After reading this chapter and analyzing the content, it is assumed that you can:

1. Describe and structure and function of the four membranes associated with the amniotic egg.
   
   
2. Discuss how cladistic taxonomy has revised Reptilia to make it monophyletic.
   
   
3. Explain why nonavian reptiles are more functionally and structurally suited for terrestriality than amphibians.
   
   
4. Relate the principal structural features of turtles that would distinguish them from any other nonavian reptile order.
   
   
5. Explain how nest temperature affect egg development in turtles and crocodiles.
   
   
6. Describe a kinetic skull.
   
   
7. Compare and contrast the special senses of snakes and lizards.
   
   
8. Distinguish between ornithischian and saurischian dinosaurs based on hip anatomy and indicate which lineage gave rise to birds.
   
   
9. Explain how snakes and crocodilians breathe when their mouths are full of food.
   
   
10. Discuss the function of Jacobson's organ of snakes and the "pit" of pit vipers.
    
    
11. Describe the difference in structure or location of the fangs of rattlesnakes, cobras, and African boomslangs.
    
    
12. Compare the methods of reproduction in squamates.
    
    
13. Describe how a snake moves by lateral undulation.
    
    
14. Explain why tuataras are of special interest to biologists.
    
    
15. List the structural and behavioral ways that crocodilians differ from other living nonavian reptiles.