function as filters for feeding. -live a sessile existence on the ocean floor and
    are suspension feeders
    POST-ANAL TAIL
    -muscular, posterior elongation of the body, SUBPHYLUM VERBRATA
    extending beyond the anus.
    -contains -Also referred to as Craniate.
    skeletal elements and muscles: provide a -A cranium is a bony, cartilaginous or fibrous
    source of locomotion in aquatic species, such as structure;
    fishes - and sorrounds the brain, jaw and facial bones.
    -in terrestrial vertebrates, helps with balance, -Vertebrata is named for the vertebral column,
    composed of vertebrae.
    -Closed circulatory system.
    -Vertebrates are the largest group of chordates
    -Constitute classes in the subphylum Vertebrata:
    Agnatha, Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes,
    Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves and Mammalia.

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