Animals Flashcards

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Cnidaria

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Hydra, jellyfish, corals

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Porifera

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Sponges

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Hydrozoa

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Class

Polyp and medusa

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Scyphozoa

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Class

Jellyfish

Medusa only

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Anthozoa

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Class

Corals

Polyps

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Platyhelminthes

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Flatworms, flukes, tapeworms

No circulatory system

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Turbellaria

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Class under Platyhelminthes

Free living,predators, toxin, asexual reproduction

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Trematoda

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Class under Platyhelminthes

Parasite, more than one host

Eg schistosona

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Cestoda

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Class under Platyhelminthes

Parasites

Eg tapeworm

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Mollusca

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Phylum
Clams, snails, squids, octopus
Shell
Mantle
Foot
Radula
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Gastropoda

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Class under mollusca

” stomach feet”
Snails, slugs, sea slugs
Posses torsion

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Bivalvia

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Class under mollusca
"Two shells"
Clams, oysters, mussels
Parasites as babies
Cuspension feeders, no radula
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Cephalopoda

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Class under mollusca
“Head foot”
Octopus, squid, hautilus

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Mammals

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  1. Mammary
  2. Fur or hair (keratin)
  3. Endotherms, mostly homeothermic
  4. 4 chamber heart
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Monotremes

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Class mammalia
Order montremata
   -lay eggs
   -mammary glands but no teats
2 families 
3 species
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Marsupials

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Class mammalia
Order marsupialia
   - marsupium (pouch)
   - brief gestation. Give births to tiny underdeveloped offspring
   -mammary (teats)
Only 270 species
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Eutherian (placental mammals)

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Class mammalia
Order eutheria
5000 species
-all develop within uterus and nourish by a placenta

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Benefits of retaining the embryo inside body

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  1. Protection
  2. Nourishment
  3. Develop at a constant warm temperature
  4. Portable
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Adaptations for flights

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  1. Wings
  2. Elongated keel
  3. Light weight
    Skeleton(bones filled w/ air)
    No teeth
    No bladder
    Females have only one ovary
    Gonads shrinks
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Phylum Chordata

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  1. Dorsal hollow nerve cord (spinal cord)
  2. Pharyngeal gill slits - allows use for breathing, and often for feeding
  3. Post anal tail - usually musculartor locomotion
  4. Notochord - skeleton structure