ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
plastron - CORRECT ANSWER - under shell of a turtle
carapace - CORRECT ANSWER - back larger part of the turtle shell
hemipenes - CORRECT ANSWER - pair of copulatory organs in male Squamata
Amniotes - CORRECT ANSWER - Reptilia and Mammals
Testudines - CORRECT ANSWER - turtles and tortises
Lepidosauria - CORRECT ANSWER - Squamata and sphenodon
Squamata - CORRECT ANSWER - lizards and snakes
Sphenodon - CORRECT ANSWER - tuatara
Crocodilia - CORRECT ANSWER - crocodiles and alligators
aves - CORRECT ANSWER - birds
3 Chambered heart - CORRECT ANSWER - amphibians
4 chambered heart - CORRECT ANSWER - amniotes
, amniotic egg - CORRECT ANSWER - egg with a calcareous shell
amnion - CORRECT ANSWER - fluid sac within the egg
regulator - CORRECT ANSWER - internal mechanisms control body temp
conformer - CORRECT ANSWER - weather controls body temp
What determines sex in reptiles? - CORRECT ANSWER - temperature. low=male
high=female
allantois - CORRECT ANSWER - waste disposal from embryo
chorion - CORRECT ANSWER - gas exchange between air and embryo
yolk sac - CORRECT ANSWER - contains yolk, blood vessels
Anapsid Skull - CORRECT ANSWER - no holes, turtles
diapsid skull - CORRECT ANSWER - two windows: lizards, crocodiles, snakes
synapsid skull - CORRECT ANSWER - one window: mammals
Lepidosaurs have what kind a jaw - CORRECT ANSWER - kinetic jaw
caudal autonomy - CORRECT ANSWER - the ability to lose and regenerate a tail