Exam 2 Flashcards
what are some key characteristics of the Phylum Cnidaria?
•diploblastic
•shallow marine environments, some freshwater
•radial, biradial
•free-swimming medusae
•sessile polyps
•fossils date back to ~700 mya (pre-cambrian)
•9,000 species
what are Cnidocytes?
contain nematocyst, stinging organelle; diploblastic
Mesoglea (jelly) is:
extracellar matrix that lies between layers; 95% water
in the Phylum Cnidaria tentacles _________ & muscles _________
•tentacles encircle mouth/oral region
•muscles extend, contract, bend, & pulse
Phylum Cnidaria sense organs:
balance= statocysts
photosensitivity= ocelli
what does the nerve net do in phylum cnidaria?
transmit nerve signal across synapse (unidirectional like us) or back (not like us)
asexual reproduction in phylum cnidaria:
budding in polyps
sexual reproduction in phylum cnidaria:
•by gametes of all medusae, some polyps
•monoecious or dioecious (separate sexes)
phylum cnidaria lacks what 2 systems?
excretory & respiratory systems
acoelomate (lacks a coelom)
phylum cnidaria- polyps:
•sedentary
•mouth leads to blind cavity
•colonial forms specialized for feeding, reproduction, or defense
phylum cnidaria- medusa:
•bell or umbrella-shaped
•usually free-swimming
•mouth directed downward
•tentacles down from rim of umbrella
•dioecious (sexually)
polyp development (cnidaria)
•zygote develops —> motile planula larva
•planula settles, metamorphoses into a polyp
•produce other polyps asexually
•polyps eventually produce a free-swimming medusa by asexual reproduction (budding or strobilation)
Cnidaria: feeding and defense
•many are predators
•cnidocytes:
- produces > 20 types of cnidae
- one type = nematocyst
- tiny capsules, chitin-like material, coiled filament (barbed or spined), covered by operculum, tactile stimulation
cnidaria:
after discharge _________ is absorbed and another develops
cnidocyte
cnidaria feeding cycle:
- water rushed into capsule
- operculum opens, rapidly launched the filament
- barbs inject poison into prey
- prey moved to mouth
describe the class hydrozoa
•most marine, colonial (polyp & medusa)
-hydra is atypical
-obelia is typical
•typical hydroid has a base, a stalk, less than or equal to 1 terminal zooids
what is a stolon?
root like structure
what is hydrocauli?
tubes connecting individuals
what is perisarc?
sheath of chitin around hydrocauli
characteristics of hydra:
•freshwater
•worldwide
•feed on small crustaceans, insect larvae, & worms
•3 types of cnidae (catch, move, adhere prey)
•asexual reproduction by budding
•most dioecious (egg, sperm external)
•encysted zygota endure winter, young hatch in spring
the sessile stage in the life cycle of cnidarians is?
polyp
free-swimming stage that reproduced sexually in the life cycle of cnidarians is?
medusa
the gill cover in bony fishes; keratinized plate in some snails is:
operculum
stinging organelle in cnidarians is:
nematocyst
sense organs of equilibrium; a fluid-filled cellular cyst containing one or more granules used to sense direction of gravity
statocyst
free-swimming, ciliated larval type of cnidarians
planula
what is a zooid?
individual polyp animal
the portion projecting from the oral side of a jelly medusa
manubrium
flaplike extension of the mouth of a scyphozoan medusa that aids in feeding
oral lobe
repeated linear budding of individuals, as in scyphozoan ephyrae, or sets of reproductive organs in tapeworms
strobilation
shelflike extension of the subumbrellar edge in cubozoans
velarium
the end of a cnidarian polyps bearing the mouth
oral disc
transverse plates of fused cilia
comb plates
comb jellies
ctenophores
region of an animal opposite the mouth
aboral pole
a simple eye or eyespot in many types of invertebrates
ocellus
tadpolelike juveniles of trematodes (flukes)
cercariae
pelagic means:
free swimming
evolutionary process by which specialization became localized in the head end of animals
cephalization
blastopore
mouth
lophotrochozoas are
larva with whorls of tentacles
neodermis
new skin
protonephrida
flame cell
rheoreceptors
sense direction of water currents
chemoreceptors
detect food in planaria
the host in which sexual reproduction of symbiont occurs
definitive/final host
organs in the epidermis of most turbellarians, with three cell types: viscid and releasing gland cells and anchor cells
dual gland
organism with both male and female functional reproductive organs
hermaphrodite
host in which some development of symbiont occurs, but no maturation or sexual reproduction
intermediate host
fluke juvenile that has lost its tail and become encysted
metacercariae
free swimming ciliated larva; larval stage in the life of flukes
miracidium
posterior attachment organ of a monogenetic trematode
opisthaptor
comb rows
equally spaced bands made of comb plates
unisexual reproduction involving the production of young by females not fertilized by males
parthenogenesis