Practicle #4 Flashcards
Animalia
Apomorphies: diplontic life cycles, have collagen, chemoheterotrophs, multicellular with division of labor
Diplontic life cycle
Spend majority of their life cycle as diploid.
Collagen
Connective tissue.
Chemoheterotrophs
Digest other living things internally.
Porifera
Sponges
- sessile and benthic
- made up of cells embedded in mesohyal
- only “animal” with totipotent cells (change form and function throughout their cell cycles)
Apomorphies: aquiferous system, spicules
Spicules
Rigid structural materials
- embedded in mesohyl
- provide support/structure
- made of calcium carbonate, spongin, or silica
Aquiferous system
System of pores and canals that bring water through sponge (food, gas exchange, waste removal)
- ostia: draws water in
- oscula: expells water
Eumetazoa
All animals except sponges
Apomorphies: true tissues, cellular basement membrane, ectoderm and endoderm in embryonic development, gastrovascular cavity, beginnings of nervous system
Cnidaria
Jellies, sea anenomies, etc.
Many are diplontic with alteration of medusa and polyp generations
- polyp: sessile with tubular bodies
- medusa: pelagic with bell-shaped body
Apomorphies: radial symmetry, stinging sructures used to catch food and protection
Hydrozoa
Type of cnidaria
Apomorphies: alteraiton of generations occurs but one may be lacking, usually more conspicuous polyp
Scyphozoa
True jellyfish
Apomorphies: polyp stage usually reduced/absent and medusa dominant
Anthozoa
Sea anemones, sea pens, corals
Apomorphies: lack medusa stage, large calcium carbonate structures, symbiotic with zooxanthellae, sensitive to environmental change (coral bleaching – expel zooxanthellae and starve)
Ctenophora
Comb jellies
Apomorphies: radial symmetry, complete guts with mouth/anus, determinate cleavage
Determinate cleavage
Fate of cells after early 4 celled stage determined/specialized.
Bilateria
Animal lineages beyond porifer, cnidaria, ctenophora
Apomorphies: bilateral symmetry, cephalization, cerebral ganglion, triploblastic, radial cleavage in early development
Bilateral symmetry
Symmetry along the dorsal/ventral and posterior/anterior axes.
Cephalization
Formation of head region
Triploblastic
3 embryonic germ layers:
1) outer ectoderm
2) inner endoderm
3) middle mesoderm