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Q: True or False: All deuterostomes have bilateral symmetry.
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True
Q: Which are the simplest animals that lack tissue?
Answer
Sponges (phylum Porifera)
Q: Roundworms, annelids, and mollusks share what feature(s)?
Answer
Bilateral symmetry and Pseudocoelom
Q: A fluid-filled body cavity that forms completely within the mesoderm of animals is a
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coelom
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Q: When examining a picture of a butterfly, you notice that there is one position in which a
mirror, running from one end of the butterfly to the other, completes the image as a whole
butterfly. You conclude that the butterfly has
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bilateral symmetry.
Q: A vertebrate is an animal that
Answer
has a backbone
Q: Which of the following characteristics do all animals share?
Answer
They are multicellular eukaryotes
Q: The embryonic germ layer of tissue in animals that develops into the skin and nervous
system is the
Answer
ectoderm
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Q: Which of the following is not an animal?
Answer
Mushroom
Q: Sponges belong to the phylum
Answer
Porifera
Q: Cnidarian bodies are one of two forms. A(n) ______ consists of a sessile stalk with
tentacles on one end. A(n) ______ is a free-swimming, bell-shaped, "tentacles-down" body
form with a single opening forming the mouth.
Answer
polyp; medusa
Q: Flukes and tapeworms belong to the phylum
Answer
Platyhelminthes
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Q: A circulatory system that keeps blood confined within vessels after leaving the heart is a(n)
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closed circulatory system
Q: Which of the following is a characteristic of annelids?
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cephalization
Q: Pinworms and hookworms belong to the phylum
Answer
Nematoda
Q: A circulatory system in which the heart pumps fluid to tissues throughout the body cavity
is a(n)
Answer
open circulatory system.
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Q: The most successful phylum with regards to diversity and numbers is
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Arthropods
Q: Sea cucumbers and sea urchins belong to the phylum
Answer
Echinodermata
Q: You are given temperature data showing that a newly discovered animal has the same body
temperature as long as the temperature of the room in which the animal is found remains
constant. When the room temperature varies, the animal shows a similar variation in its
temperature. You are looking at data from a(n)
Answer
ectotherm
Q: A bony or cartilaginous structure that surrounds and protects the brain of chordates is a(n)
Answer
cranium
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Q: What was most key in the transition of fish into amphibians?
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both lungs and limbs
Q: You are helping to prepare images for a textbook when you see a caption saying "first land
vertebrates," so you look for pictures of
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amphibians.
Q: Which of the following is a lobe-finned fish?
Answer
lungfish
Q: Which of the following is an amphibian?
Answer
lizard
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Q: Which Chordates are jawless fish?
Answer
lamprey and hagfish
Q: Characteristics shared by primates include
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All answers are correct
-flat nails instead of claws -grasping hands with opposable thumbs -binocular vision and excellent depth perception -large brain size in comparison to body size
Q: A skeleton has a foramen magnum tucked beneath the skull; this indicates that the skeletal
remains are of a
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Human
Q: The closest living relatives to humans on the evolutionary tree are
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Chimpanzees
Q: Roundworms, annelids, and mollusks share what feature(s)?
Answer
Bilateral and protostome
Q: The most successful phylim with regards to diversity and numbers is
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Arthropods
Q: _________ are a group of mammals that includes humans, apes, monkeys, and lemurs.
Answer
Primates
Q: taste and smell receptors are
Answer
chemoreceptors
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Q: The part of ear that is located in the inner part of the ear is
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Cochlea
Q: Which animal classes do not have lungs?
Answer
Osteichthyes
Q: A body system that controls growth and homeostasis by secreting hormones from glands
Answer
Endocrine system
Q: What does the cerebrum control?
Answer
Controls thoughts and voluntary actions
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Q: When blood glucose is high, the negative feedback mechanism is to produce which
hormone?
Answer
Insulin
Q: What type of stimuli does hearing detect?
Answer
Vibration
A receptor that detects light and darkness is called...
Answer
Photoreceptor
The function of pinna is
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To collect sound
Which are the main divisions of the nervous system?
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Peripheral and Central
This type of tissue lines the internal organs and covers the outside of the body as skin
Answer
Epithelial
Muscles present in the heart are
Answer -Cardiac muscle -Striated muscle
Which neurons carry messages from the brain to the body?
Motor neuron
The process in which an organism's body temperature is regulated externally. Includes your fish,
amphibians, and reptiles.
Ectothermic
Which of the animal classes do not have jaws?
Agnatha
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Platyhelminthes are best described as
Flatworms, triploblastic, acoelomate animals
Mollusks include
snails, slugs, clams, squids, and octopus
Lens
Focuses the light
Homeostasis
Is the maintenance of a relatively stable internal environment and often incorporates a form of
feedback regulation.
When you get cut, your skin cells release hormones that signal platelets to come and stop the
bleeding. Platelets then release more hormones that signal even more platelets to help stop
bleeding. The hormone signals continue until the cut is closed.
Positive Feedback response
This phylum is made of segmented worms
Annelida
Which animal phylum contains: Jellyfish, corals, and anemones?
Cnidaria
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Which animal class has feathers and low density bones?
Birds
What is a nerve cell?
Neuron
Which are endothermic?
Aves and mammals
Characteristics that apply to all mammals -Produce milk for young -Skin is covered in hair or fur
If the environment gets cold, we will often shiver in order to:
Increase body temperature
The connective tissue that connects bones at the joints is
Ligament
A body system that controls and coordinates all body activities through electric
impulses/messages between brain, spinal cord and nerves
Nervous system
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These vertebrates live on land and water. They undergo metamorphosis and must lay their eggs
in water.
Amphibians
What is the central nervous system made of?
Brain and spinal cord
Fat is stored in this tissue
Adipose tissue
regulates the amount of light entering the eye and gives the eye its color
Iris
__________ (Forward-looking eyes) provide depth perception and enable primates to judge
distance and movement of an object.
Binocular vision
This type of tissue includes ligaments, tendons, and cartilage.
Connective tissue
Which animal has a swim bladder?
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Osteichthyes (Bony fish)
_______ are primates that only include humans and species closely related to present-day
humans. Humans are the only species of this type of primates that is surviving today.
Hominins
A scientist has encountered a new organism in the kingdom Animalia with the following
characteristics: jointed legs, exoskeleton, segmented body, and bilateral symmetry. What is it?
Arthropoda
Organisms, like sponges, lacking body tissue and body symmetry belong to which phylum?
Porifera
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are characterized by the lack of tissues?
Porifera
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are characterized by radial symmetry? -Cnidaria -Echinodermata
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are triploblastic? -Platyhelminthes -Mollusca
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Which animal phylum/phyla develops an anus first and a mouth afterwards? -Echinodermata -Chordata
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are protostomes? -Platyhelminthes -Mollusca -Nematoda -Annelida -Arthropoda
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are pseudocoelomates?
Nematoda
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are acoelomates?
Platyhelminthes
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are coelomates?
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Which animal phylum/phyla is/are characterized by segmentation?
_Annelida -Arthropoda -Chordata
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are characterized by endoskeletons? -Echinodermata -Chordata
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are characterized by a water vascular system?
Echinodermata
Which animal phylum/phyla is/are characterized by exoskeletons made of chitin?
Arthropoda
Which animal phylum have stinging cells called cnidocytes?
Cnideria
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Which animal phylum contains a structure called notochord?
Chordata
Jaws first appeared in which group of vertebrates?
Cartilaginous fish
Which group was the first to live a portion of their lives on land?
Amphibians
Which group(s) are classified as tetrapods? -Amphibians -Reptiles -Birds -Mammals
Which Chordata group was first to live their entire lives on land?
Reptiles
Which Chordata group has hair/fur?
Mammals
Which Chordata group(s) are endothermic?
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Which Chordata group is classified as amniotes? -Reptiles -Birds -Mammals
Which Chordata group(s) have a swim bladder and opercula? -Ray-finned Bonny fish -Lobe-finned Bony fish
In which group would you find these animals: tuna, salmon, red snapper, and clownfish?
Ray-finned Bony fish
In which group below would you find the following animals: frogs, toads, salamanders?
Amphibians
In which group below would you find the following animals: turtles, lizards, and snakes?
Reptiles
In which Chordata group would you find kangaroos, echidnas, and lions in?
Mammals
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Class Reptilia
Crocodrylia, Squamata, Chelonia
Phylum Arthropoda -Crustacea -Myriopoda -Chelicerata -Hexapoda
Phylum Mollusca
gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods
Class Amphibia
Anura, Cuadata, Apoda
Which type of photoreceptor provide us with black and white vision?
Rod cells
Which type of sensory receptors are used to sense taste and smell?
Chemoreceptors
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Which type of sensory receptors responds to light?
photoreceptors
Which type of sensory receptors responds to sound, touch, or pressure?
Mechanoreceptors
Which part of the brain plays a key role in maintaining homeostasis?
Hypothalamus
Which part of the brain controls breathing, blood pressure, and heartbeat?
Medulla oblongata
Which part of the brain controls posture, balance, and helps coordinate muscle movements?
Cerebellum
The ______ nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord?
Central
The ______ nervous system carries signals from the brain to voluntary (skeletal) muscles.
Somatic
Which part of a neuron sends (transmits) electrical impulses?
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Axons
Which type of neuron sends a message from the CNS (central nervous system) to a muscle or a
gland?
Motor neuron
What are the chemicals released by "sending" neurons, cross the synapse, and creates an action
potential in the "receiving" neuron?
Neurotransmitters
Which type of nervous tissue cells are involved in sending and receiving electrochemical signals?
Neurons
Some of the functions of _______ are: long-term energy storage, insulation, and cushioning of
internal organs.
Adipose tissue (a type of connective tissue)
Which part of a neuron receives electrical impulses?
Dendrites
Which type of tissue is involved in communication by sending and receiving electrochemical
signals throughout the body?
Nervous tissue
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Which type of connective tissue provides flexible support and is maintained by chondrocytes?
Cartilage
Which type of connective tissue provides support and is produced by osteoblasts and
maintained by osteocytes?
Bone
Which type of connective tissue has a fluid matrix?
Blood
Which type of blood cell promotes clotting to prevent the loss of blood?
Thrombocytes (platelets)
Which type of muscle lacks striations and is involuntary?
Smooth muscle
A single layer of rectangular cells lining the surface of a body cavity would be called
Simple columnar epithelium
Which group of human species is the only extant (living) species of humans?
Homo sapiens
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Which type of muscle is striated and voluntary?
Skeletal muscle
Which of the following groups of human species is considered as one of the three "modern"
human species?
A. Australopithecus
B. Homo Erectus
C. Homo neanderthalensis
C. Homo neanderthalensis
Which group of humans was the earliest/oldest according to the fossil record?
Australopithecus
Hominoids
Apes and humans
Which term below includes only humans and their direct ancestors?
A. Hominins
B. Primates
C. Hominids
A. Hominins
Which animals have binocular vision and grasping fingers and toes?
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Primates
A lemur is an example of
Prosimians
Which group of mammals have a short gestation time, give birth to live young, and allow their
young to finish developing in an external pouch?
Marsupials
Which group of mammals lay eggs?
Monotremes
In conductive deafness, the middle ear fails to move sound to the inner ear. By amplifying
sounds in the auditory canal, the hearing aid moves the ________ more than normal, helping
the person hear more clearly.
Eardrum
In the cochlea, sound is transmitted into nerve signals that reach the brain through
mechanoreceptors
Working with a patient with eye problems, you discover that the patient cannot focus images.
You suspect that there may be a defect in the...
Lens
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The size of the opening for light coming into the eye is regulated by the
Iris
In humans, if you wanted to eliminate the ability to smell dung, which type of receptor should be
changed?
Chemoreceptor
What is detected with the general senses?
a tap on the shoulder
IF asked to point to the place on a model of the brain where essential functions such as
breathing, blood pressure, heart rate, and swallowing are regulated, you would point to the
Medulla oblongata
Which is not controlled by the nervous system?
A. Breathing
B. Diffusion of water into cells
C. Heartbeat
B. Diffusion of water into cells
The rounded part of a neuron containing the nucleus and mitochondria is the
Cell body
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Dopamine is an inhibitory neurotransmitter released into neuromuscular synapses. Patients
with Parkinson disease have decreased dopamine and therefore will exhibit
Hyperactive voluntary movements
The tissue types that acts as a lining of organs, serves in absorption and secretion, and also
conducts gas diffusion is
Epithelial
Organ systems involved in communication
Nervous system and Endocrine system
Organ systems involved in acquiring energy -Digestive system -Circulatory system -Respiratory system
Organ systems involved in protection -Urinary system -Immune and lymphatic systems -Integumentary system
Organ systems involved in support and movement
Skeletal system and muscular system
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Which phylum/phyla is/are characterized by Bilateral symmetry? -Platyhelminthes -Nematoda -Mollusca -Annelida -Arthropoda -Chordata
Animals may have been related to aquatic protist called?
Choanoflagellates
Four characteristics of chordates -a notochord. -a dorsal hollow nerve cord. -pharyngeal slits. -postanal tail.
Evolution - How an organism's DNA changes over time - Works with the basic principle of natural selection
Natural selection
A particular phenotype has some sort of advantage
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Artificial selection - Human modifying species by selecting individuals with desired traits an using as breeding
stock - Ex: Dogs breeds, cats, vegetables, grains
Who wrote On the Origin of Species and when?
Charles Darwin in 1859
Darwin's main idea #1 - Natural selection is differential to success in reproduction - There is an unequal ability of individuals to survive and reproduce
Darwin's main idea #2
Natural selection occurs through an interaction between the environment and the variability
inherent among the individual organisms making up a population
Darwin's main idea #3
The product of natural selection is the adaptation of populations of organisms to their
environment
How long does it take for natural selection to occur?
A lifetime
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How long does it take for evolution to occur?
Generations
Problems with natural selection - Evolution is limited by historical constrains - Adaptations are often compromises - Not all evolution is adaptive; it's random chance - Selection can only edit existing variations
Directional selection - One extreme phenotype is fittest, so natural selection selects that phenotype - Ex: Moth colors
Disruptive selection - Two or more extreme phenotypes are fitter than an intermediate phenotype - Ex: Snail colors
Stabilizing selection - The intermediate phenotype is fitter than either extreme phenotype - Ex: Human birth weight
Heterozygote advantage
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same alleles - Ex: Carrier for sickle cell anemia
Sexual dimorphism - Where there are major differences in the secondary sexual characteristics of males and females - Ex: Male peacocks
INTRAsexual selection - Direct competition among individuals of one sex for mates of the other sex - Male deer battle other male deer for does
INTERsexual selection - Individuals of one sex choose their mates - Female peacocks choose males
Population genetics
There is extensive genetic variation within populations
Population
Individuals of a single species that occupy the same general area
Gene pool
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All alleles of all genes of all individuals in a population at any given time
Allele frequency
How often a particular allele appears in a population
MICROevolution - Generation to generation change in a population's allele frequency (small scale)
Mutation
A change in an organism's DNA
Genetic drift
A change in a population's allele frequencies due to chance
Bottleneck effect - Genetic drift due to a drastic reduction in population size - Usually reduces genetic variability - Ex: Cheetahs are all genetically similar
Founder effect
Genetic drift due to colonization by a limited number of individuals
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Gene flow
Genetic drift due to migration of selected individuals
Types of genetic variations - Mutations - Sexual recombination - Crossing over
MACROevolution
Large scale evolution above the level of species
Palentology
The study of fossil remains
Geologic time scale
Divides the Earth's history into eras defined by major geologic or biological events
Fossil - Preserved remains of plants, animals, and other organisms from the distant past - Allows paleontologists to test predictions about evolution
Compression
Sedimentary rock compresses a specimen into the rock
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Impression
Organism presses against soft sediment leaving an impression in the mud, the animal decays
away, and the surrounding mud hardens to rock
Cast
Organism presses into soft mud, makes an impression, decays away, the impression fills with
mud, which hardens to rock
Petrification
Animal is buried in mud, water containing minerals seeps through, and organic matter is
replaced by minerals
Intact preservation
Oozing sap engulfs an insect and then hardens int amber
Relative dating
Assigns a date to a fossil based on the geologic layer it was found in or based on what other
fossils were around it
Radiometric dating
Uses radioactive isotopes to measure how old something is
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Isotopes
Elements that have different mass numbers and hence different numbers of neutrons
Radioactive isotopes
Unstable isotopes
Half life
The time it takes for half of the radioactive materials to decay
Geology
Study of the Earth and rocks
Pangaea
One continent 200 million years ago
Marsupials - Mammals that embryonic development in a pouch - Ex: Kangaroo and Koala
Homologous structures - Many diverse critters have similar structures - The bone structure of most mammals are similar - Most digestive organs are the same
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Vestigial structures - Structures that serve no purpose in a critter - Ex: Appendix, molar teeth in bats, and hipbones in snakes
Analogous structures - Have similar functions, but different structure and evolutionary history - Ex: Wings in birds and butterflies
Genetics
The study of heredity and DNA
DNA
The hereditary information for every protein your body will ever need
Protein
Cellular building blocks made of different combinations of 20 amino acids
Molecular clock
Uses the rates of DNA mutations to estimate how far apart two species are
Mitochondrial DNA
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How fast is a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA?
Fast
Y chromosome - Inherited only from Dad - Mutates relatively slowly - Has been used to show that humans evolved in Africa and spread from there
How long ago was the Earth formed?
4.5 billion years ago
How was the moon formed?
A collision dislodging a piece of earth
How old are the oldest rocks on Earth's surface?
3.8 billion years
Hadean Period - More than 3.8 billion years ago
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Spontaneous generation
Life comes from nothing
1668 Francesco Redi
Disproved spontaneous generation with rotting meat in a jar covered in cheesecloth
1838 Schleiden and Schwann
Proposed cell theory
Cell theory
All living things are composed of cells
1861 Louis Pasteur
Disproved spontaneous generation of bacteria with a swan necked flask
Origins of life #1
Nonliving synthesis of amino acids and nucleotides
Origins of life #2
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Small molecules get together to make large molecules
Origins of life #3
Self-replicating molecules for inheritance
Origins of life #4
Packaging everything together in a membrane
1920 Oparin and Haldane
Proposed that conditions on primitive earth had conditions that could make organic molecules
from elements
1953 Stanley Miller and Harold Urey - Tested Oparin and Haldane's theory - They created amino acids from elements.
Have monomers shown to spontaneously bond into polymers?
Yes
What was the first genetic material?
RNA
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1980 Thomas Cech
Found that modern cells use ribozymes
Ribozymes - RNA catalysts - RMA pieces can help make other RNA pieces
When did bacteria first appear?
3.5 billion years ago
Stromatolites
Fossilized pillars of photosynthetic bacteria
When did oxygen first become present?
2 .7 billion years ago
Where did oxygen come from?
Bacteria doing photosynthesis
Photosynthesis
Converts carbon dioxide and sunlight into energy and oxygen
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Prokaryotic cells - Small - no nucleus or organelles - Can live on their own - Ex: Bacteria
Eukaryotic cells - Larger and more complex - Have a nucleus and other organelles - Ex: Algae, fungi, and protozoa
When did eukaryotic life begin?
2.1 billion years ago (probably one called algae and protists)
Endosymbionts
Symbiotic cells living inside bigger host cells
When did multicellular eukaryotic cells appear?
1.2 billion years ago (probably multicellular algae, plants, fungi, then animals)
Precambrian period - More than 543 million years ago - Ex: Bacteria, primitive multicellular protists
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Ediacaran organisms
Fossils of some interesting critters that apparently went extinct without leaving any descendants
Cambrian period - 543 million years ago - Ex: Sponges, worms, jellyfish, trilobites
Ordovician period
Algae, invertebrates, and jawless fish
Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction
Thought to be caused by low carbon dioxide levels and extreme cold
Silurian period
First vascular plants, terrestrial invertebrates, fish with jaws
Devonian period
Age of bony fish
Late Devonian extinction
Unclear why so many aquatic species died, might have been lack of oxygen
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Carboniferous period
Age of amphibians
Permian period
Age of reptiles
Permian-Triassic extinction - Worst mass extinction - Also known as the "great dying" - Unknown cause, might be a combination of volcanoes, low ocean oxygen, and lots of hydrogen
sulfide gas
Triassic period
Cone bearing plants, start of dinosaurs
Triassic-Jurassic extinction
Unknown cause
Jurassic period - Dinosaurs rule - Ferns most abundant plant life
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Cretaceous period
Flowering plants appear, end of dinosaurs
Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction
Probably from meteor impact hitting Yucatan, Mexico
Paleogene period
Age of mammals, birds, pollinating insects
Neogene period
Most primate groups
Quaternary period
Modern humans appear
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