Lecture 1 Flashcards
What are the qualities that make an animal animal
- mobile
- heterotrophics
- reproduce (usually sexually)
- multicellular
- abscence of cell wall
single-celled eukaryotes
protozoans
animal cell that have other cell covering other than the cell membrane
egg cell
animals that have no vertabral column (backbone)
invertebrates
percentage of invertebrates
97% our of 7.8 million animal species
what is the vertebral column for
structural support
structural support of invertebrates
- exoskeleton
- hydrostatic skeleton
How many phyla are there
36
group of individuals able to form a viable offspring
species
groups of multicellular animals
Metazoa
- cells are arranged in tissues
- true tissues
eumetazoa
Two group divisions under eumetazoa
- radiata
- bilateria
animals that can be divided into several identical halves when cut along the central axis
radiata
animals that can be divided into two identical halves along a single axis
bilateria
Two divisions under bilateria
- Deuterostomia
- Protostomia
first opening in the embryo becomes the mouth
protostomes