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What do sea stars and humans have in common?
Deuterostomes
Deuterostome phyla - 2
1. Echinoderms
2. Chordates
Echinoderms means ________ _________.
Spiny skin
Echinoderm characteristics - 12
1. Marine animals
2. Sessile or sedentary animals
3. Radial symmetry as adults but bilateral as larvae
4. Internal and external parts radiate from center (five)
5. Endoskeleton of hard calcareous plates
6. Tube feet
7. Gas exchange
8. Sexual reproduction
9. Regeneration of body parts
10. Surface covered with spines
11. Surface covered with small gills
12. Short digestive system
Echinoderm sexual reproduction
Separate males and females release their gametes into water.
Echinoderm classes
1. Sea Stars
2. Brittle Stars
3. Sea urchins and sand dollars (no arms)
4. Sea lilies
5. Sea cucumbers
Chordate Characteristics - 4
1. Notochord
2. Dorsal hollow nerve cord
3. Pharyngeal gill slits
4. Postanal tail
Notochord
A longitudinal, flexible rod, located between the gut and the nerve cord.
1. Chordates are named for this structure
2. Primitive chordates, notochord supports adult
3. Complex chordates, notochord is a complex skeleton
Dorsal hollow nerve cord
1. Unique to chordates
2. Other animal phyla have solid nerve cords that are located ventral to the gut
3. Comes from ectoderm
Pharygeal slits - 4
1. pairs of slits located on the sides of the pharynx
2.Water enters through mouth and out through gill slits
3. Filter feeding
4. Modified for gas exchange
Muscular postanal tail
tail like a cat
Urochordata
tunicates
1. Sessile adults
2. Filter feeders (siphons)
Cephalochordata
lancelets
1. Segmented muscles
2. Closely related to vertebrates
Which can have long, movable spines?
Echinoidea (sea urchins, sand dollars