chordata

IPA: kˈɔrdeɪtʌ

Examples of "chordata" in Sentences

What is the major evolutionary advancement of the phylum chordata?
All are members of the chordata, the deuterostomes with notochords.
The first organ is the tongue which is only present in the phylum Chordata.
The Vertebrata are traditionally ranked as a subphylum of the phylum Chordata.
Many notable fossils will be in Chordata, and many phyla would be nearly empty.
In this picture chordata are still traceable to a unique branch originating at the ground level (0).
Upwards from it we have vertical lines going through eukarya (1), metazoa (2), and finally chordata (3).
As chordata is predated by bilateria, that would indicate that the evolutionary process is ongoing, not 'instantaneous'.
The brain stem is considered to be the oldest part of our brain, oldest in that it is found even in the simplest of animals in our phylum, the chordata.
Hence we may conclude, according to the laws of the theory of descent, that all these chordonia or chordata (tunicates and vertebrates) descend from an ancient common ancestral form, which we may call Chordaea.
The only point that I was trying to make was that during the Cambrian âwe see the origin of the vast majority the basic phyla that are in existence today. â For example we we along with other vertebrates belong to the phyla chordata.