Chapter 42 Flashcards
The earliest branches of the animal phylogenic tree include…
sponges, cnidarians, ctenophores, placozoans
How many animals species are there?
1.5 million have been described; estimates 5-30+ million exist
Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia separately evolved from…
single-celled eukaryotes
Is Eukarya monophyletic, paraphyletic, or polyphyletic?
monophyletic
Is Animalia monophyletic, paraphyletic, or polyphyletic?
monophyletic
Choanoflagellates
protist; sister taxon relationship to animals
There are ___ phyla within Metazoa
35
______ are the most basal metazoans
sponges
Is the phylum Porifera monophyletic?
no
Metazoa is broken into two Subkingdoms of Animals:
Parazoa and Eumetazoa
Metazoan phylogeny is based in part on…
body plan and early development patterns
Parazoans have…
only cellular grade of complexity
Eumetazoa have…
at least a tissue grade of complexity
Do parazoans have a gut?
no
Do eumetazoans have a gut?
yes
Porifera
Sponges
choanocytes
flagellated cells in sponges that capture food; also called collar cells and are similar to choanoflagellates
Sponge skeletons are made of…
collagen and/or mineralized spicules
Sponges lack…
tissues and guts
Sponge habits include:
filter-feeding, sex, and a larval stage
Sponges are chemically _____
exotic; chemicals aid in competitive interactions + defend against predators
Sponge larvae are _______ that either drift to settle to stick to parent
blastulae
Are eumetazoans diploblastic or triploblastic
they are either
Are sponges diploblastic or triploblastic
have no tissue layers therefore not a eumetazoan
The ___ is formed with the second tissue layer, which first appears in the diploblastic animals
gut
diploblasts
have an ectoderm and endoderm with gelatinous material between
ectoderm
outermost tissue layer; forms the skin and nervous system
endoderm
innermost tissue layer; forms the gut and it is formed during gastrulation
Are Eumetazoa radially or bilaterally symmetric
could be either
radially symmetrical animals are usually…
attached to a surface or they float
Do radially symmetrical animals have a central nervous system?
no, they have a diffuse nerve net
Cnidarians
corals and jellyfish and their relatives
Characteristics of Cnidarians
diploblastic, radially symmetric, blind gut, a species can have a polyp stage or medusa or both, solitary or colonial
Cnidarians have tentacles with ______
cnidocytes or stinging cells
examples of cnidaria
hydra (polyps), coral, sea anemone, jellyfish (medusa)
Ctenophora
comb jelly
Characteristics of ctenophora
diploblastic, radially symmetric, predators, swim with cilia
bilaterians including protostomes and deuterostomes have…
bilateral symmetry and develop from 3 germ layers
two of the phyla of Ecdysozoa that make up most of the animals on Earth are…
Nematoda and Arthropoda
The _____ is part of the exoskeleton
cuticle
Ecdysozoans grow by…
ecdysis
Ecdysozoans are
protostome bilaterians
Phylum Nematoda
unsegmented, move by undulation, estimated to be over 1 million species; some pest species and some parasites (ex. roundworm)
Phylum Tardigrada common name
water bears
Tardigrada characteristics
segmented body, lack jointed limbs, microscopic; live in mosses, soil, or bottom of lakes/ocean
Phylum Onychophora common name
velvet worms
Onychophora characteristics
Live in moist leaf little, prey on small invertebrates, segmented body, limbs are not jointed, catch prey by shooting sticky slime
Phylum Arthropoda characteristics
segmented, jointed appendages, cuticle is stiff (chitin); open circulatory system, several types of metamorphosis; higher level relationships
What are the 3 kinds of metamorphosis?
ametabolous, hemimetabolous, holometabolous
Ametabolous
young and adults wingless; only change in size (ex. silverfish)
Hemimetabolous
Young (nymphs) resemble adults (ex. grasshopper)
Holometabolous
Young (larvae) completely different from adults; pass through a sessile pupil stage (ex. butterfly)
ecdysis
molting of the cuticle
Characteristics of Subphylum Chelicerata, Class Arachnida
named for chelicerae near mouth, segmented body, joined limbs, 2 tagmata, NO metamorphosis (do molt)
Order Araneae common name
the Spiders
Order Opiliones common name
The Harvestmen