Question

A number of major evolutionary innovations arose in the fish lineage. Check all of the evolutionary innovations associated with the fishes.
a) Teeth arose from the rough scales of ancestral sharks.
b) Skeletal developments leading to the amphibian movement onto land probably evolved from lobe-finned fishes.
c) Fish fins are ancestral (homologous) structures to the flippers (forelimbs) of turtles.
d) The anterior gill arch formed the basis for the evolution of the vertebrate jaw.
e) The swim bladder ultimately led to the evolution of the amphibian urinary bladder.

Answer 1

Answer:

a) Teeth arose from the rough scales of ancestral sharks.

b) Skeletal developments leading to the amphibian movement onto land probably evolved from lobe-finned fishes.

d) The anterior gill arch formed the basis for the evolution of the vertebrate jaw.

Explanation:

The animals we know today have physical characteristics that are evolutionary adaptations of characteristics of their ancestors, which have undergone a series of evolutions and modifications over the years giving rise to new species that have resulted in the species we know today. This process of evolutions and adaptations also happened with the ancestral species of fish, which allowed that today, they had characteristics such as teeth and jaws. Many of these evolutions occurred even in different species, such as the evolution that allowed the amphibians to have a skeleton, which evolved from the spine fins of fish.