Sorry for the delay I forgot to add  a  .pdf to the file links last night
 

In addition to office hours Wednesday - Derek will be available Thursday Morning from 11 — 12 for additional final questions.

Some things to think about

1. Which major groups of organisms have diapsid skulls?
2. What is the adaptive significance of having a diapsid skull (i.e. how is a diapsid skull helpful
3. What are the two major diapsid lineages?
4. Describe how a lepidosaur shed its skin (i.e. which layers are lost)
5. Name two major orders of Lepidosaurs.
6. Identify distinguishing characteristics between Tuatara and Squamates
7. What is unique about amphisbaenid skulls among squamates?
8. How does projectile feeding work (i.e. know mouth structures and sequences)
9. What is the advantage of cranial kinesis?
10. What the different forms of cranial kinesis and how do they differ?
11. Distinguish between acrodont, pleurodont, and thecodont dentition
12. Identify different feeding mechanisms in lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and birds
13. Understand different Venom delivery systems in Lepidosaurs.
14. Compare Temperature Dependent Sex determination in turtles, lizards, and crocodiles
15. How do parthenogenesis and gynogenesis contrast?
16. What is caudal autonomy and how does it work?
17. Identify the major groups of animals associated with Lepidosauromorphs and Archosauromorphs
18. Compare and contrast Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs and know where they fiot in the context of vertebrate phylogeny (ps. Which were typically fasteer swimmers and why?.
19. Identify distinguishing classic Archosaur characteristics
20. Identify two groups of thecodonts (ps where do they get their name?).
21. Compare ventilation systems in Typical lizard, crocodillian, frog, and bird.
22. Identify structural modifications in crocodilian skull morphology that differ from ancestral forms
23. Be able to describe differences in heart processes between diving and normally breathing crocodiles.
24. Know three families (idea) of crocodilians
25. Understand how differences in pelvic structure are related to major taxonomic differences in dinosaurs
26. Be able to identify from pictures and name the groups of Ornithischian and Saurischian (i.e. Sauropods and therapods)dinosaurs
27. Be able to identify from charcateristics and name the groups of Ornithischian and Saurischian (i.e. Sauropods and therapods) dinosaurs
28. Know who Dromeosaurs and velociraptor was and what they have to do with bird origins.
29. Understand the K-T Mass extinction and its effects on Sauropsid and Synapsid lineages
30. Describe two potential theories for the origin of birds and supporting evidence
31. Compare flight adaptations in pterosaurs and brids
32. Describe the aspects of bird flight that are associated with generating lift
33. Identify types of drag associated with flight
34. Why do gese fly in a V formation
35. Describe why hummigbirds can hover so easiliy and their energy requirements relative to other birds
36. Describe aspect ratio and its relationship to flight speed and manuverability.
37. What is wing loading
38. Identify the structures of a classic vaned feather from pictures and from charcteritics
39. Distinguish between pennaceous and plumulaceous feathers
40. Identify characteristics of feather types discussed and be able to identify from pictures
41. Identify functions of feather types
42. Identify flight muscles, there location and attachment to limbs
43. Distinguish between function of white meat and red meat in your Thanksgiving turkey
44. Identify four classic wing types and make association to flying style
45. Name four characteristics that can help distinguish a feather from a scale?
46. What are feather tracts and why are they not over the whole body
47. Describe three basic plumage conditions in the first year of birds life
48. What is an annual molt, when does it typically occur and why do it?
49. Describe aspects of bird respiration (i.e. ventilation, gas exchange at lung, and tissue extraction) that make birds so efficient aerobic consumption.
50. Use the black bellied seedcracker as an example of how bill morphology can be associated with diet type, feeding efficiency, assortative mating and potentially speciation
51. Identify three major synapsid radiations
52. Distinguish among Pelycosaurs, therapsids, cynodonts, and mammals (i.e. who came from who, specific ecological associations)
53. How long have mammals been around according to the fossil record?
54. What key characteristic distinguishes a mammal from a cynodont (i.e. hard structures)?
55. Identify 5 trends morphology from pelycosaurs to mammals
56. What are the articular, angular, surangular, and dentary and how do they change from Pelycosaurs to mammals?
57. What are incus, malleus, and stapes in a mammal and in a reptilomorph synapsid?
58. Be able to distnguish between female reproductive tracts of monotremes, marsupials, and eutherian mammals
59. Be able to discuss differences between the placenta of monotremes, marsupials, and eutherian mammals and their differential effects on gestation of their young.
60. What is a marsupium?
61. What is an estrus cycle, what causes it, and how often does it occur?
62. Describe three mechanisms mammals might use to delay birth of their offspring once they have copulated
63. What is embryonic diapause and how does it work in kangaroos?