animal diversity Flashcards
history
- common ancestor 675-875 million years ago
- protists are closest relatives to animals
Palezoic Era
542-251 million years ago
- cambrian explosion
- new predator and prey relationships, rise in oxygen and hox gene complex
Mesozoic Era
251-65.5 million years ago
- coral reefs emerged becoming niches
- first mammals
cenozoic era
65.5-present
followed mass extinction to both terrestrial and marine animals
modern mammals
animals
-tissue from embryonic layers
nutritional mode
- heterotrph and ingest food
- cannot construct organic molecules
- use enzymes to ingest food
cell structure and specialization
multicellular
lack cell wall
nervous tissue
reproduction and development
reproduce sexually- diploid stage dominating life cycle
-fertilization-> cleavage-> bastula
bastula undergoes gastrulation forming embryonic tissue
development
hox gene
body plan
bilateral (more complex)
radial
tissue
ectoderm-innermost
endoderm-outermost
dipoblastic
triploblastic-include mesoderm
body cavity
coelom
protostome and deuterostome
protosome- spiral and determinate
dueterostome-radial and indeterminate