Tree of Life Flashcards
2 branches Animalia divides into
Sponges and Eumetazoa
2 branches Eumetazoa divide into
Diploblasts and Bilateria
Diploblast Taxa
Cnidaria and Ctenophora
2 branches Bilateria divide into
Protostomes and Deuterostomes
2 branches Protostomes divide into
Lophotrochozoans and Ecydysozoans
Lophotrochozoan Taxa
Flatworms, Annelids, and Mollusks
Ecdysozoan Taxa
Nematodes and Arthropoda
Arthropoda Taxa
Myriapods, Chelicerates, Crustacea, and Hexapoda
Characteristics of Animals
heterotrophic, multicellular, internal digestion, movement
Characteristics of Sponges
sessile, heterotrophic, lack true tissues, choanocytes - flagellated feeding cells (evolutionary link between animals and choanoflagellate), spicules
Characteristics of Eumetazoans
body symmetry, gut and nervous system, tissues organized into organs
Dipoblasts
radial symmetry
Another name for bilaterians
triploblasts
Examples of Ctenophora
comb jellies
Examples of Cnidaria
sea anemone, corals and hydrozoans
characteristics of flatworms
simplest bilaterians, acoelomate - no body cavity, mouth is only opening for its gastrovascular cavity; simple nervous system - a brain, sense organs, and branching nerves; eyespots
characteristics of cnidaria
gastrovascular cavity with one opening - mouth
characteristics of ctenophora
have a complete gut; ctenes - fused plates of cilia used to move