TEST 1 Flashcards
What are the what are the four classes of Cnidarians?
Anthozoans
Hydrozoans
Scyphozoa
Cubozoa
What are the two subclasses of anthozoans?
Hexacorallia and octocorals
Which class of cnidarian only has a polyp form?
Anthozoans
Corals and anemones belong to which class of which phylum
Phylum cnidarian, class anthozoan
How are to two subclasses of anthozoans different in terms of symmetry?
Hexacorallia - 6 part symmetry
Octocoralia - 8 part symmetry
Which subclass of anthozoan do the stony corals belong to? How about soft corals?
Stony corals = hexacorallia
Soft corals = octocorallia
What is the ecological importance of anthozoans?
Dinoflagellates + symbiotic relationship Biodiversity hot spot - 25% marine life 3D habitat Food for other animals Shelter Mutualism w anemones
Explain a symbiotic relationship that corals (class anthozoan) have with dinoflagellates
Dinos = photosynthetic
Provide food for corals
How does coral bleaching involve dinoflagellates?
When corals under stress, dinos get ejected from corals and corals lose their food source
Explain how other animals have mutualism with anemones (class anthozoan)
Mucus on fish so their can live in anemones (finding nemo)
Crabs that put anemones on the backs of their shell for extra protection
Ex. Boxer crabs
Gorgonian corals come from with subclass of anthozoans? What is a property they have that makes them a soft coral?
Subclass octocorallia
Proteinaceous bodies with calcareous spicules in their mesoglea endoskeleton
What class do the siphonophores belong to?
Class hydrozoans
Some hydrozoans are more dominantly medusa form, some are more dominantly polyp form… this makes them what type of group?
Disparate group
Freshwater cnidarians belong to what group?
Hydrozoans
What is an example of a hydrozoan that is fresh water nad exclusively polyp form?
Hydra
What is an example of a medusa form cnidarian in the hydrozoan class that is found off the coast of NS?
Aequorea victoria
Siophonophores are usually found where? Are they independent animals or do they live in colonies?
Deep sea
Colonial animals
Do hydrozoans tend to live by themselves or in colonies?
Colomies
Some parts lf a hydrozoan are meant for swimming, while other parts are meant for food capture, while other parts are meant for eating… hydrozoans have what ?
Polymorphism
What class are the true jellies in?
Class scyphozoa
Name everything you can about the scyphozoa class of cnidarians
Dieocious (separate sexes)
Large oral lobes extend from mouth
Strobilation and reproduction (scyphistoma —> stack of strobila —> ephyra (tiny jellies, flower shape) —> big true jellies with either male of female sex
Explain the strobilation and reproduction of class scyphozoa (true jellies)
Larvae settle anywhere and then become
- schyphistoma
- duplicate through mitosis - Stack of strobila (jelly stack)
- break off + mature + grow bigger - Ephyra - tiny baby flower shaped jellies, either female or male
What class would a species that looks like a jelly, is dominantly in the medusa form, has tentacles on each corner of its face and has an eye that can sometimes be image forming?
Class cubozoa
Manh cnidarians exhibit 2 body forms… this means what?
They have polyps and medusa forms
Is a cnidocyte a cell or an organelle? What about a cnidae?
Cnidocyte = cell Cnidae = organelle
What is the fourth big spit?
Phylum ctenophora
What are ctenes?
They are comb rows of cilia that comb jellies, in phylum ctenophora, have
How many ctenes do comb jellies have?
8 ctenes
What type of symmetry do ctenophora have? How about cnidarians?
Ctenophora = bi radial symmetry
Cnidarians = radial symmetry
Ctenophora have colloblast cells on their tentacles… why?
To help with food capture because they’re sticky / adhesive
What type of ctenophore decimated a black sea ecosystem in the 90s?
A mnemiopsis ctenophore
How many ctenes to ctenophores have? How do they swim / move?
8 ctenes
Swim mouth forward, move via beating cilia
Largest animal to move via cilia
What are the two forms or ctenophores and how do they differ?
Mnemiopsis - eats plankton and things in water column via colloblasts on tentacles
Beroe form - eats other ctenophores, doesn’t have colloblasts, just has a giant mouth
Where does the colour in ctenophores cmoe from? Shy are the deep sea sepcies red?
Light refracts off the tightly packed ctenes / comb rows
Red so predators can’t see them, red is the first colour to disappear in the deep sea
What are the four classes of poifera?
Class calcarea
Class homoscleromorpha
Class hexactinellids
Class demospongiae
Which class and which phylum has spicules made of calcium carbonate and has examples of all 3 canal systems?
Phylum poifera
Class calcarea
What class of poifera is the newest class that was named in 2012 and used to be classified under demospongiae?
Class homoscleromorpha
What kind of spicules does class homoscleromorpha of phylum poifera have?
Spicules that are all the same form
Which class of poifera have 6 rayed silica spicules that make a glass lattice?
Class hexactinellida
What class do 80% of sponges come from?
Demospongiae
Where do freshwater sponges classify?
Demospongiae
What body form do sponges in class demospongiae usually have?
Leuconoid body form
How do poiferas feed?
Intracellular digestion (phagocytosis)
Flagellated collar cells help them get food
Carnivorous sponges don’t have choanocytes, they have tiny hooks that help catch prey
Do poiferas have sexual or asexual preproduction
Both
How do poiferas sexually reproduce
Sperm comes from choanocytes that release into water column —> another sponges takes them up
Eggs / oocytes come from archaocytes
How do sponges asexually reproduce?
Via budding fragmentation or dormant gemmules
Why are dormant gemmules are good type of reproduction for freshwater sponges?
They have variable living conditions
Gemmules stay dormant until conditions are right, then the wake up and germinate
What are dormant gemmules?
Type of asexual reproduction for poiferas
Internal buds packed with archeocytes (where eggs come from), surrounded by thick layer of spicules
What are symbioses that we see with poiferas?
Microbial
- green algae and photosynthesis
- Nutrient cycling
Humans + sponges
- first food item harvested from ocean
- Medications and pharmaceuticals
- fibre optics - technology and industry
What is a flat animal but is multicellular, was thought to be made of only one species (the trichlplax adhaerons). Has cilia, no body cavity and has 5-6 body cells? What phylum?
Phylum placozoa
What are the two body forms of cnidarians?
Polyp and medusa
What are the unique stinging cells that cnidarians have called?
Cnidocyte
What is the jelly layer in cnidarians called?
Mesoglea
How many classes of cnidarians are there? Can you name them all?
5 classes
- anthozoans
- hydrozoans
- Scyphozoa (true jellies)
- cubozoa
- staurozoa (didn’t talk about them though)
Cnidarians made two big evolutionary jumps… what were they?
They have tissues and radial symmetry!
What level of organization do cnidarians have?
Cells that carry -out functions
Don’t have organs yet
Why are cnidarians considered dipoblastic?
Because they have tissues
How did the cnidarians become dipoblastic?
Cells made hollow ball which underwent gastrolation
Hollow ball ivaginated
Diffrentiated into endoderm (gut) and ectoderm (skin)
What kind of symmetry to cnidarians have?
Radial
What dipoblastic properties do cnidsrians have? Name each tissue layer / body cavity
Endoderm = gastrodermis / gut
Ectoderm = epidermis / skin
Mesoglea = jelly NOT TISSUE
Gastrovascular cavity
What is the diffrence between the medusa and polyp form of cnidarians?
Polyp = sessile, anemone form
Medusa = swimming, jellyfish form, use contractions to swim
The Portuguese man-o-war is a great example of what…
Polyp form cnidarian of class hydrozoan
How to the cnidarains exhibit polymorphism/ polyp form?
All the polyps are genetically identical but can carry out different functions = polymorphism
Ex. Portuguese man-o-war
How do cnidarians reproduce?
Alternating generations between polyp and medusa forms
Polyps asexually make baby medusas which are sexually reproducing
How do medusa forms of cnidarians reproduceto make new polyps
Hint - planula
Make sperm and egg through meiosis
Gametes make PLANULA - these settle and make new polyps
How cnidarians move? Do they have muscles like us?
Epitheliamuscular cells in their tissue which has nerves
nerve nets / mesh of nerves in tissue that signals contractions
Explain how the cnidocyte, the cnidae, the nemotocyst and the cnidocil work together
Cnidocyte is the stinging cell
Cnidae is an organelle/capsule in the cell containing the nematocyst
Nematocyst is an organelle w stinging venom
Cnidocil is a hair like trigger
Cnidae discharges nematocyst when anincrease of hydrostatic pressure is detected and nematocyst breaks off
97% of all named species are what?-
Invertebrates
What are the 5 major basal splits of animals groups
Porifera Placazoa Cnidarians Ctenophores Bilateria
Phylum porifera… do they have true tissues?
Nope, don’t have true embryonic tissues
Explain the aquiferous system of porifera / sponges
Oscula = out S[pongocoel = inside sponge, lined with collar cells Ostia = in
What is a choanocyte?
Sticky collar cell with flagellum
Line the spongecoel
Food capture, waste, move water efficiently
What are the the three types of cana; systems?
Asconoids
Synconoids
Leuconoids
What are the differences between the three types of canal systems
Asconoid = inside of cell lined with choanocytes, only in class calcarea
Synconoid = folded niner layers w collar cells lining the folds, only in class calcarea
Leuconoid - collar cells line inside chamber, msot sponges this form, all classes, icnreases SA + SIZE of sponge
Which canal system increases SA + size pf s[ponge by having the collar cells line the inside chambers?
Leuconoid
What two type of cells help make a sponge?
Choanocyte and archaeocytes
What are archaeocytes?
Totipotent cells in sponges, found in mesophyl of sponge (btw inner and outer sponge layer)
Can become many different types of cell (feeding, spicule making, spongin making, reproduction)
What are archaeocytes important for sponges?
Because they don’t have tissues, so they rely on these totipotent cells to provide different functions