Unit 1: Diversity Flashcards
Phylum Porifera
Animalia - Sponges
- asymmetrical
- no tissues or organs
- colony of specialized cells
- filter feeders
- sessile as adults
- good powers of regeneration
Phylum Cnidaria
Animalia - Jellyfish, corals, anemones
- radial symmetry
- two tissue layers (inner mesoglea)
- primitive nerve net but no brain
- 2-way digestive tract
- stinging cells for capturing food
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Animalia - Flatworms
- bilateral symmetry
- primative brain
- 3 tissue layers
Phylum Nematoda
Animalia - Roundworms
- No cilia or flagella
- surrounded by a protective cuticle
- can only bend side to side
- no circulatory or respiratiry system
- in unfavourable conditions can suspend life processes
Phylum Annelida
Animalia - segmented worms
- earthworms
- one way digestive tract
- well developed digestive and circulatory systems
Phylum Mollusca
Animalia - snails, slugs, clams
- either have no shell one shell or two shells
- have a hard mouth part
Phylum Arthropoda
Animalia - insects, centipedes, millipedes
- exoskeleton made of chitin
- must shed shell to grow
Phylum Echinodermata
Animalia - sea stars, sea urchins, sand dollars
- radial symmetry in adults and bilateral in larvae
- tube feet and water vascualr system
- most exhibit pentamerism
Phylum Chordata
Animalia - fish, birds, mammals
- dorsal hollow nerve tube
- notochord
- pharyngeal gill slits
- post anal tail
What defines a fungi
- Firm cell walls (chitin)
- spores as reproductive bodies
- unique chromosomes and nuclei
- includes mold, yeasts, rusts, and mushrooms
- eukaryotic and absorptive
- mostly unicellular
- heterotrophic
- mycelium
What defines an animal
- eukaryotic
- multicellular
- heterotrophic
- no cell wall
- motile in some stage of life
Phylum Chytridiomycota
Fungi
- mainly aquatic
- some saprobic, some parasitic
- Chitin cell wall
- flagellated zoospores
Phylum Zygomycota
Fungi - bread molds
- zygote = “mated” hyphal strands
- live in soil and water
- some are parasites
Phylum Ascomycota
Fungi - truffles, yeast
- decomposers
- pathogens
- have asci (fruiting body)
Phylum Basidiomycota
Fungi -
- have a basidium (fruiting body, club shaped) that produces basidiospores
- food
- plant disease
Phylum Deuteromycota
Fungi - no longer exist - athletes foot
- saprobial, parasitic, predatory
- produce conidia
- mostly classified as ascomycota
- asexual
- penicillin
Lichens
A fusion of fungi and a unicellular producer (protist or a eubacteria)
Phylum Cercezoa
Animal-like - amoebas (endamoeba hystolitica- feeding on the lining of the small intestine)
- no cell wall
- use internal cytoskeleton to move
- pseudopods for feeding and moving
Phylum Ciliophora
Animal-like - balantidium coli (parasite in large intestine)
- have cilia, help with movement and sweeping food particles into the cell