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What is in the phylum Porifera
sponges
What phyla are sponges in
porifera
What is the type of feeding that sponges use
suspension feeding they feed on particles of food passing by
What is the spongocoel
it is the central cavity where the water is filtered
In a sponge where does the water exit
The osculum
What seperates sponges from eumetazoans
they lack true tissue
What cells line the interior of a spongocoel
chanocytes or collar cells
What do the chanocytes do
they create a current of water by mocing their flagellum then they trap the floating food particles and digest them through phagocytosis
The body of a sponge consists of two layers of cells seperated by a gelatinous region what is this gelatinous region called
mesohyl
In the body of a sponge what moves through the mesohyl
amoebocytes
What do the amoebocytes do
they carry food to other parts of the sponge and make the skeltal fibers of the sponge
How do male sponges impregnate female sponges
they dont sponges are hermaphrodites
Where do the sponges gametes come from
the choanocytes or amoebocytes
Where does the egg form in sponges
the mesohyl
How do sponges maintain variance
cross fertalization using water currents to carry sperm
How can sponges help people
they produce alot of antibiotics
What makes Cnidarians unique
they have radial symmetry, a gastrovascular cavity, and cnidocytes
What belongs to the clade Eumetazoa
everything but sponges which are in the clade Metazoa
What are some types of cnidarians
jellies , corals, and hydras
What is a gastrovascular cavity
a central digestive sac that functions as a mouth and an ass
Cnidarians have two forms what are they
the sessile polyp and the floating medusa
What are polyps
cylindrical forms that adhere to the substrate by the aboral end of the body
What is a medusa
a flattened mouth down version of the polyp
Cnidarians are herbavores
false they are carnivores
What is the purpose fo cnidocytes
they contain cnidae or nematocysts which are stinging cells that act for attacking or defense
What classes are Cnidaria seperated into
Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Cubozoa, and ANthozoa
What is unique about Hydrozoans
they alternate between polyp and medusa form and they are colonial and interconnected when in the polyp stage
In the Hydrozoan group there is an animal called a hydra what is unique about them
they live in fresh water and they exist only in the polyp form and only reproduce sexually when conditions are bad then the zygote goes doorment
What is unique about Scyphozoans
They spend most of their time in the medusa stage Most costal Scyphozoans have a short polyp stage those in the ocean dont have one at all
What is unique about Cubozoans
They have a cube shape, complex eyes,and have highly toxic cnidocytes
What is a very deadly type of cubozoan
the sea wasp
What is a more common name for Anthozoans
corals
What is unique about Anthozoans (coral )
they are very sessile and colonial and they are dying out
Flatworms belong to what phylum
platyhelminthes
What is a platyhelminthe
a flatworm
Flat worms are diploblasts
not triploblasts
Why are flat worms flat
the shape allow for gas exchange and elimintaion of nitrogenous waste to occur by diffusion
How do flat worms maintain osmotic balance
through flame bulbs
What are the four classes of flatworms
Turbellaria, Monogenea, Trematoda, and Cesoda
What is the most known kind of Turbellarian
Planarians
How do planarias move
they can move across slime that they make or the are able to swim
How do planarias reproduce
asexually and sometime heterosexually
How do Monogeneans and Trematode survive
They are paracites
What is unique about Trematodes
They have a complex sexual life cycle, they also normally have an intermeadiate host for the larva stage
How do blood flukes evade immune systems
by mimicking the surface proteins of its hosts creating a partial immunological camouflage
What are the main hosts for Monogeneans
fish
What is the anteior end of tape worms called
the scolex and it is armed with hooks that lock to the intestantal line
How do tape worms digest food
they absorb it across the body surface
What is the ribbon material in a tape worm called
Proglottids
What is the function of the Proglottids
they are little sacks that contain tape worm eggs
Rotifers have a mouthe and an anus
true
What is the digestive tube with a separate mouth and anus called
a alimentary canal
How do rotifers get nutrients to other parts of the body
they have to move around
What is the digestive tract in rotifers called
pharynx bears jaws
What does the pharynx bears jaws do
it grinds up food mostly microorganisms
What are the ways rotifers reproduce
they either make females from unfertilized eggs or the make males and females from unfertilized eggs and the males fertilize eggs and then die
What is it called when you make offspring from unfertalized eggs
parthenogensis
I rotifers what is the purpose of making males
they fertaize egges and these eggs have the ability to survive when the ponds drys up
What is something that has confused scientists about rotifers
they have survived so long without sexual reproduction without getting diseases
Why do people call bilaterians in the phyla Ectoprocts Phoronids and Brachiopods Lophophorates
because they all have a lophophore which is a horse shoe shaped circulation of ciliated tentacles that surround the mouth
What are some other similarities in the Lophophorates
U- shaped alimentary canal and the absence of a distict head
What seperates Lophophorates from flatworms and rotifers
they have true coelom completely lined with mesoderm
What are Ectoprocts
colonial animals that superficially resemble plant
Do Ectoprocts move
no they are sessile
What are Phoronids
Tube dwelling marine worms
How do the Phoronids get food
They live in tubes and they shoot out their lophores and suck up the food
What is unique about Brachiopods
they the resemble clams except the shells close dorsal and vantral
What is unique about Nemerteans
they are commonly called ribbon worms they feed through a proboscis that is shot at prey and delievers toxins
What features do Nemerteans have that flatworms do not
they have an alimentary canal and a closed circulatory system
What is in the closed circulatory system of Nemerteans and do the have a heart
blood and they have no heart
Do all moluscs live in the water
no snails and slugs live on land
If all molluscs have shells how are slugs squids and octopuses molluscs
they have a reduced internal shell or have lost their shell
What are the main part of a mollusc
the muscular foot used for movement , a visceral mass containing the internal organs, a mantle makes the shell
What is in the mantle cavity
it houses the gills, anus, and excritory pores
How do many molluscs feed
they use a radula to scrape up food
What type of mollusc is mostly a hermaphrodite
snails
What is a trochohore
the ciliated larval stage characteristic in molluscs and marine annelids
What are four classes of moluscs
Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, and Cephalopoda
What is unique about Chitons
they have an oval shaped bosy divided into eight dorsal plates but the body is unsegmented they eat algea and live on rocks
What is the most common type of mollusc
a gastropod
What is torsion
it is a process found in gastropods that the anus and other body parts move up into the shell
Gastropods are all herbavores
no some of them have adaptations in their radula that makes them able to break through the shells of other molluscs and eat them
What are bivalves
big shelled animals like oysters, mussels and scallops
How do Bivalves eat
They trap food particles in mucus that coats their gills and cillia then move the particles to the mouth
How do they breath
water enters the mantle through the incurrent siphon and passes over the gills and then exits the mantle cavity through an excurrent siphon
What is an example of a cephalopod
an octopus
Where is the foot of a cephalopod
it has become the excurrent siphon parts of the tenticles and the head
Are there any shelled octopuses
yes the shelled nautales
Which mollusc has a shelled circulatory system
the octopuses/ cephlopods
What are some of the smartest invertabretes
cephlopods
what were shelled cephalopods called
ammonites
When did ammonites disapear
during the end of the cretaceous period
What clade are segmented worms found in
annelids
what is a common name for annelids
segmented worms
What are the classes of annelids
oligochaetes Polychaeta and Hirudinea
How do earth worms eat
They take in nutrients from the soil
What are oligochaetes named after
the chaetae or bristles made of chitin
Are earth worms hermaphrodites
Do the sexually reproduce
yes
yes by alineing themselves in a way that they can exchange sperm
What is unique about Polychaetes
they have parapodia that are almost feet and function for locomotion
What is another thing that the parapodia are used for
they have gills on them
Are leaches only paracites
no some are predatores
What are the ways that a leech feeds
they either cut holes in the skin or release digestive enzymes on the skin
After the leech breaks the skin why don't people notice
they use anesthetic
After the leech breaks the skin why don't people stop bleeding
they release an anti coagulante called hirudin
What is a common name for a nematode
round worm
What clade is the round worm in
Nematode
What is the body shape of the nematode
it is cylandrical with the end going into a fine point and the head being blunt
What is the rough coat that covers Nematodes
the cuticle
Do nematoeds have a circulatory system or an alimentary canal
no but they do have an alimentary canal
How do Nematodes usually reproduce
sexual reproduction
Most arthropods are what
insects
Which is one of the most successful phyla
Arthropods
What are some important characteristics of arthropods
segmentation hard exoskeleton and jointed appendages
What is a name for early arthropods
trilobites
Whatis the difference between trilobites and arthropods
arthropods segments fused into more specialized parts
What si the body of an arthropod covered by
exoskeleton
In order to grow what must an arthropod do
molt
do arthropods have well developed sensory organs
yes
Do arthropods have blood
no the have hemloymph
How do terestrial arthropods complete gas exchange
internally
What are the four major lineages of arthropods
Cheliceriforms, Myriapods, hexapods , and crustaceans
What do chelicerae serve as
pincers or fangs
DO Chliceriforms have antennae
no
What where the early chliceriforms called
eurypterids
Are most Cheliceriforms marine
no they used to be
Besides insects what is the largest family of cheliceriform
aracnids
What type of lungs do Cheliceriforms have
book lungs
DO Cheliceriforms have blood
no hemolymph
What is a common Myripods
centipedes and millapedes
Are any myriapods marine and what type of mouthes do they have
no
mandibles
In centipedes where are the legs
each trunk segment has two
Are millipedes and cenatpedes decomposers
no centapedes are carnivorous
What is mainly found in hexapoda
insects
What spurred an explosion in insect variety
flight in the carboniferous and permian periods
What was the first insect to fly
the dragon fly
What is incomplete metamorphosys
in grass hoppers young resemble adults complete would be if larval was totally different than adult
Which arthropod is mostly marine
crustations
What species is biramous and what does this mean
crustations they have branched appendages
HOw do crustations breath and dispose of waste
across their cuticle
What is the largest group of crustations
isopods they are small decapods are large
What are planktonic crustations
copepods
Which species has deuterostome like qualities
the Echinoderms they have radial symmetry and develop the mouth second
Are most echinoderms sessile
yes
What is unique about echinoderms
the water vascular system branching into their tube feet that function for feeding moving and gas exchange
If echinoderms are eumetazoans why do they have radial symmetry
they had bilateral as larva
WHat can echinoderms be broken down into
sea stars, brittle stars, sea Urchins and sand dollars, Sea Lilies and feather stars, Sea cucumbers, sea dasies