BIO 004 - Module 9 Flashcards
Level of complexity: Tissue-organ grade
Free-living forms and parasitic forms
Tripoblastic
Body is flattened dorsoventally
Phylum PLATYHELMINTHES
Types of epidermis
Free-living and Parasitic
Free-living forms have this
Ciliated cellular epidermis
Adult parasitic forms nonciliated body covering
Syncytial tegument/neodermis
Resistant to the immune system ang digestive juices of the host
Syncytial tegument
Have the ciliated covering similar to free-living form and later shed it once they come in contact with host
Larval parasitic form
Found below the epidermis
Muscle fiber
Do not have body cavity
Acoelomate animals
Fills the space between muscles and organs
Parenchymal cells
True or False
Platyhelminthes they have a mouth, a pharynx, and an intestine
TRUE
True or False
Gut is complete: with anus, undigested food is released through the mouth
FALSE
Phagocytic cells that digest food
Gastrodermis
Flatworms are attracted to food by ________________
Chemotaxis
Controls water balance
Osmoregulation
Excretory and osmoregulatory organs & appear as networks of dead-end tubules that lack internal openings
Protonephridia
Specialized excretory cells located at the
ends of the protonephridia. They have cilia that are arranged to give a “flame” appearance.
Flame cells
Collects fluids and mainly has
osmoregulatory function
Collecting ducts
Fluids and wastes from
collecting ducts are excreted out the body
Excretory/Terminal pores
Most primitive nervous system; resembles nerve net of cnidarians, but with a “brain”
Subepidermal nerve plexus
The “primitive brain”; actually a mass of ganglion cells with neurons divided into sensory, motor, and association types
Cerebral Ganglia