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Lab 4 - Porifera and Cnidaria Flashcards

1
Q

What organisms are in the phylum porifera?

A

sponges

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2
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What level of organization are porifera?

A

cellular

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3
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How many germ layers do porifera have?

A

none

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4
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What kind of body cavity do porifera have?

A

Acoelom

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5
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What type of symmetry do porifera have?

A

asymmetry

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6
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How do porifera get food?

A

filter feeding - phagocytosis

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7
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What kind of support system do porifera have?

A

no formal support system

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8
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Porifera - locomotion

A

sessile

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9
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What kind of circulation do porifera have?

A

none

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10
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What kind of sensory structures do porifera have?

A

none

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11
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How do porifera excrete?

A

diffusion

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12
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How do porifera reproduce?

A

sexual and asexual

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13
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What are the classes of porifera?

A

hexactinellida, demospongiae, and calcarea

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14
Q

Osculum

A

large opening on top where water exits the sponge

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15
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Ostia

A

pores where water enters the sponge

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16
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Spongocoel

A

internal cavity of the sponge

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17
Q

Choanocytes

A

flagellated cells that filter food from the water coming into the sponge

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18
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Amoebocytes

A

interior of the sponge - aid in digestion, secretes spicules, and aids in reproduction

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19
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Pinacytes

A

outer surface - maintain structure and size

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20
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What are the three types of sponges?

A

Asconoid, sysonoid, and leuconid

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21
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Asconoid

A

small and tube shaped

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22
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Syconoid

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tube-like with a complex canal system

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23
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Leuconoid

A

largest and most complicated

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24
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Are porifera monoecious or dioecious ?

A

monoecious

25
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What is the difference between monoecious and dioecious?

A

mono - one house (has both eggs and sperm)
dio - two houses (has either eggs or sperm

26
Q

What organisms are in phylum cnidaria?

A

coral, jellyfish, and hydra

27
Q

What level of organization are cnidaria?

28
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How many germ layers do cnidaria have?

A

2 - diploblastic

29
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What kind of body cavity do cnidaria have?

30
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What kind of symmetry do cnidaria have?

31
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Cnidaria - digestion

A

gastrovascular cavity

32
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What kind of support do cnidaria have?

A

hydrostatic skeleton

33
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Cnidaria - locomotion

A

simple muscle contraction

34
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What kind of circulation do cnidaria have?

35
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What kind of sensory structures do cnidaria have?

A

simple nerve net

36
Q

How do cnidaria excrete?

37
Q

How do cnidaria reproduce?

A

sexual or asexual

38
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Where are cnidaria found?

39
Q

What are the classes of cnidaria?

A

Hydrozoa, cubozoa, scyphozoa, staurozoa, anthozoa

40
Q

What are the two body forms of cnidaria?

A

polyp (anthozoa, hydrozoa) and medusa (scyphozoa)

41
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Hydrozoa

A

hydra, fire corals

42
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Are hydrozoa polyp or medusa dominant?

43
Q

Scyphozoa

A

true jellyfish

44
Q

Are syphozoa polyp or medusa dominant?

45
Q

Anthozoa

A

corals, anemones

46
Q

Are anthozoa polyp or medusa dominant?

A

they only have polyp stages

47
Q

Cnidaria - mesoglea

A

noncellular, gelatin layer

48
Q

Epidermis

A

outer germ layer with cnidocytes

49
Q

Gastrodermis

A

inner cell lining of the gastrovascular cavity

50
Q

How do cnidaria protect themselves?

A

with nematocysts within cnidocytes

51
Q

Nematocysts

A

specialized stinging cells

52
Q

cnidocytes

A

hold nematocysts

53
Q

Are cnidaria monoecious or dioecious?

54
Q

Where are the gonads formed in cnidaria?

A

gastrodermis

55
Q

Cnidaria -What is the hair-like trigger for the nematocysts?

56
Q

Planula

A

free swimming larvae

57
Q

How does a planula polyp become a medusa?

A

By strobilation

58
Q

How does water flow through porifera?

A

Through the ostia, out through the spongocoel, then out through the osculum

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