INVERTEBRATES PP

Question 1

Genus & specices example

Answer 1

Genus: Rana
Species: R. temporaria (only remporaria italizied)

Question 2

R. temporaria belongs to
Kingdom:
Phylum: 
Class:
Subclass:
Order: 
Family

Answer 2

Animalia
Chordata (vertebrate)
Amphibia
Lissamphibia 
Anura
Ranidae

Question 3

what flat worm causes

Answer 3

Genus Schistosoma
Species S. mansion
flatworm that causes
Schistosomiasis or Bilharzia

Question 4

Asymmetry

Answer 4

No particular body shape (sponges).

Question 5

Radial symmetry

Answer 5

arrangement of the organism’s parts around a single main axis (in echinoderms, ctenophores, cnidarians, and some sponges)

Question 6

Bilateral symmetry

Answer 6

arrangement of an organism or organism’s parts along one central plane allowing division into two equal halves (in chordata, arthropoda, annelida)

Question 7

comb jellies are

Answer 7

the largest
animals propelled by beating of cilia

Solitary, free-swimming marine invertebrates, small, transparent, sometimes bioluminescent

Question 8

Cnidaria are and contain?

Answer 8

Tubular, reside in shallow
marine waters, have polyp and medusa
body forms

a. stinging cells (cnidocytes)
b. fluid-filled nematocyst
c. two-layered body sac
Protective epidermis
**Gastrovascular cavity

Question 9

what did Anton van Leeuwenhoek do?

Answer 9

gave detailed description of

Rotifer vulgaris in 1702

Question 10

what are Filter Feeders?

Answer 10

capture tiny food particles suspended in water