10-Animalia Flashcards
Phylum Porifera
Characteristics
Asymmetrical
Sessile
Have collar cells that produce water current
Amebocytes digest food
Phylum Porifera
Classes
Class calcarea - calcareous sponges
Class Hecactinellida- glass sponges
Class Demospongiae- skeleton of siliceous spicules
Phylum Porifera
How do they obtain nutrients
Filter feed
Phylum Porifera
Reproduction
Reproduce asexually by budding
Phylum Cnideria
2 basic body plans
Symmetry
Medusa, and sessile polyp
Radial symmetry
Phylum Cnideria
Feeding
Can use oral arms to put food I mouth and break it down in gastrovascular cavity
Phylum Cnideria
Nervous system
Have none
Phylum Cnideria
Reproduction
Reproduce asexually by budding
Medusa reproduce sexually with gonads
Phylum Platyhelminthes
What type of symmetry
Bilateral with cephalization
Cnidaria
Classes
Class schyphozoa: true jellies
Class Anthozoa: sea anemones
Class Hydrozoa: polyp is dominant, medusa for reproduction
Phylum Ctenophora: comb jellies, bioluminescent
Phylum Platyhelminthes
What can parasitic versions grow?
Scolex with sucker and hooks
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Classes
Class Turbellaria: free living
Class Trematoda: parasitic, flukes have suckers
Class Cestoda: tape worns, have scolex
Phylum Nematoda
Characteristics
Round worms, bilateral symmetry, cephalization, two digestive openings, pseudocoelom
Phylum Nematoda
Functions of cuticle
Protects them, use for diffusion
Phylum Nematoda
Notable worms
Trichinosis: causes the disease Trichinella, humans can get it from raw pork
Filarial Worms: cause various diseases including heart worm and Elephantiatis
Ascaris: is large roundworm of humans
Phylum Annelida
Characteristics
Segmented worms, bilateral symmetry, have cuticle they use for respiration, true coelom, closed circulatory system
Phylum Annelida
Muscles
Longitudinal and circular, use setae