ANIMAL EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY Flashcards

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Animal Characteristics

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Eukaryotic 
Heterotrophic (ingestion)
Multicellular 
Flexible
-no cell walls
-proteins connect cells
Tissues (except sponges)
-muscle and nervous tissues
Sexual reproduction (most animals)
-diploid dominant stage
Pattern of embryonic development 
-cleavage
-gastrulation
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Common ancestor

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Choanoflagellates

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Factors for Cambrian Explosion (535-525 million years ago)

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More oxygen
Better predators
HOX Gene evolved

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When did animals comes to land?

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Invertebrates
Arthropods (450 million years ago)

Vertebrates
Tetrapods
Amphibians and amniotes (365 million years ago)

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Metazoan: Parazoa

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Sponges
Lacks symmetry, defined tissues and organs
Can disaggregate and aggregate their cells

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Metazoan: Eumetazoa

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All animals but sponges
Has symmetry
Distinct tissues
Irreversible differentiation for most cells

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Parazoa Phylum

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Porifera

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Phylum: Porifera

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No symmetry
No tissues
Mostly marine
Spicules

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Choanocytes

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Phylum: Porifera
Also known as collar cells 
Flagella create current
Traps food particles
Ingestion by phagocytosis
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Amoebocytes

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Phylum: Porifera
Transports nutrients to cells
Produces spicules/spongin

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Porifera Food Acquisition

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Filter feed

Intracellular

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Porifera Reproduction

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Sexual or asexual

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5 Innovations of Animal Body Plan

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Tissues
Bilateral symmetry 
Body cavity 
Pattern of embryonic development 
Segmentation
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Diploblastic

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Two germ layers

  • endomorph (inside)
  • ectomorph (outside)
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Phylums that are diploblastic

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Cnidaria

Ctenophora

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Phylum: Cnidaria

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Symmetry: Radial 
Tissue layers: Diploblastic 
Digestion: GV
Circulatory system: none
Respiratory system: none

Two forms
-polyps and medusa
Only animal nematocysts

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Phylum: Ctenophora

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Tissue layers: triploblastic

Colloblast

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3 kinds of symmetry

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Asymmetric
Radial
Bilateral

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Characteristics of Bilateral Symmetry

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Move with directions
Dorsal and central surfaces
Anterior and posterior sides (cephalization)

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3 germ layers

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Ectoderm-surface and nervous system
Mesoderm- skeleton and muscles
Endoderm- organs and intestines

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Coelom

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Body cavity 
Repositions body fluids 
Allows complex tissues/ organs to develop
Allows larger body size 
(Not homologous)
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Acoelomate

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No space between digestive tract and outer body wall

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Pseudocoelomate

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Fluid filled space between digestive tract and outer body wall

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Coelomate

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Fluid filled space between digestive tract and outer body wall lined with mesodermal tissue

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Deuterostome Phyla

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Chordata

Echinodermata

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Protostomes

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Spiral cleavage
Cell excision causes arrested development
Determinate development
Blastopore becomes mouth

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Deuterostome

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Radial cleavage
Cell excision causes separate embryo
Indeterminate development
Blastopore becomes anus

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Open circulatory system

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Blood passes from vessels into sinuses, mixes with body fluids and re-enters the vessels

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Closed circulatory system

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Blood moves continuously through vessels separated from body fluids

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2 kinds of protostomes

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Spiralians- grow by adding mass

Ecdysozoans- increase in size by molting their external cuticles or skeletons

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2 main groups of spiralians

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Lophotrocozoa and platyzoa

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2 successful Ecdysazoan phyla

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Nematoda and Arthropoda

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Phylum: Plathyhelminthes

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Spiralian 
Platyzoa
Acoelomate
Cilliated epithelial cells
Gastrovacular cavity
- cannot feed continuously 
Food acquisition through pharynx 
Excretion through flame cells
Eyes distinguish between light and dark 
Hermaphroditic
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Flukes

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Phylum: Plathyhelminthes
Parasitic worms
Larval infects mollusks
Adults infect vertebrates 
Causes schistosomiasis
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Tapeworms

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Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Parasitic worms
Intestines of vertebrates
3 parts: scolex, unsegmented neck, proglottids

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Phylum: Rotifera

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Spriralian
Platyzoa 
Tiny multicellular 
Unsegmented 
Pseudocoelemate
Movement: cilia 
Some reproduce by parthenogenesis
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Phylum: Nemertea

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Reduced coelem
Mostly marine
Closed circulatory system
Alimentary canal

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Phylum: Bryozoa

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Spiralian 
Lophotrocozoa (lophophore)
Radial cleavage 
Grow in colonies
U shaped alimentary canal (mouth near anus)
Asexual reproduction by budding
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Phylum: Brachiopods

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Spiralian 
Lophotrocozoa (lophophore)
Radial cleavage 
Grow solitarily 
Have 2 calcified shells
Shells are dorsal and central not lateral bivalves
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Phylum: Mollusca

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Spiralian 
Lophotrocozoa (trocophore)
2nd most diverse phylum 
Symmetry: Bilateral 
Circulatory: open
Respiratory: diffusion and lungs
Digestion: complete
May have head not always (clams)
Have radulas for shredding food
3 regions: foot, visceral mass, mantle
Digestive,excretory, and reproductive organs in visceral mass
Shell protects viscera 
Has mantle