Platyhelminthes Flashcards
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Philodina
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phylum: Rotifera
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What are synapomorphies of phylum Rotifera?
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corona: called wheels cause of its cilia crow. cilia moves in sequence to make it appear to turning, which creates a water current to bring food into their pharynx
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What are some descriptions of phylum Rotifera:
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-marine, freshwater
-primarily filter feeders
-mastax does chemical digestion
-pedal glands: secrete glue to stick to substrate
-can elongate their body quite a bit
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What are the synamorphies of Phylum Acanthocephala?
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- endoparasites
- Proboscis
- use to attach to their host
- backward facing spines
- similar to scolex in tapeworms
- one unified body
- tape worms have proglottids
- mass reproduction of eggs
- digestive tract outside
- crypts: canals of the outside surface
- similar to microtriches of tapeworms
- crypts: canals of the outside surface
- Lacunar System
- canal on the outer skin
- absorb nutrients and carry it around the body
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Describe the morphology of thorny headed worms
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proboscis has hooks that attach to the host’s intestinal wall
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How do acanthocephalans reproduce?
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- vertebrate and invertebrate hosts
- rarely species specific
- indeterminate host: generally omnivorous invertebrate species such as a cockroach
- definitive host: omnivorous vertebrate like a pig, human, or rat
- passed through the feces of the definitive host and eaten by the indeterminate host
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Polymorphus
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- phyum: acanthocephala
- eider duck worm
- definititve host: eider duck
- indeterminate host: gammarus (shirmp)
- are sensitive to the smell of an eider duck
- makes it attracted to the eider duck, makes it more pink in color (increases pigment) , changes mating to hold things tight together
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Macramthorhynchus
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- phylum: acantheocephala
- giant horny worm of swines/pigs
- defintitive: pig
- intermediate: beetles
- over three ft long
- also infects in humans due to close proximation with the beetles
- accidental host
- middle east, parts of africa & india
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Pseudocerus
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- phylum: plathelyminthes
- class: tuberilla
- marine
- fake horn
- includes concentration of auricles: ocelli, statocyst, and rheoceptors
- endolethical eggs
- polyclad tubellarian
- apostomatic colors for toxicity
- copied by other creatures
- batesian mimicry
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Bipallum
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- phylum: plathelminthes
- class: tuberllaria
- terrestrial
- hammer head worm
- uses it for sensing, hunting for earthworms
- specialized neurotoxin: tetrodotoxin
- made by bacteria that lives in the animals, which secretes the neurotoxin
- comes over from asia
- eating earthworms in America
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Leucocholridium
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- phylum: plathelminthes
- class: tubellaria
- parasitic
- brood sac parasite
- 2 host parasite
- invertebrate snail host
- vertebrate host that is usually a bird
- causes the snail to not know the difference between light and dark
- wanders into open areas
- larva form starts pulsing when in contact with sunlight
- 2 host parasite
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Dugesia
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- phylum: platyhelminthes
- class: turbellaria
- planaria/planarian worm
- freshwater
- genome sequenced
- used in devoplemental biology to see how a single cell grows into a complete organism
- incredibly regenerative
- neoblasts
- totipotent: all powerful
- stem cells
- can differentiate any cell of the body due to them scattered throught out the body
- neoblasts
- auricles:ocelli, statocyst, rheorecptors
- stomach and pharynx in the middle
- triclade
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Clonorchis sinesis
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- phylum: plathelminthes
- class: trematoda
- subclass: digenea
- chinese liver fluke
- fish
- ingesting metercercaie of the egg
- live in the bioducts of the human liver
- flat & leaf like for surface area
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Fasciola Hepatica
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- phylum: platyhelminthes
- class: trematoda
- subclass: digenea
- sheep river fluke
- infected through eating aquatic vegetation
- live on the liver
- cystorosis
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Schistosoma Mansoni
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- phylum:platyhelminthes
- class: trematoda
- subclass: digena
- burrows directly into you because it wants to get into the circulatory system
- dioecious
- male is larger, canoe shaped that the female goes in to
- release eggs through the circulatory system
- body will make a tumor around the cell
- damage primarily done by immune response to eggs
- blood flukes
- cuddle buds
- africa
