Quiz 1 Intro/Porifera Flashcards
compose the outside of a sponge
picanocytes
is made up of picanocytes
picanoderm
donut shaped cells
porocytes
hole going through porocytes
prosopyle
flagellated cells on the inside of the sponge
choanocytes
responsible for creating a water current in the sponge and for all the filter feeding, and become sperm
choanocytes
cell type which holds spicules, spongin, and/or mesohyl
amoebocytes and are totipotent (turn into anything else)
the smallest body type of sponges
asconoid
the second most complex body type for sponges
syconoid
the most complex body type for sponges
leuconoids
name of the hole in which through water enters a sponge
ostium
large central cavity in a sponge
spongocoel
hole at the top of the sponge through which water exits
osculum
order of water flow in asconoids
ostium > spongocoel > osculum
order of water flow in syconoids
ostium > incurrent canal > prosopyle > radial canal > apopyle > spongocoel > osculum