Ch 33 Animal Evolution Flashcards
Precambian Period (3)
Hadean (1st oceans), Archean (1st cells), Proterozoic (prokaryotes and eukaryotic activity)
542 mya
Cambrian Explosion=diversity
More multicellular organisms rise
Choanoflagellates
1st animals-closest related to protists
Sponges Characteristics (4) (closely related to Choanoflagellates)
Simple body plan
Identify type of sponge by Spicules
Asymmetrical-no even pieces
Eat on particles in water
Similar Characteristics of all animals (3)
1) Multicellular-no cell walls
2) Heterotrophic-eat other things, not photosynthetic
3) Motile
Edicura Fossils (565-542 mya) (3 characteristics)
small, soft bodies
burrowed or floating
jellyfish, comb jellies, etc
Cambrian Explosion
platform of all diversification of animals
Why did the cambrian explosion occur? (4)
1) Increased oxygen-greater metabolic activity, evolution of the eye
2) Predator/prey-predation
3) Climate/Temp-niche/specialization
4) New genes-mutations allow for new, larger bodies
Niche
set of environmental conditions allow for species to live
5 Extinction Events
ordovician, devonian, permian, triassic, cretaceous
Diploblasty
2 layers-endo/ectoderm
Triploblasty
3 layers-Endo/Meso/Ectoderm
Endoderm
digestive
Ectoderm
Skin
Mesoderm
Organs
Radically Symmetric
two or more planes of symmetry
Bilateral
most animals-one plane of symmetry
2 sets of genes determine bilaterian symmetry
Homeobox and Decapentaplegic
Homeobox Gene
Anterior/Posterior (front to back)
Decapentaplegic Gene
Dorsal/Ventral (up to down axis)
Major characteristic change from plants to animals?
nervous system
two parts of the nervous system
Central Nervous System (head) and Sensory Organs (touch, hear, smell, temperature)
The Coelom “tube within a tube”
Organ movement/nutrient circulation
Movement without limbs (worms)
Protostomes Definition
Insects-bilaterally symmetric