Chapter 32 Flashcards
Nutritional modes of plants, fungi, and animals
Plants- autotrophic eukaryotes
Fungi- heterotrophs
Animals- ingesting organic material
How do animal and fungi differ in nutritional modes?
Animals ingest then secrete enzymes, opposite of fungi
What are 4 characteristics of animal cells?
Eukaryotic
Lack cell walls
External proteins in the cell membrane provides structure
Ex- collagen
Orgnaized into tissues
What is the reproduction method of animals, and what stage is dominant?
Sexually
Dominant diploid stage
What occurs during the haploid stage of animals? (3)
meiotic division to produce eggs and sperm
Small, flagellated sperm
Larger, nonmotile egg
What is cleavage, and what does it lead to?
mitotic cell division without cell growth done by zygote
leads to a blastula
What is a blastula, and what does it lead to?
multicellular stage which the zygote takes a form of a ball
gastrulation
What is gastrulation?
process where embryonic tissues form that wild evelop into adult body parts
What is a larva, and three ways it differs from an adult?
sexually immature form of an animal
Morphologically distinct from the adult
Usually feeds on different food
Can inhibit different habitats
What is metamorphosis, and what is the result?
developmental transformation of a larvae that turns it into a juvenile
Juvenile looks like the adult but is not sexually mature
What trait is shared amongst a broad taxa?
Genes that control development
What do development genes do, and what do they contain?
Regulate expression of other genes
Contains homeoboxes- sets of DNA sequences
What are hox genes, what do they contain, 3 roles, and how did they arise?
unique homeobox shared by most animals
Contains family of genes
Aids in development of animal embryo
Controls expression of genes influencing morphology
Regulates formation of anterior-posterior axis
Arose through duplication of homeobox genes
What species lack hox genes, but what do they possess?
sponges
other homeoboxes that influence shape
When did animals arise?
710 million years ago
How do we know when animals arose (3)?
From fossil steroids that produced sponges
Molecular clock estimates sponges originated 700 million years ago
Common ancestor of all extant animal species lived about 770 million years ago
How did we find the origins of multicellular animals?
identify protists groups closely related to animals
What are multicellular animals closest living relatives?
choanoflagellates
How do we know that multicellular animals adn choanoflagellates are closely related? (4)
Common ancestor of animals and choanoflagellates may have been suspension feeders
Choanoflagellate cells and collor cells of sponges are morphologically indistinguishable
Collar cells in flatworms and other animals are also similar to choanoflagellate cells
DNA sequence indicate choanoflagellates and animals are sister groups
What do choanoflagellates and animals share?
Same signal genes and adhesion proteins
Ex- cadherins- adhesion proteins
How does multicellularity arise?
only if cells can adhere and signal to each other
How did cadherin proteins arise?
Cadherin domain in choanoflagellate underwent rearrangement and incorporation of other novel domains to form animal cadherin domains
When was the Neoproterozoic Era, and what 2 things were found?
1 billion to 542 million yeats ago
First accepted animal fossil dates 560 million years ago
Also contains fossils of animal embryos
Still debated whether they are animal embryos
What was the first accepted animal fossil, and what was it thought to be?
ossil of ediacaran biota- Soft-bodied multicellular eukaryote
THOUGHT TO BE MOLLUSCS, SPONGES, AND CNIDARIANS
When was the Ediacaran period, and what was found?
635-542 million years ago
Evidence of predation
What was the first evidence of predation?
Cloudina- animal whose body was protected by a shell shows signs of attack
When was the Paleozoic era?
542-251 million years ago
When was the Cambrian period, and what occured?
535-525
Cambrian explosion- findings of the oldest fossils of about half of alle xtant animal phyla
What was found in the Cambrian explosion?
Includes arthropods, chordates, and echinoderms
Includes first large animal
Most are bilaterians- clade have two-sided or bilaterally symmetric form
What do bilaterians possess (2), and what do they include?
Possess complete digestive tract
Efficient digestive system with mouth at one end and anus at the other
Includes molluscs, arthropods, chordates
What increased in the Cambrian period, and what did it lead to?
diversity of the Cambrian period increases, Ediacaran life-forms decline
Why did soft-bodied Ediacarian species decline? (3)
Predator-prey relationships emerged, and led to the decline of soft-bodied ediacaran species
Increase of atmospheric oxygen led to the decline
Genetic changes affecting development, like Hox genes and microRNAs facilitated formation of new forms
WHat followed the Cambrian period? (2)
increase in diversity
episodes of mass extinction