Arthropods And Echinoderms Flashcards
What new structure developed because of the stiffened exoskeleton?
Joints
What two things stiffen the cuticle?
Protein and chitin
What new process arose because of te stiffened exoskeleton?
Molting
What do joints do
Permit flexibility
What does molting do
Allow for continual growth
What kind of coelom do crustaceans have?
A hemocoel
What replaced the hydrostatic skeleton?
Open sinuses
Are motile cilia present in arthropods?
No, everything is muscle drive
What is arthrpodization
Modification of annelid body plan to current body plan.
What kind of coelom do arthropods have?
Eucoelomate
What kind of symmetry do arthropods have?
Bilateral
Where are arthropods found.
Everywhere.
What is the mode of nutrition for arthropods?
All modes present, but especially detrivores.
What kind of body cavity development do arthropods have?
Protostome
Arthropod modes of nutrition
All
Most conspicuous characteristic of arthropod
Exoskeleton
Tagmata
Fused Somites that form specialized groups
Benefits of arthropods to humans
Food, pollination, medicines, textiles
Harmful arthropod effects
Disease transmission, parasites, competitors
What makes up the exoskeleton/cuticle of arthropods
Chitin and protein
Two layers of arthropod cuticle
Epicuticle and procuticle
Epi cuticle
Outer thin layer
Procuticle
Inner thicker layer
What layers make up procuticle
Exo cuticle (secreted before molt), endocuticle (secreted after molt)
Ecdysis
Process of molting
Tracheal system
Tube system that delivers oxygen to cells of terrestrial arthropods
How does tracheal system limit body size
Once a creature surpasses a certain size the amount of tubes needed is too many.
What do aquatic arthropods use to respirate?
Gills
What do compound eyes allow for?
Multiple images to be seen
4 arthropod subphylum
Trilobita, chelicerata, Crustacea, uniramia
Chelicerata characteristics
6 pairs of appendages (fangs, foot hands, and 4 legs); no mandibles or antennae; suck liquid food from prey
Chelicerata nutritional mode
Carnivore or parasite
Chelicerata Tagmata
Cephalothorax
Cephalothorax
Fused head and abdomen
Chelicerae
Fangs.
Pedipalps
Little feet hands
Spider feeding process
Capture in web, bite, inject, drink.
Order araneae
Spiders
Book lungs
Used by spiders, lungs with extra surface area
Rectal gland
Re absorbs water from waste before excretion.
How many spider eyes
Usually 8 simple
Best and worst spider sense
Best is touch/vibration worst is sight
Spinnerets
Creates the web for spiders
Scleroprotein
Hardens web as it leaves the spinneret in spiders.
Silk thread functions for spiders
Egg sacs, reproduction, feeding
Spider mating
Male wraps sperm into web and tries to put it in genital openings of the female which are on her stomach.
Spider benefits
Control pest population
Spider drawbacks
Venomous
Neurotoxin
Found in black widow. Attacks nervous system.
Hemotoxin
Found in brown recluse. Attacks blood.
Order scorpionida
Scorpions