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what are the three domains of life
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bacteria, archaea, & eukarya
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what is bioremediation used for?
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use of bacteria to clean up a beach contaminated by an oil spill
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groups of archaea by habitat
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halophiles, sulfate reducers, methanogens, & thermophiles
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halophiles
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"salt-lovers"
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sulfate reducers
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reduce hydrogen sulfide as a by-product of cellular respiration
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methanogens
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produce methane as a by-product of cellular respiration
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thermophiles
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grow best at temps above 80 degree celsius
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what are the morphological diversities of bacteria & archaea?
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size, shape, mobility
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gram-positive
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bacteria with an extensive peptidoglycan
- stays blue/purple |
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gram-negative
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bacteria with some peptidoglycan & an outer membrane
- turns red/pink |
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how do bacteria & archaea produce ATP?
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phototrophs, chemoorganotrophs, & chemolithotrophs
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phototrophs
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bacteria & archaea that use light energy to promote electrons to top of electron transport chain
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organotrophs
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bacteria & archaea that oxidize organic material to produce ATP
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lithotrophs
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oxidize inorganic material to produce ATP
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autotrophs
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bacteria & archaea that synthesize their own carbon-containing compounds
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heterotrophs
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bacteria & archaea that aquire carbon-containing compounds from other organisms
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True or False- Bacteria and Archaea use a wide range of electron donors and acceptors in cellular respiration
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True
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What are the 4 main bacterial lineages?
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firmicutes, spirochaetes, actinobacteria, proteobacteria
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Firmicutes
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bacteria that is rod-shaped or spherical
-causes pnemonia & strep throat |
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Spirochaetes
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bacteria that is corkscrew shaped
-causes lyme disease & syphillis |
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Actinobacteria
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bacteria shaped as rods, filaments, & form chains
-cause leprosy and tuberculosis |
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Proteobacteria
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bacteria shaped as rods, spheres, & spirals
- have fruiting bodies -cause plague, gonorrhea |
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What are the 2 Archaea lineages?
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Crenarchoaeota and Euryarcheota
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Crenarchoaeota
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filaments, rods, discs, spheres
- some extremophiles -archaea |
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Euryarcheota
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diverse forms
-live in a diversity of habitats |
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monophyletic group
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evolutionary unit that contains an ancestor & all of its descedents
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synapomorphy
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shared, derived character
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paraphyletic
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a group that includes an ancestor and some but not all of the descendents
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adaptive radiation
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single lineage produces many descendant species that live in a wide diversity of habitats & find food in a variety of ways
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Do bacteria have a nuclear envelope?
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NO
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Do archaea have a nuclear envelope?
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NO
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Do eukarya have nuclear envelopes?
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yes
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True or False- Bacteria and Archaea have circular chromosomes
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True
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Are bacteria mostly unicellular or mulitcellular?
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unicellular
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Are archaea unicellular or multicellular?
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unicellular
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Are eukarya unicellular or mulitcellular?
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mostly multicelluar
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Where did the membrane-bound nuclear envelope evolve?
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with the eukaryotes
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What species are in Eukarya?
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Protists, Green plants, Fungi, Animals
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what are the synapomorphies of eukarya?
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nuclear envelope, nucleus, organelles, & cytoskeleton
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Where do protists live?
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in moist areas
- ocean, shallow coastal waters, interidal habitats |
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What causes malaria?
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the protist Plasmodium
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Which protist causes the toxic tidal bloom?
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dinoflagellates
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The origin of the nuclear envelope was created by what?
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protists by the infoldings of the plasma membrane
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endosymbiosis
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an organism of one species lives within another
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endosymbiotic theory
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mitochondria are derived from bacteria
- anaerobic eukaryote engulfs aerobic bacteria, bacteria lives inside cell, & eukaryote provides protection, carbon while bacteria supplies ATP |
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what is the internal support of protists?
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silicon-containing skeletons
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what is the external support for protists?
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test or shell
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colonial growth
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cells aggregate but each cell performs the same function
-protists |
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multicellular growth
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masses of closely interacting cells
- distinct cell or tissue types |
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True or False- Protists are much larager than bacteria and archaea
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True
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How do protists gain nutrients?
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ingestion- filter feeders
(ex Pseudopodia) - absorption- decomposer, parasite - photosynthesis |
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what pigments do green protists have?
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chlorophyll a & b
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what pigmetns do red protists have?
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chlorophyll a & phycoerthrins
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what pigments do brown protists have?
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chlorophyll a, c, & xanthins
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what are the 3 modes of protist movement?
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amoebid motion, swimming with flagellum, swimming with cillae
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T or F- protists' alternation of generations in which multicellular diploid and haploid can look different or identical
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TRUE
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Which is a monophyletic group that includes algae and land plants?
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Plantae
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domestication
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evolution of plants
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Green plants include...
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green algae and land plants
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T or F- seed plants are a monophyletic group
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true
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where are simple water conducting cells found
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fossils and modern-day mosses
-primary wall w/ cellulose |
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where are first vascular tissue found?
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fossils
- primary wall & some lignin |
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where are tracheids found?
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all vascular plants
- primary wall, secondary wall w/ lignins, ends with gaps |
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where are vessel elements found?
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found in gnetophytes and angiosperms
- primary wall, secondary wall, ends w/ gaps thru primary & secondary walls |
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True or False- Water conducting cells are alive at maturity
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FALSE- they are dead
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what diseases do fungi cause?
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atletes foot, ringworm,aspergillosis
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True or False- both the reproductive structure & mycelium are composed of hyphae
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True
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Lichens
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fungi that grow in association with cyanobacteria or single-celled green algae
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Mycorrhizae
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fungi that live in association w/ plant roots
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EMF
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ectomycorrhizal fungi form sheaths around roots & penetrate between them
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AMF
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arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi contact the plasma membranes of root cells
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what kind of gametes do Chytridiomycota have?
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swimming gametes
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what kind of gametes do Zygomycota have?
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hyphae yoke together & form a zygosporangium
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where do ascomycota form spores?
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in asci (sacs)
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True or False- animals are a monophyletic group
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True
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three traits of animals
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1- multicellular
2- heterotrophs 3- move under their own power at some pt in their life cycle |
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4 features of an animal's body plan
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1- number of embryonic tissue layers
2- type of body symmetry & degree of cephalization 3- presence or absence of a fluid-filled body cavity 4- how the earliest events of embryo development proceed |
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what all animals have
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epithelium
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diploblasts
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animals whose embryos have 2 types of tissues or germ layers
- ectoderm (outside skin) - endoderm (inside) |
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triploblasts
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animals whose embryos have 3 types of germ layers: endoderm, ectoderm, mesoderm
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most sponges are...
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asymmetrical
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radial symmetry
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have at least 2 planes of symmetry
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bilateral symmetry
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single plane of symmetry & face environment in one direction
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cephalization
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development of a head region where structures for feeding, sensing the environment, & processing information
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kind of symmetry jellyfish have
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radial
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hydrostatic skeleton
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allows soft-bodied animals to move even w/o fins or limbs
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protostomes
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arthropods, mollusks, and segmented worms
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deuterostomes
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chordates and echinoderms
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cleavage
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rapid series of mitotic divisions that occurs in the absence of growth
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Gastrulation
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series of cell movements that results in the embryonic tissue layers
- as this proceeds the coelom forms |
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lophotrochozoans
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molluscs, annelids, & flatworms are examples
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lophophore
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specialized structure that rings the mouth of these animals and functions in suspension feeding
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Trocophores
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type of larva common to several phyla of lophotrochozoa
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ecdysozoan
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roundworms and arthropods are examples
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how ecdysozoans grow
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molting- shedding of cuticle or hard exoskeleton
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hemocoel
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body cavity of arthropods that provides space for organs & circulation
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4 phyla of deuterostomes
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Echinodermata, the Hemichordata, the Xenoturbellida, and the Chordata
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echniderms
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spiky deuterostomes
- bilaterally symmetric larvae - radial symmetric adults - water vascular system- hydrostatic skeleton - tube feet - podia - endoskeleton- hard supportive part inside the body |
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chordates have 4 morphological features
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1- pharyngeal gill slits
2- notocord 3- hollow nerve cord 4- muscular anal- tail |