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chordate

NOUN
  1. any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata

How To Use chordate In A Sentence

  • The cephalochordate amphioxus is the closest living invertebrate relative of the vertebrates and therefore the best model organism for understanding the composition of the ancestral chordate genome.
  • Janvier agrees that gills, and perhaps the external branchial skeleton, are primitive to the chordates.
  • The Cambrian Explosion, for example, is the first time we are able to distinguish a chordate from an arthropod.
  • FGFRL1, the gene for the fifth member of the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) family, is found in all vertebrates from fish to man and in the cephalochordate amphioxus. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Hemichordates are distinguished by a tripartite division of the body.
  • The timing of expansion coincides with proposed large-scale duplication event in the chordate lineage.
  • Organisms along the lines of the cephalochordate amphioxus use the gill apparatus for filter feeding.
  • The authors added many new hemichordate and urochordate taxa to the database and found strongly supported relationships among the major deuterostome groups.
  • And yes the point is the soldier is part of the Army, Corps, Division, etc just as a human is an animal, chordate, etc. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • The phylogenic analysis implies that the multiple actinin isoforms found in modern vertebrates arose after the divergence of the vertebrate and urochordate lineages.
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