Question

What are vertebrates? Write 4 characteristic features of vertebrates.

Answer 1

Vertebrates are animals that possess a vertebral column and/or notochord at any point in their lives.

Characteristic features of vertebrates:

• Vertebrates have true vertebral column and internal skeleton.
• Vertebrates are bilaterally symmetrical.
• Vertebrates are triploblastic, coelomic and segmented.
• Vertebrates have complex differentiation of body tissues and organs.