Diversity of Animals I Flashcards
What is the phylum name for flatworms?
Platyhelminthes
How many germ layers do platyhelminthes have?
Triploblastic
What type of body cavity do platyhelminthes have?
Acoelomates
Describe the body cavity of platyhelminthes
Filled with loose parenchyma derived from mesoderm
Describe the symmetry of platyhelminthes
Bilateral symmetry
What is a characteristic of the platyhelminthes body shape?
Dorsoventrally flattened
What are three classes of platyhelminthes?
- Turbellaria
- Trematoda
- Cestoda
Are turbellaria free-living or parasitic?
Free-living
What structure do turbellaria use to feed?
A pharynx that comes out of a ventrally-located mouth
Describe the turbellaria diet
Carnivorous: living invertebrates or dead animals
What is an advancement of turbellaria digestive system?
Highly branched to increase surface area
Do platyhelminthes have a complete digestive tract?
No, they do not have an anus.
How does egestion occur for platyhelminthes?
Out of mouth (no anus)
Where does platyhelminthes gas exchange occur?
Diffusion through their skin (aided by being flat)
How does excreton occur for platyhelminthes?
Excretion of NH3 by diffusion
What is a huge advancement of platyhelminthes for water removal?
Water is removed by protonephridia with a flame cell.
Describe the platyhelminthes central nervous system
Transverse nerve cords with a tiny cerebral ganglia at the head of the animal.
How do turbellaria reproduce asexually?
Transverse binary fission into 2 small turbellarians called zooids.
How do turbellaria reproduce sexually? (3 steps)
- Both flatworms exchange sperm (monoecious)
- Zygotes are enclosed in a cocoon
- Zygotes develop into immature turbellarians that break out of the cocoon when the weather is good.
What is a common name for the trematoda?
Flukes
How do trematodes feed?
Adult flukes are parasitic on vertebrates
Describe the trematoda digestive tract (2 components)
- Mouth and Pharynx
2. 2 Intestinal branches
Do trematodes have a complete digestive system?
No. No anus
How does a fluke protect itself from the host’s defenses and digestive juices?
A layer of the epidermic called the tegument
Is the fluke tegument living or nonliving?
Living
Where does gas exchange occur in a trematode?
Diffusion through epidermis
Where does excretion occur in a trematode?
Diffusion of NH3 through epidermis
How does a fluke attach itself to its host? (2 ways)
- Oral sucker
2. Acetabulum (ventral sucker)
What species of trematode is the human liver fluke?
Clonorchis sinensis
Describe the eight (8) step life cycle of the human liver fluke
- Fluke eggs shed in feces of infected people and are washed into fresh water
- Fluke larva (miracidium) emerges from egg and ingested by snail
- Miracidium loses cilia to become a sporocyst
- Sporocyst grows into a redia that can reproduce asexually.
- Redia reproduces forming more rediae.
- Snail deteriorates and rediae grow tails to become cercaria.
- The cercaria attaches to fish using tail, loses tail and encysts to form a metacercaria.
- Humans eat raw fish and digestive juices release metacercaria which grows into sexually reproduce adult.
What is a definitive host?
Where the parasite produces sexually
What is intermediate host?
Where the parasite either reproduces asexually or exhibits developmental changes.
Name the five (5) different stages of the human liver fluke
- Miracidium (larva)
- Sporocyst (larva without cilia)
- Redia (can reproduce asexually)
- Cercaria (redia grows tail)
- Metacercaria (cercaria encysted in fish)
What is the common name of cestoda?
Tape worms
How do cestoda feed?
Parasitic in the intestines of vertebrates
Describe the cestoda digestive system
Cestoda secondarily lost mouth and digestive tract because the host does it for them.
How do cestoda attach to their host?
Suckers and hooks for attachment
What is the head of the tape worm called?
Scolex
What are the segments of a tape worm called?
Proglottids
Where are the tape worm’s hooks located?
On a bump of the scolex called Rostellum
Describe the maturity of the proglottids from closest to scolex to further away
- Immature
- Mature
- Gravid (filled with eggs)
How is the tape worm embryo nourished and protected?
While the egg passes through the uterus the yolk gland adds food and the shell gland adds protection.
What is the phylum name for round worms?
Nematoda
What type of body cavity do nematodes have?
Pseudocoelomates
Describe the body cavity of a pseudocoelomate
Body cavity left over from embryonic blastocoel that is not lined with peritoneum or mesenteries.
Are nematodes free living or parasitic?
Both. Many are parasitic
Do nematodes have a complete digestive tract?
Yes
What is a unidirectional digestive tract?
Food runs in one direction from mouth to anus
Why is a unidirectional digestive tract more efficient?
Regions along the tract can specialize and divide up functions
What type of symmetry to nematodes have?
Bilateral symmetry
Describe the central nervous system of nematodes
Dorsal and ventral nerve cords
Describe the nematode excretory system
Protonephridia and two lateral excretory canals.
How does gas exchange occur in nematodes?
Diffusion
How do nematodes protect themselves from host or in general?
Cuticle secreted by the epidermis
Is the roundworm cuticle living or nonliving?
Nonliving
What is the most common human roundworm parasite in the U.S. and describe them?
Enterobius vermicularis - human pinworms. Live in intestines.
What parasitic human roundworm is common in areas where the ground doesn’t freeze enough to kill the eggs and describe them?
Necator americanus - human hookworm. Burrow through skin and end up in intestines.
What parasitic human roundworm lives in uncooked pork and describe them?
Trichinella spiralis - porkworm. Encysted larvae live in the muscle tissue of pigs.
What parasitic human roundworm causes elephantitis and describe them?
Wuchereria bancrofti. Cause blockage of lymph vessels resulting in swelling.
What is the phylum name for horse-hair worms?
Nematomorpha
Where do nematomorpha live (larva and adult)?
- The larvae live in grasshoppers, crickets and cockroaches
2. Adults live in freshwater
Where are the two divisions of eucoelomates?
- Protostomia
2. Deuterostomia
What is the difference in the formation of the digestive tract between the two divisions of eucoelomates?
Protostomia: Blastopore becomes mouth.
Deuterostomia: Blastopore becomes anus
What is the difference in spindle fibers between the two divisions of eucoelomates?
Protostomia: Spindle fiber is oblique (resulting in spiral cleavage)
Deuterostomia: Spindle fiber is perpendicular or parallel (resulting in radial cleavage)
What is the difference between determinate and indeterminate cleavage?
In indeterminate cleavage, each of the four cells of the embryo can be separated and develop into a whole organism.
What is the difference between embryonic cleavage between the two divisions of eucoelomates?
Protostomia: Determinate cleavage
Deuterostomia: Indeterminate cleavage
What is a trochophore larva?
A top shaped embryo
What is a dipleurula larva?
A bilateral larva
What is the difference in embryo morphology between the two divisions of eucoelomates?
Protostomia: Trochophore larva
Deuterostomia: Dipleurula larva
What is schizocoelus?
Mesoderm splits to form the coelom
What is enterocoelus?
Coelom forms as outpockets of the gut
What is the difference in coelom formation between the two division of eucoelomates?
Protostomia: schizocoelous
Deuterostomia: enterocoelous
What phylum contains snails and octopods?
Mollusca
What is characteristic of the body design for phyla mollusca?
- Head-foot region
2. visceral mass
What is contained in the visceral mass of a mollusk?
Digestive tract, reproductive tract, circulatory system and excretory system
What helps protect the visceral mass in a mollusk?
A mantle, which often secretes a shell.
How does gas exchange for a mollusk?
Gills
What are the three (3) layers of a mollusk shell from superficial to deep?
- outer periostracum - protein (dark)
- middle prismatic layer (chalky)
- inner nacreous layer (shiny)
What are three (3) classes of phylum mollusca?
- Gastropoda
- Bivalvia
- Cephalopoda
What is torsion when referring to gastropods?
180 degree twisting of visceral mass
What is coiling when referring to gastropods
Coiling of visceral mass to allow them to secrete coiled shells
Where do thegills, anus and excretory tract of a gastropod open?
Open at the same end as the mouth as a result of torsion
What does a snail use to close its shell opening when hiding?
A tough covering on the food called the operculum
How do gastropods move?
Foot secrets mucous which they use for traction to move by cilia located on foot.
What type of circulatory system do gastropods have?
Open circulatory system
How do gastropods feed?
Scrape algae from substrate with a radula
Describe the bivalvia body form
Laterally compressed with two shells
How do bivalves attach to sediment?
protein strands called byssal threads
If bivalves are mostly sedentary, how do they become dispersed?
The larval stage allows them to disperse
Describe the dispersal of bivalvia larvae
- Eggs are released into the mantle cavity
- Sperm enter with the water current and fertilizes the egg
- Mothers host embryos in gills
- Glochidia larva leave the mother and become parasitic on fish gills
- Miniature clam falls from fish and become sedentary
What is the name of bivalvia larva?
Glochidia
What type of circulatory system do bivalvia have?
Open circulatory system
What type of feeders are bivalvia?
Filter feeders
Describe bivalvia feeding mechanism
- Incurrent siphon brings in water
- Gills trap food particles in mucous
- Particles carried to mouth
What class does the octopus belong to?
Cephalopoda
Describe the cephalopoda body plan
A large head and anterior foot is modified into tentacles used for walking, catching prey and mating.
Describe the shell of a cuttlefish
Small internal shell
Describe the shell of a squid
Small internal “pen”
Describe the shell of an octopus
no shell
Describe the shell of a nautilus
Full, chambered shell
What do cephalopods feed on?
Other animals (small invertebrates to young sperm whales)
What type of circulatory system do cephalopods have?
Closed circulatory system
Describe octopus nervous system
Have a memory and ability to learn. Large neurons that are used for neurological research.
Describe the octopus eyes
Octopus see images, shapes and colors
What is the relationship between cephalopod eyes and vertebrate eyes?
Convergent evolution - evolved separately but greatly resemble each other.
What cells allow cephalopods to change colors?
Chromatophores