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.
Name the two phylums of radial symmetric animals.
Cnidaria
Ctenophora
Name the four classes of Cniderians.
Hydrozoa
Scyphozoa
Cubozoa
Anthozoa
How do cnidarias feed?
Using tentacles with cnidocytes
What are the three classes of phylum Platyhelminthes?
Turbellaria
Trematoda
Cestoda (tapeworms)
What causes schistomiasis?
Trematoda
What is parthenogenesis and what phylum does it?
A form of asexual reproduction eggs develop into embryos without fertilization.
Rotifera.
What are the four classes of mollusca?
Polyplacophora
Gastropoda
Bivalvia
Cephalopoda
What is the most diverse major animal group?
Ecdysozoa. Because of anthropods
What is the most abundant type of animal?
Nematods
What causes root knot?
Nematods
Name the unifying features of anthropods
Segmentation
Exoskeleton
Jointed appendages
What are the subphyla of anthropods?
Chelicerata
Myriapoda
Hexapoda
Crustaceans
What are chelicerata distinguished by?
Chelicerae. Fang/pinchers
What phyla do horseshoe crabs belong to?
Chelicerata.
Animals are members of what Supergroup?
Unikonta.