Sponges And Acoelomates Flashcards

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Cladorhizids

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A canivorous family of demospongia

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2
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Choanoblasts

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Multiple collar bodies/flagella associated with a single nucleus

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3
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Syncytial

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An epithelium or tissue characterized by cytoplasmic continuity, or a large mass of cytoplasm not separated into individual cells and containing many nuclei.

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4
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Trabecular reticulum

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Forms an extremely thin giant multinucleated cell that forms the outer skin (called the dermal membrane), and acts like a nervous system, conveying impulses to all parts of the body

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5
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Sclerocytes

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secrete spicules

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6
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Cephalisation

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Sense organs concentrated in head

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7
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Pelagic

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Inhabit the upper layers of the sea

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8
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Neodermis

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External cuticle like body covering in platyhelminthes

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9
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Proteolytic enzymes

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Extracellular digestive enzyme secreted in platyhelminthes intestine

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10
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Proboscis

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Can be thrusted outwards to quickly grasp prey in nemertea

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11
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Rhynchocoel

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Houses probiscis. A coelem

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12
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Gravid proglottid

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Mature proglottid. Houses about 80 to 100, 000 eggs.

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13
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Spongocytes

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Secrete spongin

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14
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Collencytes

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Secrete collagen

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15
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Flame cells

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Part of the excretory system

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16
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Nemertea

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Ribbon worms, proboscis worms

17
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Taenia Solium

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Pork Tapeworm

18
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Cysticerci

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Young tape worms

19
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Cysticercosis

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Cysticercosis is a parasitic tissue infection caused by larval cysts of the tapeworm Taenia solium

20
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Taenia sagina

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Beef tape worm

21
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Oncosphere larvae

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Hatched from gravid proglottid egg burrow into intestinal wall of cow and carried to muscle

22
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Cysticerus stage

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Bladder worm. Scolex is inverted in a sac

23
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Microtrioches

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Projections on the outside of cestoda, like microvilli, increase absorption of food.

24
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Prohaptor and opisthaptor

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Structure in monogenea used for attachment to fish gills and feeding

25
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Schistosome dermatitis other name and description

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Cercarial dermatitis and Inflammory response caused by a cercariae seeking a bird that entered the human skin. Swimmer’s itch

26
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Blood fluke

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Schistosoma mansoni

27
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Miracidium larvae

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Trematoda - Hatches inside a snail from egg

28
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Sporocyst

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Develops from miracidium larvae

29
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Rediae

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Produced asexually from sporocysts

30
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Cercariae

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Produced from redia

31
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Metacercarial cysts

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Produced from cercarciae boring into fish and encyst in muscle tissue

32
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Metacercariae

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Hatch from cercariae in metacercarie cysts

33
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Clonorchis Sinensis

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Chinese liver fluke

34
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Copulatory groove

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Blood flukes, male have and females slide in

35
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Rheoreceptors

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Sense direction of water

36
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Protonephridia

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Flame cells

37
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Weirs

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Tube around flame cells