Bio 170 Exam 4 Flashcards
Name a couple characteristics of animals
Multicellular
Heterotrophic
Life cycle = diplomatic
What is gastrulation?
Blastula folds in and makes a space within a space. Two regions of cells.
What are the earliest animal fossils?
635 mya
Ediacara fauna
Name the two types of body symmetry.
Radial
Bilateral
Define germ tissue.
Relatively unspecified tissues at gastrulation give rise to more specialized tissues
True or false. Animals that are radially symmetric are triploblastic.
False. Radially symmetric animals are all diploblastic.
What are the three body cavities of triploblastic animals?
Coelomate
Pseudocoelomate
Acoelomate
What is coelomate?
Body cavity lined by tissues derived from mesoderm.
What is pseudocoelomate?
Body cavity lined by tissue derived from mesoderm and by tissue derived from endoderm
What is acoelomate?
Lack of body cavity
What is protostomal?
Blastopore develops into mouth
What is deuterostomal?
Blastospore develops into an anus
What are the most primitive metazoans?
Sponges. (Poriferans)
True or False. Sponges lack tissue organization body symmetry and organs
True.
What is unique to sponges?
Choanocytes. Flagellated feeding cell also called a collared cell.