Title: Goals and Learning Objectives - chp 33
Course: BIO-182 RTZ > Section: week 9 - Deuterostomes

GOALS:

- Understand the biological features of deuterostomes and distinguish between the major deuterostome groups.
- Describe and understand the evolution of vertebrate success of land.
- Become familiar with the adaptations that allowed this group of organisms to successfully colonize land.
- Trace the pathway of human evolution from earlier primates (a minor goal).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. List and describe the developmental patterns shared by deuterostomes.
2. List and describe the unique structural features of echinoderms.
3. Provide a common name for animals in the five clades of echinoderms.
4. Compare the function of pharyngeal slits in tunicates and vertebrates.
5. List and describe the defining features of the chordate clade.
6. List the defining features that lead to the success of vertebrates.
7. Discuss the evolution of jaws and the importance of jaws
8. Trace the evolutionary history of legs from ray-finned fishes to amphibians.
9. Explain the dependence of amphibians on water. List common names for the major clades of amphibians.
10. Compare the amniotic egg to that of fish and amphibians.
11. Discuss the importance of the amniotic egg to successful colonization of land.
12. List and discuss the features of reptiles that lead to their successful diversification on land.
13. Describe the characteristics of lizards, snakes, turtles and crocodilians
14. Compare the characteristics of birds to those of extinct theropods.
15. Describe the origin of feathers.
16. Describe the adaptations to flight that birds have. Discuss the importance of flight to the birds.
17. List and describe the importance of the four key features of mammals.
18. Discuss the connections between the diversification of mammals, the extinction of the dinosaurs, and the movement of the Earth’s great land masses.
19. Discuss the importance of bipedal locomotion to subsequent evolution of hominids.

KEY TERMS:

Aboral, ambulacrial, amniote egg, amniote, amphibian, anthropoid, bipedal locomotion, bird, chordate, echinoderm, feather, extraembryonic membrane, internal skeleton, lamprey, lancelet, lobe-limbed vertebrate, lungfish, mammal, marsupial, notochord, oral, pentaradial symmetry, primate, prosimian, ray-finned fish, reptile, squamate, swim bladder, tetrapod, tube feet, tunicate, turtle, vertebral column, vertebrate, water vascular system, yolk.