Lecture 14 Flashcards
In which domain are animals located in?
Eukarya
What does Metazoa mean?
“Later animals”
What are the shared derived traits of animals?
Heterotrophic-Sexual Reproduction-Multicellularity-Movement (at least some point in their lifetime)
What group of organisms do all animals share a common ancestor with?
Choanoflagellates
Are choanoflagellates bacteria, eukaryotes, or protists?
Protists
Many choanoflagellates are _____.
Colonial
How do some specific choanoflagellates feed?
Sponges filter feed through choanocytes; choanocytes are also present in other modern animals.
Define Sponges
Matrix of cells that allow for choanocytes to sit in.
Which of the group of animals are considered the simplest animals; what do they lack?
Poriferans; they lack tissues.
What are some key characteristics of sponges?
They are asymmetrical, sessile, and not plants. (They are animals)
In what manner, that is considered atypical, are the cells in poriferans organized?
They are not organized into tissues.
What do Amoebacytes do in Poriferans?
They move freely around the body of the sponge and can divide essentially into whatever they want.
What are the three major body plans in animals?
No symmetry; radial symmetry; bilateral symmetry.
What does Radial Symmetry mean?
It doesn’t matter how the body is cut; the body plan is laid out in a circle.
What does bilateral symmetry mean?
Only one way to cut the body in half to have two equal halves.
What are Eumetazoans? What is a characteristic they have that is different than sponges?
Eumetazoans are all the other animals besides sponges; they have tissues.
What are the tissues that are present in Eumetazoans?
Nervous-Epithelial-Muscle-Connective MENC
What are some examples of Cnidarians?
Jellyfish and Corals.
How do Cnidarians move?
They use tissues to coordinate their movement.
What parts of the cnidarians are sessile and motile respectively?
They have a sessile polyp (the polyp can move to get prey or to move away); they have a motile medusa.