Chordata
Chordates are animals who posses:
- a notochord - a hollow dorsal verve cord - pharyngeal slits - an endostyle - a post-anal tail for at least some part of their life Members of the phylum Chordata are: - bilaterally symmetric - deuterostome - coelomates *vertebrate chordates display segmentation |
The name is attributed to William Bateson (8 August 1861- 8 February 1926), who was the first person to use genetics to study heredity.
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