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Porifera Flashcards

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What are Porifera known as? What does this mean?

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Cellular grade organization = no true tissue

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What symmetry are Porifera?

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Asymmetrical or radial symmetry

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What usually are Porifera cells? What does this mean?

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Totipotent = immature or stem cell which give rise to other types of cells

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What cells do Porifera have? 2 names

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Choanocytes = collar cells

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Explain the feeding habits between adults and larvae Porifera

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Adults = sessile suspension feeders 
Larvae = mobile
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Explain the outer and inner layers of the Porifera

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Both lack basement membrane

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Explain the middle layer of Porifera

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Mesohyl = is variable but always has motile cells and some skeletal material

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What are the 2 types of skeletal material in the middle layer of Porifera?

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1- calcium carbonate

2- silicon dioxide and/or collagen fibers

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Describe how water moves through a Porifera

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Water moves through epidermis into spongocoel, passes over collar cells/choanocytes and out through osculum

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What are archaeocyte cells of Porifera?

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Wandering amoeboid cells that differentiate into specialize cells when necessary

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What are the 2 types of cells that archaeocyte can differentiate into?

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1- sclerocyte cells = spicules (calcareous or siliceous)

2- spongocytes cells = spongin (collagenous protein)

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What other cells do archaeocytes develop into?

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Give rise to sperm and egg cells

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Explain the sponge structure of a Porifera

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3 levels of increased complexity occur through high degree of everting of the choanocyte layer away from the spongocoel

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What are the 3 levels of the sponge structure of a Porifera?

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1- asconoid
2- syconoid
3- leuconoid (most sponges)

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What is an example of a sponge that is 1 of the 3 levels for it’s sponge structure? What is special about it?

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Bath sponge = leuconoid

Skeleton is made of a soft protein called spongi rather than calcium

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What is the subphylum of Porifera?

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Cellularia

17
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What does that subphylum Cellularia have?

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All posses distinct choanocytes

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What are the 2 class of the subphylum Cellularia?

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1- Desmospongiae

2- Calcarea

19
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What types of sponge structure level are the class Desmospongiae?

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All leuconoid

20
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What do archaeocyte cell change into for the class Desmospongiae?

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Silica spicules (sclerocyte cells) and/or spongin support elements (spongocyte cells)

21
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What are the 5 families to know fo the class Desmospongiae?

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1- Clionidae
2- Spongiidae
3- Haliclona
4- Spongillidae
5- Cladorhizidae
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What is an example of the family Clionidae of the class Desmospongiae?

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Cliona boring sponges

23
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What does chemicals release from the the family Clionidae of the class Desmospongiae do? What happens? (Reef)

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Dissolve calcareous material = chips fall to seafloor = 40% of reef sediment in some places are made this way

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What are the Porifera of the family Spongiidae of the class Desmospongiae? 2 examples

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Commercial sponges
1- Spongia
2- Hippospongia

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What’s an example of the family Haliclona of the class Desmospongiae? Where are they found?

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Haliclona - shallow waters

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What’s an example of the family Spongilla of the class Desmospongiae? Where are they found?

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Spongilla - freshwater

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What’s an example of the family Cladorhizidae of the class Desmospongiae? Where are they found?

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Cladorhiza - deep sea

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What is different about the family Cladorhizidae of the class Desmospongiae? (Lack x2, eat)

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Lack choanocytes and water canal system

Probably carnivorous on small crustaceans

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Explain the class Calcarea (found, archaeocytes, sponge structure)

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All marine
Spicules of CaCO3 (sclerocyte cells)
Asconoid/syconoid/leuconoid levels

30
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What is one family to know for the class Calcarea?

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Grantidae

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What’s an example of the family Grantidae of the class Calcarea? Where are they found?

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Grantia (aka Scypha) - all marine intertidal to 2200m

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