Chapter 18 The Evolution of Invertebrate Diversity Flashcards

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With more than a million species– nearly three-quarters of all animal species– these are exemplars of animal diversity.

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Insects

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What characteristics make up an animal? (3)

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  • Eukaryotes
  • Multi cellular heterotrophs, and have cells that lack cell walls.
  • Use ingestion (the eating of food)
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Absorbs nutrients after ingesting food outside their body?

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Fungi

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What does diploid mean?

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Full set of chromosomes

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What does haploid mean?

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1/2 set of chromosomes

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Are eggs and sperm haploid or diploid?

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haploid

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The zygote divides by mitosis to form a hallow ball of cells called a ________

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Blastula

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What is formed when sperm and egg fuse during fertilization?

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Zygote

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One side of the blastula folds in and cells become rearranged to form a _______ that establishes three embryonic layers.

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Gastrula

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What are the 3 embryonic layers?

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  • Endoderm
  • Ectoderm
  • Mesoderm
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Embryonic layer that forms a lining of the future digestive tract.

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Endoderm

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Embryonic layer that forms an outer layer that will give rise to the skin and nervous system.

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Ectoderm

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Embryonic layer that forms a middle layer that will give rise to muscles and most internal organs.

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Mesoderm

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Invagination of ectoderm to form CNS. (makes a tube)

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Neuralation

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An immature individual that looks different from the adult animal.

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Larva

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A larva undergoes a major change in body form, called ____________, and becomes a reproductively mature adult.

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Metamorphosis

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Acceleration of animal diversification during the Cambrian period.

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Cambrian explosion

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The most celebrated source of Cambrian fossils is the _____ ______, containing a cornucopia of perfectly preserved animal fossils.

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Burgess Shale

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What may have caused the Cambrian explosion? (2)

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  • Increasing complex predator-prey relationships or

- An increase in atmospheric oxygen.

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Animals with a backbone.

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Vertebrates

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Animals without a backbone.

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Invertebrates

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22
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Roughly what percent of animals are invertebrates?

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96%

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Animals without true tissues.

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Sponges

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Animals with true tissues.

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Eumetazoans

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Animals with three tissue layers and bilateral symmetry.

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Bilaterians

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Body plans and molecular comparisons of animals can be used to build what?

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Phylogenetic trees

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Phylum Porifera

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Sponges

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Simple animals
Do not have true tissues
Usually lack body symmetry, and
Are usually marine, although some are found in fresh water.

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Sponges

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The body of a sponge consists of two layers of cells separated by a gelatinous region.

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Choanocytes

Amoebocytes

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Helps to sweep water through the sponges body.

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Choanocytes

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Wander through the middle body of the sponge and produce skeletal fibers composed of flexible proteins and mineralized particles called spicules.

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Amoebocytes

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Filtering food particles from water passed through food-trapping equipment.

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Suspension feeders

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Are sponges suspension feeders?

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Yes

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Radial animals with tentacles and stinging cells.

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Cnidarians.

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Functions in digestion, in circulaion and as a hydrostatic skeleton.

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Gastrovascular cavity

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Unique stinging cells that capture prey and function in defense.

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Cnidocytes

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The simplest bilaterians.

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Flat worms

38
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Have 3 tissue layers but lack a body cavity.

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Flat worms

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Live in marine, freshwater, and damp terrestrial habitats

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Flat worms

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Can be parasitic or free living.

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Flat worms

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What are the 3 major groups of flat worms?

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  • Free-living Flatworms
  • Flukes
  • Tapeworms
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Planarians

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Free-living Flat worms

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Platyhelminthes

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Flat worms

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  • Have heads with light sensitive eyecups.
  • Flaps to detect chemicals.
  • Dense clusters of nerve cells that form a simple brain and a pair o nerve cords that run the length of the body.
  • A branched gastrovascular cavity with a single opening.
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Free-living flat worms.

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Are parasitic flatworms with complex life cycles; many have suckers to attach to their hosts.

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Flukes

46
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-Are parasitic
-Inhabit the digestive tracts of vertebrates.
Consist of a ribbon like body with repeated units.
-No mouth.
-Simply absorb nutrients across their body surface.

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Tapeworms

47
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Also called roundworms, are abundant and diverse.

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Nematodes

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Have a body cavity and complete digestive tract.

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Nematodes

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Phylum Nematoda

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Nematodes

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Part of the molluscs that functions in locomotion.

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Foot

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Part of the molluscs containing most of the internal organs.

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Visceral mass

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Do molluscs have a circulatory system?

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Yes

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How do molluscs feed?

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Using a rasping radula, used to scrape up food.

54
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Are the largest group of molluscs and included snails and slugs.

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Gastropods

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Include clams, oysters, musscles, and scallops.

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Bivalves

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Includes squids, octopuses, and nautiluses. Fast agile predators.

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Cephalopods

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phylum annelida

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Annelids

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Segmented worms

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Annelids

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The subdivision of the body along its length into a series of repeated parts.

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Segmentation

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Are segmented. Have nervous system, and a closed circulatory system.

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Annelids.

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Blood is pumped through vessels into open body cavities.

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Open circulatory system.

62
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Blood remains enclosed in vessels throughout the body.

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Closed circulatory system.

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3 groups of annelids.

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Earthworms
Polychaetes
Leeches

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Largest group of annelids. Search for prey on the seafloor or live in tubes and filter food particles.

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Polychaetes

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Include crayfish, lobsters, crabs, barnacles, spiders, ticks, and insects.

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Arthropods.

66
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Nearly 75% of ll identified animal species are ________.

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Insects.

67
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Free living larva transforms from pupa into an adult.

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Complete metamorphosis

68
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The transition from larva to adult is achieved through multiple molts, but without forming a pupa.

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Incomplete metamorphosis

69
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Diverse group including sea stars, sand dollars, and sea urchins.

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Enchinoderms

70
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Do enchinoderms have an exoskeleton or endoskeleton?

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Endoskeleton.

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Hard calcium-containing plates under a thin skin.

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endoskeleton.

72
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Have the ability to regenerate lost arms.

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Enchinoderms

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Defined by

  • a dorsal, hollow nerve cord
  • a flexible supportive, longitudinal rod, the notochord,
  • pharygeal slits
  • a muscular post anal tail.
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Chordates

74
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Adult tunicates are…..

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Stationary and attached.

75
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Tunicate larva is a ______ like organism.

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tadpole

76
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Small, bladelike chrdates that live in marine sands.

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Lancelets