Lecture 16 Parazoa Flashcards
What dose the root word Para mean?
Beside
What dose the root word zoo/zoa mean?
Animal
What is unique about Parazoa?
They lack true tissues
What phylum do parazoa belong to?
Phylum Porifera
What is the other member that Parazo belong to?
Placozoa
What dose the root word -plac- mean?
Flat
until recntly the Phylum Placozoa only had one spp. what was it?
Trichoplax ashaerens
How did the trichoplax ashaeren move around and eat?
It moved around through the use of cilia
and externally digested its food
What dose the root word Por mean?
Pore
what dose the root word -fer- mean?
To bear
What is the most well known member of the phylum Proifera?
Sponges
What is the mode of transport for Phylum Proifera?
They are sissile
What is the morphology of Proifera?
Their structure comes from spicules that are calcarious or silicious
what is Spongin?
A tough collagen-protien network for support in Proifera
What are the two main types of cell within Proifera?
They can be amoebocytes
or
Choanocytes
What is the defining feature of Choanocytes?
They have one or more large openings called osculum
What dose the root word -osculum- mean?
little mouth
What is mesohyl?
A gelatinous acellular layer between the outer skin and the choanocyte layer in Proifera
Can a acelluar substance be a tissue?
No
How do the vast majority of Proifera feed?
Through suspension feeding
What happens to the food particles once they enter the Porifera?
It becomes phagocytosed
do Porifera have sexes?
They have seperate sexes. although some are Hermaphroditic.
What is a simultaneous hermaphrodite?
An animal that is both sexes as once
What is a sequential hermaphrodite?
An animal that starts out as once sex than changes to another
Within Porifera what happens to the zyote?
It is retained until it develops into a ciliated larva
what happens once the Porifera has ciliated cells?
It reabsorbs them and grows a flagella