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Kavita found a tadpole in a pond. She collected it carefully and put it in an aquarium supposing it as a fish. After some days what did she find and why? |
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Answer» 1. The larva that emerges from the eggs, known as tadpole, have oval bodies and long, vertically flattened tail and are fully aquatic. 2. Tadpole lack eyelids and have cartilaginous skeleton. They take respiration through external gills, later it develops internal gills. It looks like a fish at this stage completely. The vertically flattened tails use for swimming. 3. Tadpole lack true teeth, but the jaws two elongated parallel rows of small structures called keradonts in their upper jaw and three rows of keradonts in the lower jaw as same as the fish has. 4. Tadpole are typically herbivorous, feeding mostly on algae, including diatoms, filtered the water through the gills. 5. The tadpoles may be as short as a week during metamorphosis. |
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