Ch 30 Animals 1 Flashcards
• Eukaryotic
• Multicellular
• all are heterotrophic
– ingest food then digest
• locomotion at some time during life cycle • most have a nervous system and muscles
• multicellular diploid stage and a unicellular haploid stage (gametes)
Animals
Have diverse body plans
Animals
– basic structure and functional design of body
Body plan
Biologists have traditionally used structural characters (variations in body symmetry, number of tissue layers, type of body cavity) and early development patterns to
infer relationships among animal phyla.
Sponges are not symmetrical
Asymmetry
– many possible sections can divide the body into equal halves
– shared by cnidarians and ctenophores
• example: jellyfish (cnidarian)
Radial Symmetry
– only one section divides the body into equal halves
– directional movement
– led to cephalization: development of head
Bilateral Symmetry
Separate tissue layers during early development
Germ layers
– gives rise to body covering, nervous system
Outer layer (ectoderm)
– lines the gut and other digestive organs
Inner layer (endoderm)
– gives rise to most other body structures
Middle layer (mesoderm)
Not organized into tissues
Sponges
Cnidarians and ctenophores have only 2 layers
Diploblastic
Other animals have all 3 layers
Triploblastic
First opening from embryonic gut to outside
Blastopore
Means “first the mouth”
– develops into the mouth
Protostomes
means “second the mouth”
– becomes the anus
Deuterostomes
– no body cavity
Acoelomate
– body cavity not completely lined with mesoderm
Pseudocoelomate
– body cavity completely lined with mesoderm
Coelomate, (animal with true coelom)
Fossils and comparisons based on molecular evidence suggest that the first animals inhabited
Shallow marine environments
Evolutionary modification that improves an organism’s chance of survival and reproduction
Adaptation
Members of most major clades of animals still inhabit
Marine environments
– relatively stable temperatures
– buoyancy
– readily available food
Marine Environments Provide