Chapter 33 Flashcards
Invertebrates
- lack a back bone
- account for over 95% of known animal species
Sponges are in the phylum ____
Porifera
Sponges _____ (name some common characteristics of them)
- are sessile
- lack tissues
- live in marine water or fresh water
- are filter feeders
filter feeders _____
capture food particles that are suspended in the water that passes through their body
In sponges water is drawn through pores into the _____
spongocoel
In sponges water that is in their body goes out through the _____
osculum
Sponges ____ have germ layers
DO NOT
The type of cell in sponges that generate a water current through the sponge in order to ingest suspended food
Choanocytes
Sponges consist of a gelatinous noncellular ____ layer between two cell layers
mesohyl
the type of cells in sponges that are totipotent and help digestion and to manufacture skeletal fibers
amoebocytes
Sponges ___ function as hermaphrodites
DO
sequential hermaphroditism
function first as one sex and then function as the ther
diploblastic - a sac with a central digestive compartment (the gastrovascular cavity)
body plan of cnidarians
The phylum that cnidarians belong to
eumetazoans
the gastrovascular cavity of cnidarians act as a _____ and contractile fibers can work against it to cause movement
hydrostatic skeleton