Animal Evolution and Development Flashcards
What was occurring, in terms of life, 700-540 mya?
- Origin of metazoa
- Edicaran fauna
- O2 levels surpass 10%
- Cambrian explosion
What kind of life dominated earth for majority of its history?
microbial life
Oxygen levels have played a major role in the evolution of life on earth. What has it impacted?
Evolutionary process was greatly accelerated
- more energy from oxidative metabolism
- faster growth and reproduction
- more diversity from sexual reproduction
What evolutionary developments have occurred at which oxygen levels?
(Percentages are a percent of present O2 levels)
- 5% - Eukaryotic Cells
- 5% - Origin of sexuality
- 0% - Metazoans
15% - Exoskeletons
35% - First vertebrates
When was the ediacaran period? What occurred during this period?
635-542 mya
- avalon explosion
- first animal fossils (no exoskeleton - soft body animal)
When was the cambrian period? What occurred during this period?
542-490 mya
- cambrian explosion
- exoskeleton animals - evolved into hard body animals
Transitioning from the Neoproterozoic Era to the Paleozoic era (edicarian period to the cambrian period), many changes occurred, what were they?
542 mya over a period of 100 my
- soft bodies (imprints) to hard bodies (fossils)
- collagen synthesis allowed hard parts
- O2 below 5% to O2 above 5%
- 100’s of animal phyla to 34 animal phyla
What global mass extinction events have occurred?
6 big ones
Paleozoic Era
- 450-440 mya, 375-360 mya
- End of Permian period, 252 mya, the worst 96% of species killed, set back mammals and ended trilobites
Mesozoic Era
- 201 mya
- End of Cretaceous period (K-T boundary) 66 mya, 75% of species, killed dinosaurs
Cenozoic Era
-10,000 ya-present, holocene extinction All 34 animal phyla survived
What were the causes of earlier extinctions?
- Earth icing over
- Plate tectonics causing massive volcanic eruptions
- Meteor impact
- Human impact
How have Marine animals been affected by mass extinction events?
Largely unaffected except the Permian extinction killed off large numbers of marine species
What animals were killed off by the meteor strike 66 mya?
large animals died, smaller animals were able to shield themselves underground
What is the Holocene extinction?
10,000 ya to Present
-Man killing off animals at higher rate than ever
What is the summary of animal life on earth?
- 34 animal phyla
- all evolved from common protist ancestor
- all evolved in Ediacaran/Cambrian (600-500 mya)
- all survived since Cambrian (500 mya)
- no new phyla have evolved since cambrian
- lots of families and many classes went extinct during mass extinction events
What phyla are we studying?
- Porifera
- Cnidaria and Cnetophora
- Platyhelminthes
- Rotifera
- Bryozoa
- Brachiopoda
- Mollusca
- Annelida
- Nematoda
- Arthropoda
- Echinodermata
- Chordata
What is the colonial flagellate hypothesis and what are its steps?
Explanation of the common origin of Metazoa (animals) from protists
- start with unicellular flagellated protist
- multiple flagellates make aggregate
- aggregate form hollow sphere
- specialized reproductive cells form out of some protists
- cells begin to fold to make tissues
What are the two germ layers formed during gastrulation?
Ectoderm
-original germ layer of blastula
Endoderm
-2nd germ layer formed after invagination
What is the mesoderm and how does the mesoderm form?
mesoderm is 3rd germ layer between ectoderm and endoderm in the blastocoel
In Protosomes -cells arise from ventral area and move into blastocoel
In Deuterostomes -central region of archenteron wall pushes outward
What occurs during cleavage, gastrulation, and coelem formation for deuterostomes and protosome
