Vertebrate Traits

 

Vertebrate Class Adaptations

Traits  Osteichthyes (fish)
Amphibia

 

Reptilia

Aves (birds)

 

Mammalia

 

Circulation
(How many heart chambers do they have & draw them)

 

Respiration
(What organs work as gas exchange organs?)
 

 

 

 

 

Excretion
(What are the excretory structures & what nitrogenous waste is excreted: ammonia, urea, or uric acid?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fertilization
(Where and how does fertilization take place: Internal or External? Courtship behavior?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Reproduction (What kind of eggs do they lay? Are they egg or live birth?) 

 

 

 

 

Integument (covering)

 

 

 

 

Care of Young
(Give numbers of young had and then amount of care given.)

 

 

Limbs and Stance

(Draw from the front view how the fins or limbs come out of the animals and what angle they are to the ground.