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ESOPHAGUS
(digestive) |
Tube which allows food to travel down by peristalsis.
Present in mammals, amphibians, and chondrithyes. |
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STOMACH
(digestive) |
Stores food, chemical and mechanically digests food.
Present in all three. |
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PYLORIC SPHINCTER
(digestive) |
Seperates stomach from intestines.
Present in all three. |
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SMALL INTESTINE
(digestive) |
Main site of absorption.
Present in all three. |
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LARGE INTESTINES
(digestive) |
Main site of water absorption.
Present in mammals and mud puppy. Known as salt/rectal gland in dogfish for osmoregulation. |
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CAECUM
(digestive) |
Used to digest plant matter.
Known as appendix in mammals and absent in other two. |
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ANUS
(digestive) |
Site for excretion.
Known as cloca in amphibians and chondricthyes. |
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PANCREAS
(digestive) |
Secretes digestive enzymes.
Present in other two. |
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GALL BLADDER
(digestive) |
Stores bile.
Present in other two. |
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LIVER
(digestive) |
Detoxifying organ.
Present in other two. |
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KIDNEY
(urogenital) |
Site of urine production.
Metanephric in mammals, opisthonephric in chondrithyes, mesonephric in necturus, but usually opisthonephric in other amphibians. |
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URETER
(urogenital) |
Delivers urine from kidney to the urinary bladder.
Known as opisthonephric duct in chondricthyes and mesonephric duct in necturus. |
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URINARY BLADDER
(urogenital) |
Stores urine.
Present in necturus. Absent in chondrichthyes. |
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URETHRA
(urogenital) |
Tube by which urine is excreted.
Absent in other two. |
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TESTIS
(urogenital) |
Site of sperm production.
Present in other two, but as small lobes of the liver in chondrichthyes. |
