Whats the Big Idea? #1

14. Chordate: This majestic giraffe is a chordate because it is a mammal and all mammals are chordates.

10. Arthropod: This red ant is an arthropod because it is of the insect class and is an invertebrate.

7. Annelid: This worm lying in the river classifies as an annelid.

16. Coelomate: This snake possesses a coelom, a central body cavity, and is therefore a coelomate.

26. Homologous Structures: These two species of birds have homologous wing structures because they derived from the same origin.

13. Byrophyte: This clover-like plant found near the river may be considered a byrophyte because it is non-vascular.

1.  Acoelomate: The organisms that used to occupy these shells are acoelomates because it lacks distinction between body wall and digestive tracts.

2.Adaptation of an animal: This lizard blends in to its surroundings with its camouflage trait.

3. Adaptation of a plant: This plant employs its trait, thorns, to ward off unwanted organisms that might normally try to eat it.

6. Angiosperm: This plant is an angiosperm because it has flowering buds.

22. Genetic Variation: This occurrence of genetic variation is what causes one of these tortoises to have a shell that curves up in the front and one that does not.

31. Mycorrhizal Fungi: This group of river-side plants witth no doubt shares a mutualistic relationship with this type of beneficial, root-dwelling fungus found in most plants.

39. Tetrapod: This tetrapod, named so for its four-legged stature, roams the jungle fearing nothing, ready to slaughter whatever unfortunate creature crosses its dangerous path.

41. Vestigial Structure: This anteater surely has some junk DNA that has become useless at this point in its evolution. Vestigial structures are things that used to serve purposes but have lost their necessity over time.

20. Fungi: This algae is a basic example from the Fungus kingdom

38. Seedless Vascular Plant: This plant is seedless but has vascular tissue.

27. Lichens: A lichen is a mixture of a fungus and some sort of photosynthetic part. This pictures depicts such a case.

12. Bilateral symmetry: This bird displays this quality with two halves of its body symmetrical around a center axis.

37. Radial symmetry: This interesting rock circle, like a miniature stonehenge, that I found displays with its circular shape the property of radial symmetry, that it is symmetrical around an axis down the middle at any angle.

32. Organisms in different phyla: These two organisms are classified under different phyla.