Chapter 32: An Overview of Animal Diversity Flashcards
What are some basic characteristics of all animals?
- Multicellular
- Heterotrophic eukaryotes
- tissues develop from embryonic layers
- Lack cell walls
- Lack chloroplasts (have mitochondria)
- Bodies held together by collagen
- Have nervous/muscle tissue
- Chemoheterotrophs
- Capacity for locomotion
Explain how a sperm fertilizes an egg.
- The sperm touches the jelly coat of the egg and is triggered to release enzymes to break it down.
- Acrosomal reaction
- receptors on the egg surface bind to molecules on the sperm surface
- Polyspermy is blocked.
- Cortical reaction causes tail of sperm to fall off and sperm head fully enters the egg.
What is acrosomal reaction?
Acrosome at tip of sperm releases enzymes to break down the jelly coat and egg receptors bind to sperm receptors
What is polyspermy?
When multiple sperm fertilize an egg (this gets prevented)
What are the steps of embryonic development?
- Zygote undergoes mitosis (cleavage)
- 8-cell embryo stage
- Cleavage gives you a blastula
- blastocoel forms
- Gastrulation
- one end of blastula folds inwards
- 3 germ layers emerge
- Gastrula is formed and now embryo develops
What is cleavage?
When a cell divides by mitosis, but there is no cell growth between each division.
What is a blastula?
A ball of cells containing a blastocoel
What is a blastocoel?
Fluid cavity inside of the blastula
What is a gastrula?
Embryonic stage where the embryo has 3 germ layers:
- Ectoderm
- Mesoderm
- Endoderm
During embryonic development, what does the blastocoel develop into?
Mesoderm
What is gastrulation?
- Forming of the gastrula with different layers of embryonic tissue
- Movement of cells from the blastula surface to the interior of the embryo (blastula folds inwards)
What is a larva?
Early, immature form of an animal that is morphologically different from the adult.
E.g., tadpole to frog
What is morphogenesis?
Process where cells occupy their appropriate location
- includes gastrulation and organogenesis (formation or organs)
What is metamorphosis?
When the larva transforms the juvenile animal into an adult, but is not yet sexually mature.
What is the ancestor of animals?
Protist; choanoflagellates
The common ancestor of living animals may have lived between:
a. 700 and 770 billion years ago
b. 700 and 770 million years ago
c. 500 and 550 billion years ago
D. 500 and 550 million years ago
b. 700 and 770 million years ago
Why are choanoflagellates considered the closest ancestor to animals?
- Choanoflagellates are identical to choanocytes (collar cells) found in sponges and other animals
- These choanocytes, however, are not found in other protists, fungi or plants.
Animals have cadherin proteins and choanoflagellates have cadherin-like proteins. What is the difference between them?
The cadherin proteins in animals have the “CCD” domain, which choanoflagellate cadherin-like proteins lack.
What do cadherin proteins do?
Hold the animal and choanoflagellate cells together
What are Ediacaran biota?
Fossilized multicellular eukaryotes dating back to 560 million years ago
When did the Cambrian period begin?
a. 735 to 725 billion years ago
b. 735 to 725 million years ago
c. 535 to 525 billion years ago
d. 535 to 525 million years ago
d. 535 to 525 million years ago
What is the Cambrian explosion?
Rapid diversification of multicellular animals
- hunters arose
- bilaterians arose
What are bilaterians?
Animals with:
- bilaterally symmetric form
- complete digestive tract
- one-way digestive system
- What did the Ordovician period give rise to?
- When did this occur?
a. 650 million years ago
b. 650 billion years ago
c. 450 million years ago
d. 450 billion years ago
- Land animals
2. c. 450 million years ago
When did vertebrates transition to land?
a. 365 billion years ago
b. 365 million years ago
c. 425 billion years ago
d. 425 million years ago
b. 365 million years ago
What lived in the Mesozoic era?
- dinosaurs
- mammals
- flowering plants and insects