Ch 30-32 (exam 2) Flashcards
characteristics of animals
- multicellular
- life cycles are patterns of development
- heterotrophs
- use internal processes to break down food
- can move
morphological synapomorphies
many organisms have similar extracellular molecules and types of junctions between cells
body plan
the general structure, arrangement of organ systems, and integrated functioning of its parts
4 key features that can be similar in body plan
- symmetry
- structure of body cavity
- segmentation of the body
- external appendages that move the body
Spherical symmetry
– body parts radiate out from a central point (unicellular protists)
Radial symmetry
one main axis around which body parts are arranged (ctenphores and cnidarians)
Bilateral symmetry
can be divided into mirror images by a single plane
Acoelomate
- lack an inclosed, fluid filled body cavity
- Space between gut and muscular body wall filled with cells called mesenchyme
- Typically move by beating cilia (flatworms)
Pseudocoelomate
- fluid filled space in which many of the internal organs are suspended
- Pseudoceol is enclosed by muscles on its outside, no inner layer of mesoderm
- surrounding organs (roundworms)
Coelomate
– have a body cavity that develops within the mesoderm
- Lined with a layer of muscular tissue called peritoneum
- Coelom is enclosed on both the inside and outside by mesoderm (earthworms)
Segmentation improves
control of movement
- Facilitates specialization of different body regions
- Allows animals to alter shape of body
- Can control movements precisely
Appendages enhance
locomotion:
Obtain food, avoid predators, find mates,
find suitable habitats
animals that move are
motile
animals that don’t move are
sessile
types of feeding strategies
- filter feeding to capture small orgs
- herbivores
- predators
- parasites
- detritivores
filter feeding
- use a strainer
- can rely on water current
- sponges bring in water by beating flagella of choanocytes
Herbivores
- usually eat one plant and don’t kill it
- expend energy digesting and have long guts
Predators
- capture prey
- have sharp sensors or toxins
Parasites
- live in or on something else
- have to overcome host defences
endoparasite
live in hosrt
ectoparasite
live outside hosrt
life cycle
embryonic development, birth, growth to maturity, reproduction, and death
Larva
an immature life cycle that has a form different from that of the adults
Metamorphosis
radical changes in life cycles (butterflies, beetles, flies)
dispersal stage
animals moves so that it does not die where it was born
trade-off
No life cycle can maximize all benefits – the characteristics of an animal in one life cycle may improve its performance in one activity but reduce its performance in another
Parasite life cycles
- evolved to facilitate dispersal and overcome host defenses
- Energy cost to obtain food may be low but cost of overcoming host defenses may be high
- Must disperse to new hosts (if host dies, they die)
Phyla Porifera
sponges
- no symmetry
- spicules
- beat choanocytes to filter feed
- asexual and sexual
Phyla Cnidaria
- hydrozoans, jellyfishes, sea anemones, corals
- have a gastrovascular cavity that functions in digestion, circulation, gas exchange
life cycle of cnidaria
polyp, sessile and reproduce by budding,
medusa is the jellyfish.
- planula will settle on the bottom and develop into a polyp
(See a picture)
medusa structure
- Floats with mouth and feeding tentacles turned downward
- Produce egg and sperm and release them to the water
- Fertilized egg develops into free-swimming larva called planula
- planula settles and turns into a polyp
class Scyphozoa
in cnidaria jellyfish, sea jellies
- medusa dom
- male or female medusa
- polyp will grow, Budd off other polyps and release medusae
class hydrozoa
in cnidaria hydras, hydroids
- polyp dom and colonial
- single large gives rise to a colony of polyps sharing one gastrovascular cavity
- can have nematocysts to catch food, defend colony
class anothozoa
sea anemones, coral
anemones
- sessile
- have nematocysts covered in tentacles
corals
- sessile and colonial
- polyps form a skeleton that deposit calcium carbonate
- endosymbiotic
gastrulation
During early development and hollow ball indents in embryo
blastopore
The opening of the cavity
Protostomes
mouth arises from blastopore
- bilaterally symmetrical
- anterior brain that surrounds the entrance to the digestive tract
- ventral nervous system consisting of paired or fused nerve chords
Deuterostomes
blastopore becomes anus