How To Use Vertebrata In A Sentence
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The teleology which supposes that the eye, such as we see it in man, or one of the higher vertebrata, was made with the precise structure it exhibits, for the purpose of enabling the animal which possesses it to see, has undoubtedly received its death-blow.
Juxtaposed Passages on Conditions of Existence
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Most members of the chordate phylum, those in the subphylum Vertebrata, replace the notochord with vertebrae (the backbone) later in development to support the pelvic and pectoral girdles (to which the front and hind limbs are attached) and to protect the spinal cord.
Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb
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Now, as I have already said, these gill-_slits_ are supported internally by the gill-_arches_, or the blood-vessels which convey the blood to be oxygenized in the branchial apparatus (see below, Figs. 51, 52, 53); and the whole arrangement is developed from the anterior part of the intestine -- as is likewise the respiratory mechanism of all the gill-breathing Vertebrata.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
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Then he pulled his wand out of his pocket and, trying to focus on his task, incanted, ‘Reficio Musculis Vertebrata.’
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I do not feel called upon to characterise the accuracy of the drawings of embryos of different classes of the Vertebrata given by Haeckel in his popular works, and reproduced by Romanes and, for all that I know, other popular exponents of the evolution theory.
Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb
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But matters are rather complicated by the presence of an atrial cavity round the pharynx, which is not certainly represented in the vertebrata, and which the student is at first apt to call the body cavity, although it is entirely distinct and different from that space.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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The containing group of jawed vertebrates and jawless fishes is vertebrata.
A New Book
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Finally, with respect to the ‘Vertebrata’, the same law holds good: certain types, such as those of the ganoid and placoid fishes, having persisted from the palaeozoic epoch to the present time without a greater amount of deviation from the normal standard than that which is seen within the limits of the group as it now exists.
Essays
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Geoffroy's principle of the unity of plan and composition to the three great metameric groups, the Annelida, Arthropoda, and Vertebrata.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Fish and fishermen are contained in vertebrata, while jawed fish and fishermen are contained in gnathostomata.
A New Book
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In the higher Vertebrata the branchiae have wholly disappeared -- the slits on the sides of the neck and the loop-like course of the arteries still marking in the embryo their former position.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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Figure 3, Sheet 17, is a generalized diagram of the uro-genital organs in the vertebrata; M.L. is the middle line of the body, G. is the genital organ, Pr. is the pronephros, or fore kidney,
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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Finally, with respect to the ‘Vertebrata’, the same law holds good: certain types, such as those of the ganoid and placoid fishes, having persisted from the palaeozoic epoch to the present time without a greater amount of deviation from the normal standard than that which is seen within the limits of the group as it now exists.
Essays
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Take, for example, the vertebrata; in these, by some mysterious bond of union, the organic globules are seen to arrange themselves into two nearly parallel rows.
An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
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Plourdosteus canadensis (Woodward 1892), un arthrodire du Frasnien inférieur du Canada: Contribution à l'étude morphologique et phylogénétique des Plourdosteidae (Vertebrata, Placodermi) du Dévonien moyen et supérieur.
Miguasha Provincial Park, Canada
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The containing group of jawed vertebrates and jawless fishes is vertebrata.
A New Book
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Mammals are then grouped with the classes of other backboned animals, such as reptiles, into a "subphylum," Vertebrata, which is part of the "phylum" Chordata, containing all animals which have a nerve chord at some time in their life cycle.
Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa
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On the under side of the head, in front of the mouth, is the nasal aperture (olf.), the opening of the nasal sac, which, unlike the corresponding organ of the air-frequenting vertebrata, has no internal narial opening.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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To give the idea of a subphylum, the entire Vertebrata are in the Linnean arrangement a subphylum of the phylum Chordata.
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Most of our readers know that it belongs to that one of two primary animal divisions which is called the vertebrata, and that the distinctive feature which place it in this division is the possession of a spinal column or backbone, really a series of small ring-like bones, the vertebrae (Figure 1 v.b.) strung together, as it were, on the main nerve axis, the spinal cord (Figure 1 s.c.).
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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Finally the embryological facts now observed in the development of the bones of the skull were of great importance,] "as they enable us to understand, on the one hand, the different modifications of the palato-suspensorial apparatus in fishes, and on the other hand the relations of the components of this apparatus to the corresponding parts in other Vertebrata," [fishes, reptiles, and mammals presenting a well-marked series of gradations in respect to this point.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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In this are comprised the six higher stems of the animal kingdom, the annulata and their descendants, the mollusca, echinoderma, articulata, tunicata, and vertebrata.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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The first Vertebrata to appear in the fossil history of the world are fishes; fish spines and placoid scales
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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The containing group would be vertebrata or gnathostomata, or more recently, sarcopterygii.
About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
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These characteristics place man inevitably among the so-called vertebrata; he is certainly not an invertebrate, nor is the basic structure of his body such that a third group, outside the invertebrata and vertebrata, can be made to include only the single type -- man.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope
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Having established this primary principle, Semper has little difficulty in showing that the main organs of the body lie to one another in the same relative positions in Annelida, Arthropoda, and Vertebrata; and this, together with the metameric segmentation common to them all, constitutes his first great argument in favour of their genetic relationship.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The same compound occurs in all true vertebrata, and in the blood-fluid of the worm; in the crayfish a similar substance, haemocyanin, which when oxygenated is blue, and when deoxydized colourless, discharges the same function.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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Thus the kingdom Animalia contained the class Vertebrata, which contained the order Primates, which contained the genus Homo with the species sapiens - humanity.
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He was led to enunciate the following theses: -- [450] (1) that the mouth and anus of Vermes, Mollusca, Arthopoda, and probably Vertebrata, is derived from the elongated mouth of an ancestor resembling the Actinozoa; (2) that somites are derived from a series of archenteric pouches, like those of Actinozoa and Medusæ; (3) that excretory organs (nephridia, segmental organs) are derived from parts of these pouches which in the ancestral form, as in many polyps, were connected by a circular or longitudinal canal, and opened to the exterior by pores.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Besides the teeth there perhaps remain relics of the placoid scales in the anatomy of the higher vertebrata, in the membrane bones.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
