Lesson 5d. Bilateral Acoelomates Flashcards
Animals that seek food, shelter, home sites, and nates require a different set of strategies and radially symmetrical sessile
Phylum platyhelminthes: flatworms
An evolution that has concentrating sense organs in the head region
Cephalization
Evolution that says it is divided along only 1 plane of symmetry to yield 2 mirror image
Bilateral symmetry
Only one internal space, the digestive cavity, without coelom
Acoelomates
Have 3 germ layers (endoderm, ectoderm, mesoderm)
Triploblastic
The blastopore becomes the mouth
Protostomes
It has one opening
Incomplete gut
Mm to m in length, some free living, others parasitic
Phylum platyhelminthes
3 class of platyhelminthes
Class trematoda, cestoda, turbellaria
Free living forms, most are bottom dwellers in marine/freshwater
Class turbellaria
Found in streams, pool, and hot springs
Freshwater planarians
They are limited to moist places
Terrestrial flatworms
Most turbellaria have ____, ciliated ___ on the basement membrane
Cellular
Epidermis
Most turbellarians have ______
Dual-gland adhesive organs
Fasten microvilli of other cells to substrate
Viscid gland cells
Secretion of ___ provides a quick chemical detachment
Gland cells
Carnivorous and detect food by chemoreceptors
Planaria
Wrap themselves around prey and extend the pharynx to suck up food
Planaria
Feed on host cells, cellular debris, and body flyids
Trematodes (parasitic flukes)
Rely on hosts digestive tract and absorb digested nutrients
Cestodes(tapeworm)
Flatworms have a kidney called____, used for osmoregulation
Protonephridia
It resembles nerve net of cnidarians
Subepidermal nerve plexus
Bilobed cerebral ganglion (mass of nerve cells) anterior to the ventral nerve cords
Brain
Sense organ: present in turbellarians, and larval trematodes, light-sensitive eyespots
Ocelli
Sense organ: abundant
Tactile and chemoreceptive cells
Sense organ: equilibrium and sense of direction of water current
Statocysts and rheoreceptors
Many turbellarians constrict behind the pharynx and separate into two animals, each half regenerates the missing part
Fission
If tail/head are cut off, each grows the missing parts; it retains polarity
Regeneration