Porifera Flashcards
“<div style=""><b>What are the two types of ““Skeletons”” in Porifera and what are they made of?</b></div>”
“<div style="">Spongin=spongocytes(made by) protein, acts as endoskelton, shape,</div><div style=""><br></br>Some 10% have collogen ““skeletons”” instead made bycollencytes<br></br><br></br>Spongin=spongocytes<br></br>collogen =<span>collencytes<br></br></span><br></br></div>”
“<b>What is the gelantinous material that houses specalised cells in Porifera called?</b>”
“Mesophyl”
“<b>What is a spongocoel?</b>”
“Sponges are a hollow cylinder with a large central cavity called thespongocoel.”
“<b>Which body canal in sponges has no spongeocel?</b>”
Luceonoid
“<b>What porifera cell can differentiate into gametes?</b>”
Ambeocytes
“<b>When a leuconoid sponge has a small exit canal, it also doesn’t have…?</b>”
has no spongeocel
“<b>Are Porifera sequential hermaprodites?</b>”
“yes<br></br><br></br>(sometimes<span>♂ or</span>♀)w/o self fertilization”
“<b>Do porifera have reproductive organs?</b>”
no official repoduction structures
“<b>gonochorism</b>”
sequential hermpahrodites, distinct sexes when gametes are differentiated by choanocyes/ameoboyctes<br></br><div><br></br></div>
“<b>Describe Porifera (11 traits)<br></br><br></br></b>repoduction<br></br>tissues<br></br>body type<br></br>feeding<br></br>symmetry<br></br>defenses<br></br>embyrotic development<br></br>cells”
“<ul><li>highly specialised cells in mesophyl jelly</li><li>simple, multicellular w/o true tissues</li><li>mostly sequentially hermaphroditic & asexual</li><li>have spongocel (central cavity for feeding) <b>(acoelomate)</b></li><li>suspension feeding - food directly into cell & excrete out</li><li>asymmetrical</li><li>1 germ layer (neither diplo- nor triploblastic)</li><li>use chemical defenses</li><li>no mouth or anus (neither protosome or dueterosome)</li><li>have sessile to attach to substrate</li><li>All life processes w/o tissues or organs, cells act as organs</li></ul>”
“<b>Describe the morphology of Porifera</b>”
“Epidermis: Comprise of pinacocytes (line exterior of sponge)<br></br>Mesophyl: houses specalised cells, gelantinous<br></br>Spicules: calcium carbonate, deter predators, arragnement = species<br></br>Ostias: pores allow water to enter<br></br>Osculum: opening at the top of spongocel<br></br><br></br><u><b>""Skeleton""</b></u><br></br>Spongin - protein, acts as endoskelton, shape, made by spongocytes<br></br>Some Porifera have collogen ““skeletons”” instead made bycollencytes<br></br><br></br><b><u>Cells: </u></b><br></br>Choanocyte: flaggelated food trapped in filter feeding<br></br>Ambeobocyte: excretion, can become gametes, repoduction, digest food<br></br>Pinacocytes: make up the epidermis, line exterior of sponge”
“<b>How do choanocytes in Porifera funciton?</b>”
“<div style="">Filter feeding</div><ul><li style="">Flagellated</li><li style="">beat to draw water into ostia pores through to the spongocoel</li><li style="">Food partciles get trapped and digested in ambeocytes</li><li style="">excreted out the osculum</li></ul>”
“<b>What are Amoebocytes cells?<br></br></b><img></img>”
“<b>Totipotet</b> - can change function from excretion, repoduction, digestion, secretion of spongin and spicules<br></br>”
“<b>What aresclerocytes in Porifera?</b>”
cells that secrete spicules that deter predators
“<b>What are the 3 different canal systems in sponges?</b>”
“<b>Asconoid </b>(simplest) -<br></br> no thickness/folds (limits feeding)<br></br> no flagellated chambers<br></br><img></img><br></br><br></br><br></br><b>Synconoid</b> (moderate)<br></br> thicker (better ability to filter food)<br></br> have some flagellated chambers<br></br><img></img><br></br><br></br><b>Leuconoid</b> (most complex)<br></br> more common<br></br> very thick (increased surface area for increased feeding)<br></br> small exit canal = NO SPONGOCEL<br></br> many flagellated chambers<br></br><img></img><br></br>”
“<i>gonochorism</i>”
“sequential hermaphrodites, distinct sexes when gametes are differentiated by choanocyes/ameoboyctes<br></br><div style=""><br></br></div>”