Lesson 5b. Phylum Porifera Flashcards
Origin of metazoan
Sponges and placozoans
Evolution of eukaryotic cell followed by diversity
Evolution of Metazoa
Solitary or colonial aquatic eukaryotes, earliest known animal living
Choanoflagellates
What is the cell of choanoflagellates
Choanocyte
Each cell has a _____ surrounded by a collar of _____
Flagellum
Microvilli
It collects bacteria in choanoflagellates
Microvilli
Much debates whether _____ are ancestral of _______
Sponge choanocyte
Choanoflagellates
They are filter feeders
Sessile sponges
It means pore-bearing
Porifera
Sac-like bodies perforated by many pores
Porifera
What do porifera use to move in water
Flagellated collar cells or choanocytes
Approximately _____ species of sponges
15,000
Modern descendants of metazoa
Protozoa, plus multicellular animals
This are multicellular animals
Metazoans
Few live in ____, _____ in fresh water
Brackish water
150
_____ are free swimming, _____ always attached
Embryo
Adult sponges
Many live as ______ or _____ in or on sponges
Commensals
Parasites
Sponges may have an elaborate ______ and often have a ______
Skeletal structure
Noxious odor
Skeletal structure of a sponge can be ____and/or _____
Fibrous
Rigid
Rigid skeleton consists of _____ or ______
Calcareous (calcium bicarbonate)
Siliceous spicules (silicon)
Body opening consist of small incurrent ____ or _____
Pores
Dermal ostia
Flagellated collar cells
Choanocytes
It is directed past the choanocytes where food particles are collected
Water
Keep the current flowing by beating of _____
Flagella
3 Types of Canal system
Asconoid
Syconoids
Leuconoids
This the the flagellated spongocoels
Asconoids
A canal that has the simplest body form with small and tube shaped body
Asconoids
Water enters a large cavity called
Spongocoel
All _____ are asconoids
Calcarea
Example of asconoid
Leucosolenia
Clathrina
This is the flagellated canals
Syconoids