Animal Taxa

Question 1

richness and abundance of taxa

Answer 1

Richness - there are many different taxa

Abundance - there are large numbers of non-human organisms

Question 2

Why study non-human taxa?

Answer 2

• study disease
• food source
• medicine 
 - leeches
 - inspiration for technological advancements

Question 3

What kingdoms use the the organelles; chloroplast and mitochondria?

Answer 3

• Protista
• Plantae

only mitochondria
• Fungi
• Animalia

Question 4

Heterotrophic vs autotrophic kingdom

Answer 4

Heterotrophic
• fungi
• animalia

Autotrophic
• protista (or heterotrophic)
• plantae

Question 5

Acronym to remember taxonomy categories?

Answer 5

King penguins can only fly going south

• kingdom
• phylum
• class
• order
• family
• genre
• species

Question 6

define species

Answer 6

a group of organisms that can mate with one another to produce fertile offspring

Question 7

Writing genus and species

Answer 7

Genus should be capitalised and whole thing (both genus and species) underlined/italicised

Homo - genus
sapien - species

Question 8

How do you determine if an organism is closely related?

Answer 8

• organisms of the same genus are closely related

* organisms that share a species name are not closely related (e.g. cuttlefish, fish not related)

Question 9

Phylum porifera

Answer 9

• ‘pore bearing’ so sponge

* no symmetry

Question 10

Phylum Cnidaria

Answer 10

‘stinging thread’ - jellyfish

• class cubozoa
• class hydrozoa

Question 11

Class hydrozoa

Answer 11

• blue bottle jellyfish
• first aid - hot water
• single opening - mouth/anus

Question 12

Class cubozoa

Answer 12

• first aid - vinegar or hot water
• complex lens eyes
• contain toxins

Question 13

Diploblastic vs triploblastic

Answer 13

Diploblastic

• 2 cell layers
• cnidarians
• contain non-living layer, that consist of jelly, instead of mesoderm

Triploblastic

• three layered
• most animals
• has mesoderm

Question 14

2 types of symmetry

Answer 14

• radial symmetry

* bilateral symmetry

Question 15

Radial symmetry

Answer 15

• any plane along the main body axis

- cnidarians

Question 16

Bilateral symmetry

Answer 16

• a single plane through the anterior-posterior midline

- most animals

Question 17

Protostome

Answer 17

• mouth develops first
• blastopore becomes the mouth
• anus forms secondarily

Question 18

Deuterostome

Answer 18

• mouth second

* the anus forms from the blastopore