Ch 33 An Introduction to Invertebrates Flashcards
Three major groups of bilateral animals
1) Deuterostomes
2) Lophotrocozoa
3) Ecdysozoa
Phylum Porifera
Sponges
Sponges have 1)___ ___ ___ but no 2)___ ___
1) Specialized cell types
2) True tissues
What kind of locomotion is exhibited by sponges?
None, they are sessile
What creates water currents that move through the body of the sponge?
Movement occurring in flagella-bearing collar cells
What supports the sponge body?
Spicules
Spicules
Tiny calcium or silicon structures
What structures in sponges function in digestion?
Amoebocytes
Phylum Cnidaria
1) Jellyfish
2) Anenomes
3) Corals
Cnidarians posses what kind of symmetry?
Radial
How do cnidarians feed?
By capturing food particles or prey from the water
What are the two body forms of cnidarians?
1) Polyp (sessile)
2) Medusa (free-swimming)
Many cnidarians have a life cycle that includes both 1)___ and 2)___ stages
1) Polyp
2) Medusa
Cnidarians can possess sense organs used in 1)___ and detection of 2)___
1) Balance
2) Light
Nematocysts
Held under high pressure (140 atm)
Launch a venomous spine at prey
Lophotrocozoans share traits of:
1) Lophohore
2) Trocophore
Lophophore
A horse-shoe shaped feeding structure
Trocophore
Ciliated larva
Phylum Platuhelminthes
Flatworms
Flatworms lack:
1) Circulatory system
2) Respiratory system
3) Skeletal system
4) Coelom
5) Complete gut
What indicates that flatworms may not be a good monophyletic taxon?
No shared derived trait unites all members of this group
Groups based on 1)___ form have been shown to be 2)___
1) Coelom
2) Polyphyletic
What was once the basis for major classification within the protostomes?
Coelom
Reproduction of flatworms:
Usually, sexual via hermaphroditism