Dipoblastic and sponges Flashcards
What does porifera mean?
Pore bearer
Sponge habitat?
50 in freshwater, others in marine
What does sessile mean?
Attache to rocks
How do sponges feed?
Filter feeders
What do sponges lack?
Symmetry, muscles or nervous system
Water current enters sponge via?
ostia
Water current leaves the sponge?
Via osculum at top
What is the name of the sponges funnel cell?
Choanocyte
What beats water through sponge?
Flagella
How do sponges reproduce?
Hemaphrodites - sperm sent out the osculum and larvae are free swimming
Some sponge reproduce asexually via?
Budding
Sponges synthesis chemicals such as
Oxylipins (protect against predators)
Which class do most sponges belong to?
Demospongia
What are the 3 classes of porifera?
Demospongia, hexactinella and calcarea
What are ctenophore?
Comb carriers
Habitat of ctenophore?
Open sea
What separates the 2 cell layers of ctenophore?
Gelatinous layer (mesoglea)
Do ctenophore have complete through gut?
Yes
How do ctenophore move?
Cells with plates of cilia
Ctenophores may be closely related to what?
The ancestor of all animals
What are cnidaria?
Stinging cells
Habitat of cnidaria?
all aquatic, almost all marine
What separates the 2 layers of cnidaria?
Mesogloea, same as ctenophora
What is the cnidarian mouth?
Blind gastrovascular cavity with 1 opening
Cnidaria also known as
Coelenterates
‘Nemato’?
thread
Cnidaria life cycle?
Sessile polyp and Motile medusa
Cnidarian polyp may bud to form
asexually produced colonies
Cnidarian medusa shed what into the water?
Eggs and sperm
What happens to cnidarian fertilised egg?
Free swimming, ciliated planula larva. Settles to bottom and transforms into polyp
Essentially, what is a medusa?
An inverted polyp without a stalk
What are the 4 classes of cnidaria?
Anthozoa, Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, hydrozoa
(Cnidarian class) What are Anthozoa?
flower animals, sea anemones, hard and soft corals
(Cnidarian class) Anthozoa lack medusa or polyp stage?
Lack medusa
(Cnidarian class) Corals have what kind of relationship with particular algae?
Symbiotic - corals provide inorganic nutrients and algae provide sugars from photosynthesis
(Cnidarian class) What are hydrozoa?
Water animals
(Cnidarian class) What stage of life cycle dominates hydrozoa?
Polyp (while some species only have medusa stage)
(Cnidarian class) What are scyphozoa?
Jelly fish (cup shaped animals)
(Cnidarian class) Life cycle of scyphozoa?
Large medusa and small polyps
(Cnidarian class) What are cubozoa?
Box jellyfish
(Cnidarian class) What’s special about some box jellyfish?
Have eyes with a retina, lens and iris