Chapter 12: Sponges and Placozoans Flashcards
Metazoans are?
multicellular animals
Multicellularity avoids what issue?
surface-mass problems
Choanflagellates? Characteristics?
- choanocyte?
- flagellum does?
- microvilli collect?
- sessile or free moving?
- they resemble ?
- ancestral to ?
-solitary or colonial aquatic
- cell type, which has a flagellum surrounded by collar of microvilli
I> beating of flagellum draws water into collar …collects mostly bacteria
-sessile mostly
I> one species attaches to floating diatom colonies
-resemble sponge feeding cells
-are sponge choancytes ancestral to choanoflagellates
Phylum Porifera? Features?
- describe body?
- choanocytes funct?
- body is a ?
- how many species ?
- habitat ?
- Sessile sponges food?
- sac like bodies perforated by many pores
- use choanocytes to move water
- aquatic filter = body
- ~15,000 species
- most are marine…some live in brackish water
- sessile sponges are filter feeders
Embryos in Phylum Porifera are??
free swimming but adults are always attached.
Phylum porifera symmetry ?
some appear radially sym but most are just irregular
Forms of Porifera? (4)
Encrusting, finger, variable and tube sponges.
Growth and the environment with Phylum Porifera?
- Growth depends on characteristics of the environment
- many animals live as commensals or parasites in or on sponges.
Predators of Porifera?
very few.
they have an elaborate skeletal structure and often have a noxious odour.
Skeletal of Phylum Porifera??
can be fibrous or rigid…
Rigid skeleton consists of ?
calcareous or siliceous spicules!
Fibrous portion of skeletal structure in Porifera?
- found where?
- micro-algae significance ..spicules?
- collagen protein fibrils in intercellular matrix….several types of one form of collage, spongin exists.
- harbour micro-algae and cyanobacteria on the body surface and deep inside the body……this presence of photosynthetic organisms means spicules can transmit light into the body.
What are the three classes of Porifera ?
-Calcarea, Hexactinellida and Demospongiae.
Spicules common to the three classes? Calcarea, Hexactinellida, and Demospogiae !
- calcium carbonate spicules with one, three or four rays.
- glass sponges with six rayed siliceous spicules
- siliceous spicules around an axial filament, spongin fibres or both.
Pinacoderm?
outer layer of cells
Dermal Ostia?
small incurrent pores on the outer layer of cells which water enters canals through.
Once water enters via the dermal ostia it goes by __________ which trap and _________ food.
choanocytes, phagocytize
Choanocytes line some canals doing what:?(2)
keeping the current flowing via flagella
trap and phagocytize food passing by.
When it comes to food sponges _____________ consume food particles.
nonselectively
The smallest food particles are taken into the ________ by _______.
choanocytes, phagocytosis
Protein molecules are taken in by?
Pinocytosis ……via fluid acquisition by a cell in a which specific receptors bind ions/molecules present on plasma membranes which are invaginated and pinch off to form small vasicles.
Pinacocytes?
…closest to true tissue…
epithelial like cells making up the pinacoderm…ingest food via phagocytosis at the sponge surface….can become specialized for contractile purposes to help regulate surface area…(myocytes) circular bands around pores or oscula….