Invertebrates Flashcards

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Porifera (sponges)

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live in fresh and marine water

lack true tissue and organs

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Cnidarians

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sessile (polyp) and motile (medusa) forms
simple- diploblastic and radial body plan
have GVC
4 classes of cnidarians include: cubazoa, hydrozoa, scyphozoa, staurozoa

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lophotrochozoan

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bilateral animals- triploblastic

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Platyhelminthe (flatworm)

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acelomates although have tripoblastic
fine branches of GVC and gas exchange through protonephridia

Class:
turbellarians: scavengers and predators in marine, reproduce sexually and asexually
monogeneans and termatodes: parasites in or on animals
cestoda: parasites of vertebrates and lack digestive system

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Molluscs

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most are marine
soft bodied animals protected by a hard shell
BODY PLAN:muscular foot, visceral mass and mantle( water filled)
Class:
Chitons: oval shaped, no head just foot for movement
Gastropods: freshwater/teresstrial and have single spiral shell. torsion( anus above mouth)
Bivalves: clams and oysters. 2 hard shells
Cephalopods: squid and octopus: beaklike jaw and tentacles …ammniotes(shelled) where common but went extinct.

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Annelids

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cephilization, complete gut, circulatory system and bilateral symmetry
Class:
oligochaetes: earthworms-eat through soil
leeches: hirudin
Polychaetes: parapodia made of chitin to aid locomotion

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ecdysozoans

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tough cuticle
cuticle molted
nematodes and arthropodes

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Nematodes (roundworms)

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cuticle shed when it grow
nutrients through body fluid via pseudocoelom
thrashing motion

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Arthropods

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  • segmented body and hard exoskeleton
  • joined appendages little variation from segment to segment covered by complete cuticle
  • open circulatory system- hemolymph
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Arthropods: Cheliceriforms

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clawlike feeding appendages, ex: horseshoe crab and sea spider
arachnids: spiders– have book lungs(where gas exchange happenes)

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Arthropods: Myriapods

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jaw-like mandibles

milipedes and centipedes

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Arthropods: Hexapoda

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insects:
flight
exoskeleton 
tracheal system for gas exchange
complete metamorphasis vs incomplete( associated with young)
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Arthropods: crustaceans

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2 branched appendages
endopod: swimming
exopod: gill
Isopods: small
DecapodsL large lobsters and crabs
Copepods: planktonic
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Choanocytes

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Line GVC and capture food particles

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Amoebytes

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Channel the engulfed food and carry nutrients to cells

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