Practice mode Biology

Which group is considered the most primitive and certainly the first of the vertebrates?

Correct answer C. Jawless fishes

Explanation

Jawless fishes (Agnatha), such as ostracoderms in the Cambrian and Ordovician, are the earliest vertebrates in the fossil record; lampreys and hagfish are living members.

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