animals Flashcards
how does the volution of animals occur?
- first chordate: spinophores
- evolution of land plants
- evolution of tetrapods: fish and frogs
- first amniotes: reptiles, birds mammals
- MAJOR EXTINCTION
- era of the dinosaurs: first mammals appeared
- first group of birds
- MAJOR EXTINCTION
- current day !
all animals are?
multicellular eukaryotes
do animal cells have a cell wall?
no !
how are our bodies held together?
structural protein called collagen that allows for cell connection
what tissues allow animals to move?
nervous and muscle tissue
what are tissues?
groups of cells that have a common structure, function or both
how can you be certain that something is a true tissue?
a true tissue will separate from other tissue by a membranous layer
what are some characteristics of animals?
- chemoheterotrophic: we cannot make our own food
- sexual reproduction: motile haploid sperm fertilizes larger non-motile haploid egg to make zygote
how do animals reproduce?
- all have a haploid gamete, with a small motile sperm cell and a large egg cell
- cleavage: diploid zygote undergoes several miotic cell divisions
- cleavage leads to the formation of the hollow, multicellular blastula
- the blastula undergoes gastrulation to form a gastrula with different layers of embryonic tissue (ectoderm, endoderm and blastopore)
- germ layers give rise to the tissue and organs of the animal embryo
- protostomia: first invagination of the gastrula (blastopore) forms into the mouth
- deuterostomia: second invagination becomes the mouth, and the first opening becomes the anus or closes
what process happens with protostomes?
the new row of cells becomes slightly off center
what kind of cleavage do protostomes undergo?
spiral cleavage
what does it mean when protostomes are determinate?
a new cell is destined to form some part of the later embryo, and the removal of some of these cells results in the embryo missing organs
what process happens with deuterostomes?
each cell division stacks the new cells directly above the previous one
what kind of cleavage do deuterostomes experience?
radial cleavage
what does it mean when deuterostomes are indeterminate?
early embryotic cells are not differentiated, which means that the young embryo could split and develop into two complete embryos (how identical twins are formed)
what is a homeobox?
a highly conserved nucleotide sequence, meaning it has been unchanged over millions of years of evolution
what type of genes are homeobox genes?
regulatory!
what is the function of a homeobox regulatory gene?
it can turn genes on and off
what does the homeobox control?
anterior to posterior developmental sequence of the embryo, which can cause a pattern formation during development
what are homeobox containing genes called?
hox genes
what are the properties of hox genes?
the order of genes along chromosomes are similar among different animals groups, but the number of repetitions can differ
does the number of hox genes vary among different animal phyla?
yes, absent in sponges by many in vertebrates
what are the two types of potential body plans an organism can posses?
radial symmetry or bilateral symmetry
what is radial symmetry?
no front and back, or left or right
radial animals often possess what characteristics?
planktonic or sessile (weakly swimming)
what is bilateral symmetry?
two sided symmetry with a left and right side, dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) side, and an anterior (head) and posterior (tail)
(think of drawing a line right down the middle of your body)
bilateral animals posses what characteristics?
often move more actively and have a central nervous system
what is the process of cephalization?
the development of the head (cns)
in cephalization, what is concentrated in the head?
sensory organs, including sensory structure and receptors