The Invertebrates Flashcards
Kingdom Animalia (Metazoa) is composed of:
- Invertebrates
- Vertebrates
animals without backbone
invertebrates
animals with backbone
vertebrates
95-97% of species are
invertebrates
6 importance of invertebrates
- acts as pollinators
- acts as recyclers of nutrients
- acts as food
- acts as part of food webs
- maintenance of ecological communities
- source of pharmaceutical compounds
5 benefits of pollinators
- helps 75% of crops producing fruits and seeds to pollinate
- increase biodiversity
- increase food production
- provide micronutrient-rich foods
- maintain ecosystems
total number of invertebrate species
2163
total number of invertebrate families
375
total number of invertebrate orders
72
2 examples of edible invertebrates
- Lepidoptera
- Cicada
6 FDA Approved Marine Derived Pharmaceuticals
- Prialt
- Adcetris
- Cytosar-U
- Vira-A
- Eribulin
- Yondelis
prialt is for
pain
3 marine derived pharmaceuticals that is for cancer
- yondelis
- eribulin
- cytosar-u
vira-a is for
herpes simplex
adcetris is for
lymphoma
prialt is derived from
Conus Magus
pharmaceutical derived from sea squirt
Yondelis
3 pharmaceuticals derived from sponge
- eribulin
- vira-a
- cytosar-u
adcetris is derived from
wedge sea hare
invertebrate fossils, dating between ____ and ____ million years ago, were discovered in?
- 575
- 543
- Ediacara Hills of Australia & in Chengjiang, China
__-bodied fossils were first found in Chengjiang, China
soft
ediacaran fossils are also called
“vendobionts” or cnidarian-like
6 characteristics of the fossils in Chengjiang, China
- flat and plate-shaped
- segmented
- bilateral symmetry
- lived on the bottom of shallow seas
- made of soft tissues
- absorbed nutrients from the surrounding water
544 million years ago is the
Cambrian period
what happened during the Cambrian Period
- some animals had evolved shells, skeletons, and other hard body parts
- animals had acquired specialized cells, tissues, and organs
- ancestors of most modern animal phyla first appeared in the fossil record
best-known sites of Cambrian fossils
Burgess Shale of Canada
a huge radiation of marine animal life that included sponges, soft bodied arthropods and those with hard exoskeletons, the first chordates, worms, and trilobites
Cambrian Explosion
7 features of modern invertebrates that evolved during the Cambrian period
- Tissues & Organs
- Cephalization
- Coelom
- Symmetry
- Patterns of early development
- Segmentation
- Germ Layers
Animal Phylogeny
- Porifera (sponges)
- Cnidaria (cnidarians)
- Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
- Nematoda (roundworms)
- Annelida (annelids)
- Arthropoda (mollusks)
- Echinodermata (echinoderms)
- Chordata (humans)
major trends in invertebrate evolution
- features of the body plan change over time, leading to the formation of many new traits
body plan of sponges:
germ layers -
body symmetry -
cephalization -
coelom -
early development -
all are absent;
early development is undefined
body plan of cnidarians:
germ layers -
body symmetry -
cephalization -
coelom -
early development -
germ layers - two
body symmetry - radial
cephalization & coelom - absent
early development - undefined
body plan of flatworms:
germ layers -
body symmetry -
cephalization -
coelom -
early development -
germ layers - three
body symmetry - bilateral
cephalization - present
coelom - absent
early development - protostome
body plan of roundworms:
germ layers -
body symmetry -
cephalization -
coelom -
early development -
germ layers - three
body symmetry - bilateral
cephalization - present
coelom - pseudocoelom
early development - protostome
difference in the body plan of flatworms and roundworms
coelom is absent in flatworms but roundworms are classified as having pseudocoelom
body plan of annelids, mollusks, & arthropods:
germ layers -
body symmetry -
cephalization -
coelom -
early development -
germ layers - three
body symmetry - bilateral
cephalization - present
coelom - true coelom
early development - protostome
body plan of echinoderms:
germ layers -
body symmetry -
cephalization -
coelom -
early development -
germ layers - three
body symmetry - radial (adults)
cephalization - absent (adults)
coelom - true coelom
early development - deuterostome
diploblastic =
ectoderm
non-living layer
endoderm
digestive cavity
triploblastic =
ectoderm
mesoderm
endoderm
digestive cavity
what simple animals have one germ layer and lack true tissue organization
sea sponges
4 examples of diploblastic animals
- jellyfish
- comb jellies
- corals
- sea anemones
example of complex invertebrates that are triploblastic
flatworms to echinoderms
all invertebrates except ____ exhibit body symmetry
sponges
symmetry wherein body parts are arranged around a center point
radial symmetry
symmetry wherein arrangement of body parts along a central line or plane
bilateral symmetry
any cut through the central point in radial symmetry results in
identical halves
characteristics of radial symmetry
- no head, front, back
- oral surface and an aboral surface
animals exhibiting bilateral symmetry
- worms
- mollusks
- arthropods
importance of cephalization in invertebrates
they can respond to the environment in more sophisticated ways than simple invertebrates
in most worms and arthropods, nerve cells are arranged in structures called _____
ganglia
in complex invertebrates, nerve cells form an organ called ____
brain
group of invertebrate animals exhibiting a high degree of cephalization
cephalopods
it allows for compartmentalization of the body parts
coelom
importance of coelom
so different organ systems can evolve and nutrient transport is possible