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Land animals had to solve the same problems that plants faced when they moved to land: water conservation, gas exchange, reproduction and dispersal and the fact that water no longer buoyed them up against the pull of gravity The diversification of vertebrates was driven by the evolution of the jaw and limbs. Vertebrates have adapted to life on land as a result of the evolution of tetrapod limbs and an enclosed amniotic egg that allows embryonic development outside a body of water. Mammals and birds, which both descended from reptile-like ancestors, evolved endothermy
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University Of Memphis
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BIOL 1120 (10038)
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University Of Memphis
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BIOL 1120 (10038)
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- August 24, 2023
- Number of pages
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- Professor(s)
- Melvin beck
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- vertebrate characters
- phylogeny
- evolution of jaw
- chondrichthyes
- osteichthyes
- lobe finned fish
- diaphragm
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mammal phylogeny
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mammalian amniotic homology
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