Labs 6-11 Flashcards
What is a protozoan?
Animal-like protist; eukaryote!!
What are the basic characteristics of a protozoan?
Single-celled, heterotrophic, organelles instead of organs and tissue
Where are protozoans typically found?
Water; fresh and marine
What’s the function of the contractile vacuole?
It’s an organelle found in freshwater protozoans used to get rid of excess water
What are the 4 protozoan groups?
Excavata, alveolates, rhizarians, unikonta
What group does the Trypanosoma (African Sleep Sickness) belong to? hint: it’s a parasite
Excavata
What are the 2 subgroups of alveolates?
Ciliates and Apicomplexa
Name 2 defining factors of ciliates
They have cilias for movement and they have 2 nuclei
What is the function of the 2 nuclei in ciliates?
- Reproduction through binary fission 2. Metabolism and growth
What group and subgroup does paramecium belong to?
Alveolates, subgroup ciliates
Name 2 defining factors of apicomplexans
- Parasitic 2. No means of locomotion
What group and subgroup does Plasmodium (Malaria) belong to? Hint: Parasitic and no means of locomotion
Alveolates, subgroup apicomplexans
What group does Radiolarians belong to?
Rhizarians
Name 3 defining factors of rhizarians
- amoeboid 2. usually have silica skeletons 3. pseudopod radiating from silica shell.
What is the subgroup of unikonta called?
Tubulinids
What does tubulinids mean?
True amoeba
Name 4 defining factors of unikontas
- Pseudopod 2. Usually freshwater 3. Reproduce through binary fission 4. Obtains food through phagocytosis
What phylum do sponges belong to?
Phylum porifera
Name the 2 classes of phylum porifera (that are covered in 1625)
Class Calcarea and class demospongiae
What are the main characteristics of phylum porifera?
- Skeletons made of small, inorganic spicules 2. Surface covered in pores (ostia)
Name 3 characteristics of the class Calcarea
- Small (<1 in.) and slender 2. Found in shallow, marine water 3. Reproduce both sexually and asexually
What class do common bath sponges and fresh water sponges fall into?
Class demospongiae
Name the 4 characteristics of the Phylum Cnidaria
- Radial Symmetry 2. Digestive cavity 3. Some muscle tissue 4. Stinging cells - cnidocytes
What are the 2 forms of the Phylum cnidaria?
Polyp and Medusa (Medusozoa)
Name the 3 classes of Phylum Cnidaria (that are covered in 1625)
- Anthozoa 2. Hydrozoa 3. Scyphozoa
Which classes of Phylum Cnidaria contain medusazoa?
Hydrazoa and Scyphozoa
What classes of Phylum Cnidaria contain polyp form?
Anthozoa and Hydrozoa
What class does the organism Hydra belong to?
Hydrozoa
What class do the organisms anemones and coral belong to?
Anthozoa
What class do jellyfish belong to?
Scyphozoa
What is an acoelomate?
A solid bodies organism lacking a cavity between the gut and the outer body wall.
What is a pseudocoelomate?
An animal whose body cavity is lined by tissue derived from mesoderm and endoderm.
Name 5 characteristics of the Phylum Platyhelminthes
- Flat 2. Bilateral Symmetry 3. Distinct anterior and posterior ends 4. Well developed systems (circulatory, nervous, etc.) 5. Acoelomates
Name the 3 classes in Phylum Platyhelminthes
Turbellaria, Trematoda, Cestoda
Which class do planarians (flat worms) belong to?
Turbellaria
True or False: Turbellaria are only marine
False; they are mostly marine, but some are freshwater or live in moist habitats.
What class do flukes belong to?
Class Trematoda
Name 4 characteristics of Class Trematoda (Flukes)
- Internal parasites of vertebrates 2. Resistant to host’s enzymes 3. One or more ventral suckers 4. Large portion of the body occupied by reproductive organs and intestines.
What class do tapeworms belong to?
Class Cestoda
Name 2 characteristics of Class Cestoda
- Typically long and flat 2. Highly developed reproductive system
Name 3 characteristics of Phylum Rotifera
- Microscopic 2. Freshwater 3. Pseudocoelomates
Name the 7 characteristics of Phylum Nemotoda (Roundworms)
- Mostly freeliving parasites
- Long, cylindrical bodies that are tapered at both ends
- Bilateral symmetry
- Covered with a tough cuticle
- Definite organ system
- Lack of circulatory system
- Sexes separate
What Phylum do roundworms belong to?
Phylum Nemotoda
What is the head and the body of the tapeworm called?
Head: Scolex
Body: Proglottid
What does bivalva mean?
Two valves
What does Gastropoda mean?
Stomach foot
What does Cephalopoda mean?
Head foot
What does Polyplacophora mean?
many plates