What is "chordates"

Usage examples of "chordates".

In passing from the primitive chordates, such as amphioxus, into the vertebrate subphylum, one passes from an unspecialized nerve cord to one in which the anterior end has developed into the brain.

This single, hollow, dorsal nerve cord is possessed by all chordates (members of the Phylum Chordata), and by chordates only.

The chordates are one of three segmented phyla — segmentation involving a division of the body structure into similar sections, as a train is divided into separate coaches.

It must be that in this reality, our phylum, the chordates, didn't make it, while his phylum, whatever it is, did.

One of the abiding curiosities of the panorama of life shown by the Burgess Shale is that the most successful creatures of that time disappeared without trace, while comparatively minor lines like the chordates survived to prosper.

The chordates, of course, were the ones who later gave rise to the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

They found her, another of the chordates Voozh Preeno had mentioned (more closely resembling a ray than a shark), sitting beside her cart, having a meal on a lawn before the infirmary.

Finding evidence of chordates on Mars was completely unexpected, a remarkable discovery.

A few phyla are generally well known, such as mollusks (the home of clams and snails), arthropods (insects and crustaceans), and chordates (us and all other animals with a backbone or protobackbone), though things then move swiftly in the direction of obscurity.