Theme 2 Phylum Clasification Flashcards
How are organisms classified (by what characteristics)
Genetics
Morphology
Physiology
Behaviour
Heritable traits
What is a clade
A monophyletic group made of a taxa with a unique common ancestor
They are share synapomorphies
What is a synapomorphy
Shared derived characters
What is a taxa
A level in a systematic heirachy
What is the order of linens classification
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
What did the ancestral colonial protist in animal phylogeny split into
Basal phyla and bilaterians
What organisms are included in the basal phyla
Ctenophores
Sponges
Placozoans
Cnidarians
What is included in the bilaterians group
Acoela, protostomes, deuterostomes
What is included in deuterostomes
Ambulacra (sea urchins, sea stars)
Chordates
What is included in protosomes
Lophotrochozoans
Ecdysozoans
What does bilaterians mean
Bilateral symmetry
What do ctenophores, placozoans and cnidarian have in common
They have radial symmetry, and are diploblastic (have 2 germ layers ecto and endoderm)
What is the blastopore in protostomes
The mouth
What is the blastopore in deuterostomes
Anus
What are protostomes and deuterostomes (in terms of blastics)
Triploblastic (three germ layers)
Endo meso and ectoderm