[ZOO 2090] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (41 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Zoology
• Course: ZOO 2090
• Professor: Jinzhong Fu

Document Summary

Get here earlier; no easy seats less focus on straight-up memorization, more focus on understanding intro slides are all on courselink course slides are on courselink as well notes begin: * monophyletic group: the most recent common ancestor and all of its descendants. Deutrostoma [don"t expect you to spell the word, but need to know what it means] Uro = tail chordata = notochord in the [tail] Cephalochordata cephalo = head chordata = notochord in the [tail all the way up to the head] the 5 characteristics of chordates: A notochord at some stage in the animal"s life. Notochord: a fluid-filled elastic rod dorsal to the gut tube and ventral to the nerve cord. A dorsal, hollow nerve cord giving rise to the central nervous system. Nerve cord is a tube formed by invagination at the surface of the ectoderm. A pharynx with pouches or slits in its lateral walls.