16 Flashcards
Traits that unifies animals?
•collagen to make their tissues (in their extracellular matrix)
Collagen does what?
Keeps your cells together
Animals are sister to?
Choanoflagellates
Why aren’t choanoflagellates considered animals?
They dont have collagen
Big evolution of Bilaterian?
The evolution of symmetry
!!!Embryonic development in animals?
Cleavage: Zygote to two cells and divide into a blastula (hollow ball of cells). Gastrulation occurs and an opening occurs in the blastula called blastopore (early gastrula layer) by the inner membrane folding inside and creating two layers, endoderm and ectoderm. It either becomes the mouth or anus. The blastula can either become diploblastic or triloblastic.
Sponges are animals that lack?
True tissues, muscles, neurons, symmetry
What gives sponges structural support?
Mineral spicules
Ctenophores main traits?
Synapomorphy: 8 combs of cilia
•Radial symmetry
•Diploblastic
•Marine predators
•Flow through gut
Cnidaria traits?
•Aquatic, almost all marine
•Polyp and/or Medusa forms
•Radial symmetry
•Diploblastic
•No flow through gut
•Synapomorphy: cnidocytes
Cnidocytes?
Stinging cells
99% of animals are?
Bilateria
!!! All traits of bilaterians?
Taxa of lophotrochozoans? 3•
•Flatworms
•Mollusks
•Annelids
What unifies lophotrochozoans?
DNA evidence
Two big groups in Ecdysozoans?
Nematodes, arthropods
Traits that all organisms share in ecdysozoans?
She’d their exoskeleton
Do nematodes have appendages?
No
Why are Nematodes within ecdysozoans?
They shed their cuticle. They have to stay moist.
Anthropoids have a waxy exoskeleton which can suffocate them. How do they solve that?
They perform gas exchange through spiracles in their exoskeleton.
Diploblastic animals?
two cell layers: endoderm, ectoderm
Triploblastic animals?
Endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm
Which groups are diploblastic?
Ctenophores, cnidarians
Which groups are triploblastic?
Bilaterians