It is a structure that allows an animal to fly. Wings are a feature of flies, birds and bats but the definition of a wing has to be superficial because it describes non-homologous structures.
Thus, many of the problems that arise with the concept of segmentation, and that we have discussed here, ultimately reflect a problem of terminology.
The names that we apply to biological processes do not necessarily indicate anything beyond being useful appellations. Of course this is the problem of homoplasy and the only route to resolving this is to map any given biological process to the phylogeny.
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Skip to main content. Skip to content Vertebrates. Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Describe the distinguishing characteristics of chordates Identify the derived characters of craniates that sets them apart from other chordates Describe the developmental fate of the notochord in vertebrates. Deuterostome phylogeny. All chordates are deuterostomes possessing a notochord at some stage of their life cycle.
Visual Connection. Chordate features. In chordates, four common features appear at some point during development: a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. The endostyle is embedded in the floor of the pharynx.
Link to Learning. Chordates and the Evolution of Vertebrates Two clades of chordates are invertebrates: Cephalochordata and Urochordata. Cephalochordate anatomy. In the lancelet and other cephalochordates, the notochord extends into the head region.
Adult lancelets retain all five key characteristics of chordates: a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail. Urochordata The 1, species of Urochordata are also known as tunicates Figure.
Urochordate anatomy. These colonial tunicates feed on phytoplankton. Salps are sequential hermaphrodites, with younger female colonies fertilized by older male colonies. Subphylum Vertebrata Craniata A cranium is a bony, cartilaginous, or fibrous structure surrounding the brain, jaw, and facial bones Figure. A craniate skull. The subphylum Craniata or Vertebrata , including this placoderm fish Dunkleosteus sp. A vertebrate skeleton. Vertebrata are characterized by the presence of a backbone, such as the one that runs through the middle of this fish.
All vertebrates are in the Craniata clade and have a cranium. Visual Connection Questions Figure Which of the following statements about common features of chordates is true? The dorsal hollow nerve cord is part of the chordate central nervous system. In vertebrate fishes, the pharyngeal slits become the gills. Humans are not chordates because humans do not have a tail. Vertebrates do not have a notochord at any point in their development; instead, they have a vertebral column.
Figure A. Review Questions Which of the following is not contained in phylum Chordata? Cephalochordata Echinodermata Urochordata Vertebrata. Tunicates are found in shallow ocean waters around the world. Members of Cephalochordata possess a notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail in the adult stage.
Extinct members of this subphylum include Pikaia , which is the oldest known cephalochordate. Pikaia fossils were recovered from the Burgess shales of Canada and dated to the middle of the Cambrian age, making them more than million years old.
Extant members of Cephalochordata are the lancelets, named for their blade-like shape. Lancelets are only a few centimeters long and are usually found buried in sand at the bottom of warm temperate and tropical seas. Like tunicates, they are suspension feeders. With notochord and paired muscle blocks, the lancelet and Pikaia may belong to the chordate group of animals from which the vertebrates have descended. Cephalochrodates : The lancelet, like all cephalochordates, has a head.
Adult lancelets retain the four key features of chordates: a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. Water from the mouth enters the pharyngeal slits, which filter out food particles. The filtered water then collects in the atrium and exits through the atriopore. Both genomic and fossil evidence suggests that vertebrates evolved from craniates, which evolved from invertebrate chordates.
The clade Craniata is a subdivision of Chordata. Members of Craniata posses a cranium, which is a bony, cartilaginous, or fibrous structure surrounding the brain, jaw, and facial bones.
The clade Craniata includes all vertebrates and the hagfishes Myxini , which have a cranium but lack a backbone. Hagfish are the only known living animals that have a skull, but not a vertebral column. Hagfish : Although it lacks a backbone, the hagfish is a member of the Craniata clade because it possesses a bony skull.
Clade Craniata : Craniata, including this fish Dunkleosteus , are characterized by the presence of a cranium, mandible, and other facial bones.
Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata, the clade Craniata, and the phylum Chordata. Vertebrates display the four characteristic features of chordates, but they are named for the vertebral column composed of a series of bony vertebrae joined together as a backbone. In adult vertebrates, the vertebral column replaces the embryonic notochord.
Vertebrates : Vertebrata are characterized by the presence of a backbone, such as the one that runs through the middle of this fish. All vertebrates are in the Craniata clade and have a cranium. In the phylum Chordata, the closest relatives of the vertebrates are the invertebrate chordates.
Based on the molecular analysis of vertebrate and invertebrate genomes genomics , scientists can determine the evolutionary history of different phylogenetic groups. According to these genomic analyses, vertebrates appear to be more closely related to the lancelets cephalochordates than to the tunicates urochordates. This suggests that the cephalochordates first diverged from urochordates, and that vertebrates subsequently diverged from the cephalochordates.
This hypothesis is further supported by the fossil of a million-year-old organism with a brain and eyes like a vertebrate, but without the skull found in a craniate. A comparison of the genomes of a lancelet, tunicate, lamprey, fish, chicken, and human confirmed that two whole-genome duplications occurred in the early history of the Vertebrata subphylum. Both fossil and genomic evidence suggests that vertebrates arose during the Cambrian explosion.
The Cambrian explosion was the relatively brief span of time during the Cambrian period during which many animal groups appeared and rapidly diversified. Most modern animal phyla originated during the Cambrian explosion. The phylum Chordata contains two groups of invertebrate chordates, but the most conspicuous and familiar members of Chordata are the vertebrates.
As chordates, all vertebrates have a similar anatomy and morphology with the same qualifying characteristics: a notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. However, the subphylum Vertebrata is distinguished from the phylum Chordata by the development of the notochord into a bony backbone. Vertebrates include the amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds, as well as the jawless fishes, bony fishes, sharks, and rays.
More than 64, species of vertebrates have been described, but the extant vertebrate species represent only a small portion of all the vertebrates that have existed. Vertebrates range in size from the frog species Paedophryne amauensis as small as 7. Vertebrates comprise about 4 percent of all described animal species; the remainder are invertebrates, which lack backbones.
All vertebrates are built along the basic chordate body plan: a stiff rod running through the length of the animal vertebral column , with a hollow tube of nervous tissue the spinal cord above it and the gastrointestinal tract below. In all vertebrates, there is a mouth at anterior end of the animal and an anus before the posterior end of the body.
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