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Animal Phyla Flashcards

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Porifera

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Asymmetrical

No mouth or anus

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Examples of Porifera

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Sea sponges

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Cnidaria

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Radial body symmetry

Has a mouth but NO ANUS!!

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Examples of Cnidaria

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Jellyfish

Sea anemones

Coral

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Key feature about coral

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Secretes calcium carbonate skeleton

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Platyhelminthes

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Bilateral body symmetry

Has a mouth but NO ANUS!!

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Key features of Platyhelminthes

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Flattened body shape

Can be parasitic

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Key features about Cnidaria

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Can have tentacles with stinging cells

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Key feature about Porifera

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Can have silica or carbonate based spicules

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What are spicules

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spikes

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Annelida

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Bilateral body symmetry

Separate mouth and anus

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KEY features of Annelida

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Body is composed of ringed segments

Move via peristaltic contraction of segments

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perstaltic contracation?

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Think of the peristalsis in our throat. The muscle is moving a wave motion. Ripple kinda. The worm moves like your throat

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Examples of Annelida

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Earthworms and leeches

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Mollusca

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Bilateral body symmetry

Separate mouth and anus

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Key features of Mollusca

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Contain visceral mass, muscular foot, and mantle

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What is visceral mass

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the soft, non-muscular region that contains the body organs (the inside of a snails shell has all its organs)

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What is mantle

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it is the body wall which covers the organs of digestion beneath the shell

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What is muscular foot

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The flat structure used for crawling (moving)

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Examples of Mollusca

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Snails

Slug

Oysters

Octopi

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How are octopi mollusks?

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They have a muscular foot. Its evolved to be now TENTICLES

Has a mantle

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Arthropoda

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Bilateral body symmetry

Separate mouth and anus

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Key features of anthropoda

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Joined body sections and appendages

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Examples of anthropada

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Instects
-Ants
-Spiders

and crustaceans

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Chordata

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Bilateru body symmetry

Serpate mouth and anus

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Key features of Chordata

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Notochord and hollow

Dorsal nerve tube

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What is notochord

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Long nerve cord that runs down our spine

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What is dorsal nerve tube

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Hollow cord that connects with our brain (the long tail attached to the medulla that runs down our spine)

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