BIO 181 Lecture 12: Biodiversity I

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Characteristics used in classification schemes: primarily, life cycle (gametes, skull type, extraembryonic membranes, excretory product, temperature regulation, but also, body coverings, gait, how the organisms obtain nutrients. Topic 11: portions of ch-28-35 (follow lecture notes mainly: you don"t call them gametophytes in fungus cycle, because it isn"t a very distinct stage. The egg and extraembryonic membranes: fish and amphibians, eggs are laid in water; no special water-filed enclosure required. Non-amniotes: reptiles, birds, and mammals are amniotes; comes in the form of a, shelled egg, uterus. In either marsupial or placental (eutherian) mammals: oviparous: lay eggs, viviparous: does not lay eggs, ovoviviparous: carries eggs inside the body. Temperature regulation: endotherms: have internal heat regulation, ectotherms: rely on the environment to get heat, homeotherms: keep their body temperature constant, heterotherms: have a fluctuating body temperature. Examples: desert animals: oryx, considered slightly heterothermic, although it"s endothermic, has the ability to store body heat, which it uses at night, naked mole rat.

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