AMPHIOXUS SP

HIERARCHICAL
1) THE MOST ADVANCED ORGANISM
IN THE ANIMALIA KINGDOM.
CLASSIFICATION
2) THE COMMON NAME IS LANCELET DOMAIN SYSTEM : DOMAIN EUKARYA

AMPHIOXUS SP.
3) THE SCIENTIFIC NAME IS KINGDOM : ANIMALIA
CEPHALOCHORDATA. PHYLUM : PHYLUM CHORDATA
4) LANCELET IS A SMALL MARINE CLASS : LEPTOCARDII
ANIMAL FOUND IN THE COASTEL
ORDER : AMPHIOXIFORMES
WATERS OF THE WARMER PARTS OF
ANONYMOUS
THE EARTH.
FAMILY : BRANCHIOSTOMATIDAE
CHARACTERISTICS GENUS : BRANCHIOSTOMA
1) HAS NOTOCHORD SPECIES : AMPHIOXUS
2) HAS PHARYNGEAL SLITS/CLEFT COMMON NAME : LANCELET
3) DORSAL HOLLW NERVE CORD
4) POST ANAL TAIL
5) MYOTOMES
6) CLOSED CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
 CLOSED PHARYNGEAL NOTOCHORD
1) A LONGITUDINAL AND FLEXIBLE
CIRCULATORY SLITS/CLEFT ROD WHICH IS LOCATED BETWEEN
1) CONNECTS THE PHARYNX TO THE THE DIGESTIVE TUBE AND THE NERVE
SYSTEM OUTSIDE OF THE ANIMAL CORD
1) BLOOD AND THE INTERSTITIAL 2) SLITS ALLOWS WATER THAT ENTERS 2) PROVIDES SKELETAL SUPPORT
FLUID DOESNT MIX. THE MOUTH TO EXIT WITHOUT 3) IN VERTEBRATES, THE NOTOCHORD
2) BLOOD NEVER LEAVES THE BLOOD FLOWING THROUGH THEIR ENTIRE IS REPLACED BY VERTEBRAL COLOMN
VESSEL DIGESTIVE SYSTEM THAT FORMES AROUNFD THE NERVE
3) ALSO HELPS IN GASEOUS CORD
EXCHANGE
4) ACTS AS A JAW SUPPORT, HEARING DORSAL HOLLOW
AND OTHER FUNCTIONS DURING
VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION. NERVE CORD
MYOTOMES POST ANAL TAIL 1) A HOLLOW TUBE ABOVE
1) SERIES OF SEGMENTED

BLOCKS OF 1) MUSCULAR TAIL EXTENDING THE NOTOCHORD
MUSCLE BEYOND THE ANUS. 2) DEVELOPS INTO THE
2) ALLOWS MOVEMENT 2) DEVELOPS INTO TAIL BONE IN
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
HUMANS.
3) ALLOWS FREE SWIMMING SUCH AS THE BRAIN AND
4) PRESENT AT EARLY STAGE OF SPINAL CORD
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