Animal Diversity & Invertebrates Flashcards
What is the suffix that refers to animals?
Zoo
In order for animals to find a mate/food, they must
Move around
If an animal lives in water, its habitat is
Aquatic
If two organisms co-habitate, they are
Symbiotic
If two organisms co-habitate, and one benefits while the other is harmed, the relationship is called
Parasitic
If appendages are arranged around a central axis, this condition is called:
Radial Symmetry
An example of a group of acoelomates is
Platyhelminthes -Flat Worms
An example of a group of pseudoceolomates is
Nematoda (roundworms)
Structures unique to sponges that provide skeletal support are
Spicules
If an animal has two germ layers during embryonic development it is Diploblastic
Jellyfish, coral, hydra
Which of the group of animals exhibits metamerism?
ANNALIDS, Arthropods, econoderms, mollusks, segmented worms
Which Phylum name means “little ring?”
Annelida
What is a stalk-like body plan called?
Polyp
Name an animal that has parapodia
Sand worm
Which animal has setae?
Earth worm
What is the name of a primitive lip?
Prostomium
Which organ stores food?
Crop
Where are typhlosoles found?
Earth Worm Intestine
Name the colonial hydroid that we studied
Obelia
Which animal has epitokes and atokes?
Pollo worm
What animal secretes hirudin?
Leach
The genus name of the large human roundworm is
Ascaris
Elephantiasis is caused by which group of worms?
Fillarial worms
What worm exhibits tissue migration from the vein to the lung to the throat to the stomach?-
Fillarial worms
If the unfertilized eggs result in a male and fertilized eggs result in a female, this is called
Haplodiploid
What is the phylum name of flatworms?-
Playtomythese
What animal has flame cells?
Tape worm
What animal has its mouth in its abdomen?
Planaria
What do ocelli do?
PRIMATIVE eyes that sense light
What are the two groups of flukes?
Monogenia & Digenia
What causes “liver rot?”
Liver fluke. Fasciolaipodica
The part of the tapeworm that attaches the worm to the intestine is called the
Scolex
What is the genus of the non–parasitic flatworm?
Dugessia. Common name: Planaria.
What animal has proglottids?
Tape worms
Animals with a ciliated corona are in which group?
Rotifera
Jointed feet are characteristic of what group?
Arthropods
Why are arthropods so successful?
Exoskeleton, 6 legs, (some) fly, active, energetic
What are the disadvantage(s) of an exoskeleton?
Limited size growth
Which system is dependant on spiracles?
Respiratory
How many legs do insects have?
6
What does it mean for an animal to be oviparous?
Lay eggs
What has book lungs?
Spiders
What is the subphylum of trilobites?
Trilobita
Which animal is a “living fossil?”
Horseshoe Crab
What are examples of arachnids?
Spiders, scorpions, harvestman, tick, mites
What are the genus of venomous spiders?
Gluxosclese (brown recluse) Lactrodectus (Black widow)
What are the “insects of the sea?”-
Crustaceans
Where do the gills of the crayfish attach?
Feet
What is autonomy?-
Regrowing legs from stumps
What are the most abundant group of insects?
Beetles
What is the most abundant group of animals?
Insects
What is the most abundant phylum of animals?
Arthropoda
What is a condition of diapause?
Hibernation or estivation
What would an entomologist study?
Insects
What is the largest Arthropod?
Japanese crab
What is the name of a protein found in an Arthropod exoskeleton?
Chitin
What is the term for fused body segments?
Tagma
What is rotting vegetation eaten by crayfish called?
Detritis
Which of the following have “spiny skin?”
Echinoderms
What is the unique feature of echinoderms?
Water vascular system
What protects echinoderms?
Pedicellariae
What allows water to enter the starfish?
Madreporite
What is the pyloric cecum?
Liver or digestive gland
What do sea stars eat?
Mollusks
What is the larval stage of the starfish called?
Bipinnaria
Which animals have a “test?”-
Anything with a shell. Sea urchin, mollusks, etc.
What has a radula?
Mollusks
Which animals are pentaradial?
(5 rays) sea stars
What is the name of the “mother of pearl layer?”
Nacre
What secretes the valve of a mollusk?
Mantle
Which shells are used for currency in some Indian Ocean islands?
Tusk Shell. Dentalium.
What is the term for “bearing no shell?”
Aplacaphora
What is the term for primitive lungs?
Pulmonates
What is the term for “stomach feet?”
Gastropod Ex: Snail, conch, slug
Which animals have “head feet”
Cephla pod Ex: Squid, octopus
What has “jet” propulsion and an ink gland?
Squid, octopus, cuddle fish
Which animals have “hatchet feet?”
Pelecypoda Ex: oyster, clam, muscle
Which animal reproduces by budding and moves by somersaulting?
Hydra
What are examples of bivalves?
Muscle, clam, scallop, oysters, abalony
Which animals have “cup feet?”
Skyphopoda (tusk shells)
What is the genus of a jellyfish?
Aurelia
What is the larval form of the clam?
Glochidia
What is unique to Cniderians?
Nemadosists (stinging cells)
The name of the canal that connects the madreporite to the ring canal is the:
Stone Canal
Which invertebrates have an eye similar to vertebrates?-
Squid and octopus
What is the largest invertebrate?
Squid
What animal has a pen?
Squid
Which bivalves have strong adductor muscles?
Scallop
“To dry out”-
Desiccate
To shed the exoskeleton in order to grow
Molt. Ecdysis.
Name for chemical signals
Pheromones
Name for body segments
Somites
“Condition of changing form”
Metamorphosis
Organ of the crayfish that has “teeth.”
Stomach
Protein made by spiders
Sclero Protein (silk)
Found in crayfish, used as a “rudder.”
Telson
Produce sperm first and then eggs
Protandrous
Covering made of protein
Chitin. Exoskeleton