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The central cavity of the sponge |
Spongocoel |
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Sponges draw water in through: |
Pores |
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Water flows out of a sponge through the: |
Osculum/oscula |
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___͵ also called ___͵ take in food particles through ___. |
Choanocytes, collar cells, phagocytosis |
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The gelatinous region between the two layers of a sponge |
Mesohyl |
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3 main functions of amoebocytes |
1) taking up food, digesting it, carrying nutrients to other cells 2) manufacture of skeletal fibers 3) totipotence (ability to become other types of cells) |
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Sexes of sponges |
Sequential hermaphrodites |
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All animals with true tissues |
Eumetazoans |
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2 cnidarian forms |
Medusa and polyp |
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Cnidarian cells that provide defense and capture prey |
Cnidocytes |
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In cnidarians, digestion occurs in the |
Gastrovascular cavity |
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Gelatinous layer between epidermis and gastrodermis |
Mesoglea |
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Special organelles found in cnidocytes |
Cnidae |
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Cnidae with stinging threads |
Nematocysts |
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Major clades within Cnidaria |
Medusazoa and Anthozoa |
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Key characteristic of Medusazoans |
Production of a medusa |
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Members of Medusazoa |
Scyphozoans, cubozoans, and hydrozoans |
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Medusazoan that exists only in polyp form |
Hydra |
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Members of Anthozoa |
Anemones and corals |
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Major bilaterian clades |
Lophotrochozoa, Ecdysozoa, Deuterostomia |
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Lophophore |
Crown of ciliated tentacles that functions in feeding |
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Trochophore |
Ciliated larva |
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Flatworm excretory apparatus |
Protonephridia (network of tubules with ciliated structures called flame bulbs that pull fluid through branched ducts opening to the outside) |
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4 things flatworms lack |
Coelom, gas exchange organs, circulatory system, separate mouth and anus |
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2 flatworm lineages |
Catenulida and Rhabditophora |
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Characteristics of Catenulida |
~100 species, mostly freshwater, mostly asexual |
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Characteristics of Rhabditophora |
~20,000 species, freshwater or marine, free-living or parasitic |
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Examples of Rhabditophora |
Planarians, trematodes, tapeworms |
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Planarian characteristics |
Freshwater, predator/scavenger, asexual/hermaphroditic |
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Trematode characteristics |
Parasitic, eg blood fluke |
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Tapeworm characteristics |
Parasitic, feed through absorption, reproduce sexually |
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Rotifer digestive tube |
Alimentary canal |
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Rotifer reproduction |
Often parthenogenesis, sometimes sexually in some species |
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Lophophorates |
Animals with a lophophore -- including ectoprocts and brachiopods |
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Ectoprocta traits |
Colonial, most often marine |
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Brachiopoda traits |
Attached to seafloor with stalk, always marine |
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3 main parts of molluscs |
Foot, visceral mass, and mantle |
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Mollusc sexes |
Usually separate sexes with gonads in visceral mass |
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Hermaphroditic molluscs |
Many snails |
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Major mollusc clades |
Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda |
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Polyplacophora |
Chitons: oval-shaped,shell composed of eight dorsal plates, marine |
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Gastropoda |
Snails and slugs: 3/4 of all living molluscs, mostly marine |
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Bivalvia |
Sedentary, filter feeders, gills used for feeding |
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Cephalopoda |
Octopuses, squids, and chambered nautiluses: marine predators, closed circulatory system |
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Major clades of annelida |
Errantians and sedentarians |
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Errantia |
Large and diverse group of annelids, mostly marine, many have parapodia, well-developed jaws and sensory organs |
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Sedentaria |
Less mobile clade of annelids, includes leeches and eaethworms |
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Ecdysozoans |
Lophotrochozoans that molt |
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Annelid circulatory system |
Closed |
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Nematode circulatory system |
None |
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Nematode habitat |
Water, soil, plants, animals |
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Acoelomates |
Flatworms |
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Pseudocoelomates |
Rotifers, nematodes |
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Coelomates |
Ectoprocts, brachiopods, molluscs, annelids, arthropods |
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Arthropod circulatory system |
Open, fluid called hemolymph |
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Insect respiratory system |
Trachea system |
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Major arthropod lineages |
Chelicerates, myriapods, and pancrustaceans |
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Chelicerae |
Clawlike feeding appendages |
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Chelicerates |
Sea spiders, horseshoe crabs, scorpions, ticks, mites, and spiders |
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Myriapods |
Centipedes and millipedes |
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Pancrustaceans |
Insects and crustaceans |
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Spiders exchange gas using: |
Book lungs |
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____ may have been among the earliest animals on land |
Millipedes |
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The cuticle of decapods is hardened by: |
Calcium carbonate |
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Decapods |
Lobsters, crayfish, crabs and shrimps |
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Barnacles are: |
Sessile crustaceans |
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Functions of echinoderm water vascular system |
Locomotion and feeding |
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Echinoderm reproduction |
Separate sexes, gametes released into water |
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Adult echinoderm symmetry |
Usually five spokes, not truly radial |
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Echinoderm clades |
Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, Echinoidea, Crinoidea, Holothuroidea |
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Asteroidea |
Sea stars and sea daisies |
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Ophiurodea |
Brittle stars |
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Echinoidea |
Sea urchins and sand dollars |
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Crinoidea |
Sea lilies and feather stars |
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Holothuroidea |
Sea cucumbers |
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Invertebrate chordata |
Lancelets and tunicates |