Unit 3 class notes Flashcards
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Metazoa definition
all animals collectively
Animal characteristics
eukaryotic
multicellular
heterotrophic
most are mobile
no cell walls
most reproduce sexually
Chanophlagellets
closest relative to animals, protists, unicellular or colonial species
Porifera animal
sponges, basal clade of animals
Porifera characteristics
-most primative
-no true tissues or organs
-no symmetry
-sexual or asexual reproduction
-mobile in larval form
-sessile (attached) in adult form
Parazoa
contains porifera, simplest group of metazoa
eumetazoa
all animals that arent sponges
characteristics of eumetazoa
- true tissues
- symmetry
Which groups have radial symmetry
cnidarians and ctenophores
which groups are diploblastic
cnidarians and ctenophores
cnidarian animals
jellyfish, corals, hydrozoans, sea anemones
which animals are ctenophores
comb jellies
Diploblastic definition
two tissue layers
- endoderm: gut lining
- ectoderm: outer covering
Medusa body form
mobile, usually mouth down, in cnidarian
Polyp body form
sessile, usually mouth up, in cnidarian
cnidarian feeding
extracellular digestion, release enzymes to digest prey in gastrovascular cavity, absorb nutrients
nematocytes
stinging cells in cnidarians on tenticles (shoot harpone out of)
Chanocytes
flagellated cells that move water in sponges
osculum
large opening in sponge through which water is expelled
amebocytes
a mobile cell in invertebrates that clean up waste and distribute food
ostia
pores in sponges that water moves through
Classes of arthropoda
chelicerata, crustacea, hexapoda, myriapoda
Characteristics of arthropoda
segmented, exoskelton, jointed appendages
segmentation in arthropoda
may have tagmata: head, thorax, abdomen