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Sponges Flashcards

1
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Are sponges unicellular or multicellular?

A

Multicellular

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2
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What are sponges?

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Colonies of feeding cells

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3
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Most habitats that sponges are found in are…

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Marine

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4
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T/F: Some sponges can be found in some freshwater habitats

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True!

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5
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What is feeding mode?

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Active filtering using cilia to create water flow (through filter pumps)

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6
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What is growth form?

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Upright or encrusted on solid substrates

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7
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Sponges’ phylum is called what?

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Porifera

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8
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Are sponges true animals?

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Sort of. They are known as Parazoa while all other animals are referred to as Eumetazoa

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9
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T/F: Sponges have organs, sensory systems and tissues

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False! They have none of these

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10
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Sponges have ___________ cells

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Specialized

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11
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T/F: Individual cells cannot survive independently

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False! They totally can

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12
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Sponges are considered as an _____________ link between colonial protozoans and the eumetazoans in regards to _________ structure and Ribosomal RNA ___________.

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  1. Evolutionary
  2. Physical
  3. Analysis
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13
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FITB: Fossils of sponges date back to the early __________ period

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Cambrian

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14
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T/F: Sponges have an intermediate stage in specialization, complexity, and functional anatomy

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True!

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15
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Sponges are built to create a ________ _____ through the body in order to filter food from the water

A

Water flow

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16
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What is food?

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Organic particles & living plankton within an appropriate size range

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17
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FITB: Mass of cells embedded in gelatinous __________ supported by rigid _______ and protein fibers (_______ and spongin)

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  1. Mesohyl
  2. Spicules
  3. Collagen
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18
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Pinacocytes are what type of cells?

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Skin

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19
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Choanocytes are filtering ________ cells

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Collar

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20
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Archaeocytes are ______ and have many __________

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  1. Ameboid
  2. Functions
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21
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Water enters through multiple ________

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Ostia

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22
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Ostia passes through porocytes and other canals to central spongocoel, and exits through ________

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Osculum

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23
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Water flow through sponges is driven by flagella of the __________ cells

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Choanocytes

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24
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What type of shape do sponges have?

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Spherical

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25
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Increasing complexity probably indicates…. ?

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Increasing filtering efficiency

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26
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The simplest type of sponge is called a __________

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Asconoid

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27
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The second simplest type of sponge is called a ________

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Synconoid

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28
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The most complex type of sponge is called a ____________

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Leuconoid

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29
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What type of symmetry do sponges have? (2 options)

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  1. Radial (cylindrical)
  2. Asymmetrical
30
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What body plans in sponges have radial symmetry?
Hint: A_______oid & Sy_______noid

A
  1. Asconoid
  2. Synconoid
31
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A sponge’s skeleton is made of ______ fibrils and ________

A
  1. Collagen
  2. Spicules
32
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T/F: Leuconoid “bath sponges” do not secrete a form of collagen traditionally known as spongin

A

False! They do!

33
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T/F: Leuconoid bath sponges have spicules

A

False! They do not

34
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T/F: Spicules are secreted by specialized cells in the mesohyl

35
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FITB: Spicules are made of ______ or _________ __________ depending on the species

A
  1. Silica
  2. Calcium Carbonate
36
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T/F: Spicules are not made of mineral material and are living

A

False; they are made of mineral material and they are non-living

37
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Choanocytes are _______ collar cells

A

Flagellated

38
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T/F: Choanocytes are structurally and genetically similar to choanoflagellate protozoans

39
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What are Pinacocytes?

A

Epithelial-like cells on exterior and some interior surfaces; some are contractile

40
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Archeocytes are what?

A

Amoeboid cells in the mesohyl; ingest food; can differentiate into other cell types

41
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Sclerocyte cells secrete what non-living structure?

42
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Spongocyte cells secrete what material?

43
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Collencytes secrete what?

44
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TOT: In digestion intracellular processes, collar cells take in/get rid of food to food vacuoles

45
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Respiration and excretion is done via what process?
Hint: Moving from a higher gradient to a lower gradient

46
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TOT: Contractile vacuoles present in archaeocytes and choanocytes are found in marine/freshwater sponges?

A

Freshwater

47
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What are the 2 types of asexual reproduction that occur in sponges called?
1. ______ formation
2. _________ followed by regeneration

A
  1. Bud
  2. Fragmentation
48
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What are the 2 types of buds called?
1. _________ buds
2. _________ (also known as internal buds)

A
  1. External
  2. Gemmules
49
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What are the 2 main functions of a gemmule?

A
  1. Resistant life stage with a protective covering
  2. Can survive through adverse environmental conditions
50
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Are most sponges monoecious or dioecious?

A

Monoecious (everything in 1 house)

51
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What does monoecious mean?

A

Sponges that have both male and female sex cells in one individual

52
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T/F: Sperm cells are not transformed choanocytes

A

False; they are!

53
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What are Oocytes?

54
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T/F: Oocyte egg cell origins vary among species

55
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What method is used for sexual reproduction for sponges (typically)?

A

Broadcast Fertilization

56
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Broadcast fertilization occurs when most species take in _______ from exterior and fertilize internally, larva hatches internally

57
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T/F: Other species broadcast (sexually reproduce) through both sperm and oocytes

58
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Zygotes (fertilized egg cells) hatch into parenchymula (solid-bodied _______), which swims and settles elsewhere

59
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Inversion sexual reproduction: After fertilization, hollow ___________ forms, then inverts to become amphiblastula

60
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What are the 3 main classes of sponges?

A
  1. Calcarea
  2. Hexactinellida
  3. Demospongiae
61
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Out of the 3 main types of sponges, which one is the most diverse?
A. Calcarea
B. Hexactinellida
C. Demospongiae

62
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T/F: Demospongiae have calcium carbonate

63
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T/F: Demospongiae have silicious spicules, spongin, or both

64
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Demospongiae includes the only family of marine/freshwater sponges?

A

Freshwater; however most Demospongiae are marine

65
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T/F: The Leuconoid canal system is found in the Demospongiae group and is very diverse in many ways

66
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Calcarea have calcareous _________

67
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T/F: The Class Calcarea includes species with asconoid, syconoid, and leuconoid canal systems

68
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T/F: The Class Calcarea are the only extant (opposite of extinct) class with the asconoid canal system

69
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T/F: The Class Hexactinellida is not structurally different from the other two classes

70
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Is the Class Hexactinellida six-rayed siliceous spicules fused into a rigid structure flexible/not flexible?

A

Not flexible

71
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The Class Hexactinellida body consists of a continuous _______ tissue, with other cell types enclosed

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