ANIMAL EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY Flashcards
Animal Characteristics
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
Common ancestor
Choanoflagellates
Factors for Cambrian Explosion (535-525 million years ago)
More oxygen
Better predators
HOX Gene evolved
When did animals comes to land?
Invertebrates
Arthropods (450 million years ago)
Vertebrates
Tetrapods
Amphibians and amniotes (365 million years ago)
Metazoan: Parazoa
Sponges
Lacks symmetry, defined tissues and organs
Can disaggregate and aggregate their cells
Metazoan: Eumetazoa
All animals but sponges
Has symmetry
Distinct tissues
Irreversible differentiation for most cells
Parazoa Phylum
Porifera
Phylum: Porifera
No symmetry
No tissues
Mostly marine
Spicules
Choanocytes
Phylum: Porifera Also known as collar cells Flagella create current Traps food particles Ingestion by phagocytosis
Amoebocytes
Phylum: Porifera
Transports nutrients to cells
Produces spicules/spongin
Porifera Food Acquisition
Filter feed
Intracellular
Porifera Reproduction
Sexual or asexual
5 Innovations of Animal Body Plan
Tissues Bilateral symmetry Body cavity Pattern of embryonic development Segmentation
Diploblastic
Two germ layers
- endomorph (inside)
- ectomorph (outside)
Phylums that are diploblastic
Cnidaria
Ctenophora
Phylum: Cnidaria
Symmetry: Radial Tissue layers: Diploblastic Digestion: GV Circulatory system: none Respiratory system: none
Two forms
-polyps and medusa
Only animal nematocysts