Metazoa Flashcards
Metazoa
Animals
Characteristic of Metazoa all metazoans
Multi-cellularity
Eat food
Define: Polytomy
Multiple branches from 1 ancestor species
What do thick lines represent on a phylogeny
A fossil record
Define: Lysotroph
Food is broken down outside of body and absorbed. (Human digestion is considered out side of body)
Define: Phagotroph
digestion inside of body
Define: Analogous
Traits not inherited from common ancestor but evolved separately.
Characteristics of most metazoans
Sexual life cycle = diploid
Differentiated tissues
Gastrulation of embryo
T/F multicellularity evolved independently
True
What is the origin of multicellularity
Colonies
What is the closest single cell relative of Metazoans
Choanoflagellates
What is distinct about choanoflagellates
Sperm shaped w. similar flagella
T/F the common ancestor of Fungi and metazoans was unicellular
True
What are important genes for multicellularity
Cell signaling
Adhesion
Gene regulation
ECM - Makes proteins for tissues
What organism is similar to the the cell found on the posterior of a sponge
Choanoflagellates
What defines Cambrian Explosion
Explosion of speciation
What are important structures for organisms in the Cambrian explosion
Locomotion
Shells
Teeth
When did the first animals appear
during the Ediacarian period.