Animals, Animals, Animals Flashcards

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Bacteria

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Simple unicellular organisms

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Archaea

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Simple unicellular organisms that often live in extreme environments

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Protista

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Unicellular and more complex than bacteria or archaea

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Fungi

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Unicellular or multicellular and absorb food

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Plants

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Multicellular and make their own food

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Animals

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Multicellular and take in their own food

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Nutritional mode

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Heterotrophs
Ingest organic material
Digest within bodies

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Metazoan

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Includes all animals that have a body composed of cells differentiated into tissue and organs usually includes a digestive cavity

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What is the ancestor of animals?

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Choanoflagellate

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Chanoflagellate

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It is not an animal, it’s a microbe that feeds off of bacteria

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11
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Evolution from choanoflagellates happen around…

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700 mya

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12
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First multicellular eukaryotic fossil animals happened around

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630-540 million years ago

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13
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First animals were mostly soft-bodied…

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Multicellular eukaryotes

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14
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The Cambrian explosion was about…

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535-252 mya

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15
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How many phyla evolved from the Cambrian explosion?

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20-35

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After the Cambrian explosion, what was developed?

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Predators and prey
Claws, body armor, sharp spines, etc.

17
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Bilateral symmetry

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Animals have two sides

18
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Complete digestive tract

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Mouth on one end and anus on the other

19
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Evolution of chordates happened…

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590 mya

20
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Vertebrates were developed…

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525 mya

21
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Tetrapods were developed…

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400 mya

22
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Chordate

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Animal in the phylum chordata

23
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What are the four homologous characters of chordate?

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  1. Notochord
  2. Dorsal hollow nerve cord
  3. Pharyngeal slits
  4. Post-anal tail
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Vertebrate

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Chordates with backbones: all animal species within the subphylum vertebrata
Ex. Jawless fishes, Jawed fishes like sharks, rays, ratfish

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Tetrapod

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Four limbed animals evolved from sarcoptyergian fish (lobe-finned fishes)
Includes: amphibians, reptiles, mammals