2. Name one positive benefit of having vertebrae for Chordates

It has some body equipment like ours. They have nerve chords, gill slits, segmented muscles, and a notochord; precursor of a backbone similar to the discs in human spines. Name one positive benefit of having vertebrae for Chordates. ... They can eat other animals and then increase their body size.

The rate that would change would be the  searching efficiency/attack rate. there are only two other rates in this model: the  growth rate of prey, and the  predator or consumer mortality rate.the  searching efficiency/attack rate is what indicates how effectively can a predator capture its prey whether in the searching process or actual capturing/attacking process.