Specimen Slides

Question 1

Answer 1

Specimen: Grantia

Phylum: Porifera

Class: Sponges

Features: Spicules

Question 2

Answer 2

Specimen Hydra

Phylum Cnidaria

Polyp

Features: Polyp, Basil Disk, Tentacles w/ cnidoblasts

Mouth, Bud, and Spermary

Question 3

Answer 3

Specimen Obelia

Phylum Cnidaria

Colony of Polyps

Features: Colony, Reproductive Polyps

(produce medusae) and Feeding

Polyps (tentacles)

Question 4

Answer 4

Specimen Planaria

Phylum Platyhelminthes

Class Flatworms and Flukes

Features: Eyespots, Gastrovascular Cavity,

Pharynx/proboscis, and Mouth

Question 5

Answer 5

Specimen Chlonorchis

Phylum Platyhelminthes

Class Flatworms and Flukes

Features: Oral sucker, Ventral sucker, Intestines,

Uterus, and testes

Question 6

Answer 6

Specimen Taenia

Phylum Platyhelminthes

Class Tapeworm

Features: Scolex with hooks and suckers, Immature

proglottids, Mature proglottids with ovaries and

testes, Gravid proglottids with ova in uterus

Question 7

Answer 7

Specimen Trichinella

Phylum Nematoda

Class Roundworms

Features: Skeletal muscle, and Cyst wall

Question 8

Answer 8

Specimen: Lumbricus

Phylum: Annelida

Class: Earthworm

Features: Complete Gut, Typhlosole, Coelom, Intestine