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Heteroloboseids is |
A brain eating amoeba |
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Bacteria & Archaea mass |
10 times greater than all eukaryotes |
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What 2 organelles evolved from prokaryotes? |
Mitochondria and chloroplasts |
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2 main branches of prokaryotes evolution are? |
Bacteria and Archaea |
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Shapes: spheres, rods, and helical are named what? |
Cocci, bacilli, spirilla |
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Nearly all prokaryotes have a _____ external to the plasma membrane |
Cell wall |
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Cell walls in prokaryotes have what 3 functions? |
1 maintain cell shape 2 afford physical protection 3 prevent bursting in hypotonic environments |
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________ is a cell wall made of sugars linked with polypeptides |
Peptidoglycan |
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Archaea cell walls contain _______&______ but lack peptidoglycan. |
Polysaccharides proteins |
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Gram positive bacteria have a _______ layer of peptidoglycan and will stain the color _________. |
Thick, purple or blue |
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Among pathogens, gram ___________ are more threatening than gram __________. |
Negative, positive |
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What makes gram negative bacteria more threatening? |
Lipopolysaccharides are toxic (their otter most layer) Outer membrane protects against host defenses Greater resistance to antibiotics |
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_________ inhibits xlink formation and interferes with cell wall function |
Penicillin |
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Protective layer that is dense and well defined is a _______ |
Capsule |
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Protective layer that is NOT well defined or organized is a _________ |
Slime layer |
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Capsules and slime layers are sticky to help with what 2 things? |
1 form colonies 2 protection from dehydration and shield from pathogens |
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Some prokaryotes use ______, hair like appendages, to stick together. |
Fimbriae |
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Some bacteria can withstand harsh conditions by forking resistant cells called ________ when they lack essential nutrients. |
Endospores |
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In a heterogenous environment many prokaryotes are capable of ______ or directional movement. 2 examples are ____&_____ |
Taxis, chemotaxis, phototaxis |
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3 major differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes |
Prokaryotes... 1 lack compartmentalization by internal membranes 2 have unfolded regions on plasma membrane 3 smaller, simpler genomes. Many w/ plasmids |
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Certain antibiotics such as _________ and ___________ bind to prokaryotes ribosomes and block protein synthesis. |
Erythromycin, tetracycline |
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Of bacteria, Archaea, and eukarya which have a nuclear envelope? |
Eukarya only |
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Of bacteria, Archaea and eukarya which have membrane enclosed organelles? |
Eukarya only |
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Of bacteria, Archaea and eukarya which have peptidoglycan in the cell wall? |
Bacteria only |
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Of bacteria, Archaea and eukarya which respond to antibiotics streptomycin and chloramphenicol? |
Growth usually inhibited in bacteria but not in Archaea or eukarya |
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Growth is prokaryotes refers to increase in _________ size |
Population |
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Horizontal gene transfer facilitates rapid evolution by doing what? |
Bringing DNA of different species together |
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What are the 3 mechanisms that prokaryotes use for gene transfer? |
Transformation, transduction, and conjugation |
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Transformation |
Cells take up genes from surrounding environment |
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Transduction |
Viruses transfer genes from one prokaryote to another |
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Conjugation |
Direct transfer of genes from one prokaryote to another |
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Phototrophs |
Use light energy |
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Chemotrophs |
Energy from chemicals in environment |
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Autotrophs |
Need only CO2 (inorganic) |
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Heterotroph |
Require at least one organic nutrient |
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Photoautotrophs |
Photosynthetic organisms use light energy to drive synthesis of organic compounds from CO2 (plants, algae) |
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Chemoautotrophs |
Need only CO2, but oxidize inorganic substances for energy (H2S, NH3, Fe+2) |
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Photoheterotrophs |
Use light for energy, obtain carbon in organic form |
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Chemoheterotrophs |
Consume organic molecules for energy & carbon (protist, fungi, animals, some parasitic plants) |
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Majority of prokaryotes are classified as what energy classification? |
Chemoheterotrophs |
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Obligate aerobes |
Use O2 for cellular respiration & cannot grow without it |
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Obligate anaerobes |
Poisoned by O2 and may use fermentation or anaerobic respiration |
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Nitrogen fixation |
Converts N2 to ammonia (NH3) only biomechanism that makes atmospheric N2 available to organisms |
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Photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation occur in different cells within the colony of _________ |
Anabaena |
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Cooperation may occur in surface coatings known as _________ |
Biofilms |
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Exotoxins |
Proteins secreted by prokaryotes (ex botulism) |
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Endotoxins |
Lipopolysaccharides components of the outer membranes of certain gram-negative bacteria. Released when bacteria die. |
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The taxonomic unit at any level of the hierarchy is called a ______ |
Taxon |
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Monophyletic group is a ________ |
Clade |
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Paraphyletic groups consist of ancestral species but not all the _______ |
Decendants |
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Polyphyletic group consists of various species that ______ a common ancestor. |
Lack |
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The clade Excavate is characterized by its _________ |
Cytoskeleton |
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Euglenozoans clade main feature is |
A spiral or crystalline rod inside the flagella |
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Kinetoplastids |
Single large mitochondria with DNA mass called kinetoplast |
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Euglenids are often mixotrophs meaning they _________ |
Combine photosynthesis and heterotroph nutrition |
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______ clade is a extremely diverse clade defined by DNA data |
SAR |
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Stramenopiles are a group of _______ _______ that includes some of the most important photosynthetic organisms on earth. |
Marine algae |
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__________ are unicellular algae with unique glass like walls made of hydrated silica. |
Diatoms |
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_________ characterized by color that results from yellow and brown carotenoids. |
Golden algae |
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__________ are the largest and most complex algae. |
Brown algae |
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___________have membrane-enclosed sacs (alveoli) just under the plasma membrane. |
Alveolates |
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_____________ are characterized by their 2 flagella. |
Dinoflagellates |
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An example of a apicomplexans is _________ |
Malaria |
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__________ are a large varied group of protists named for their use of Cilla to move and feed |
Ciliates |
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Archaeplastida is a supergroup that includes _________, ______, and _______ |
Red algae, green algae, land plants |
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________ are reddish in color die to an accessory pigment called phycoerythrin that masks green of chlorophyll |
Red algae |
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Of the two groups of green algae, is charaphytes or chlorophytes closer related to land plants? |
Charaophytes |
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Are plasmodial slime molds diploma or halpoid organisms? |
Diploid |
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Are cellular slime molds diploid or halpoid organisms? |
Halpoid |
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Single filament of a fungi is a ________ but a network forms the _________. |
Hyphae, mycelium |
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Cell walls of fungi are built of ________ |
Chitin |
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Some fungi are _______ where the hyphae is not divided called coenocytic fungi. |
Aseptate |
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Parasitic fungi have modified hyphae called ________ that penetrate host tissue. |
Haustoria |
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Some mycelium have become genetically heterogenous through the fission of 2 hyphae with genetically different nuclei, called _________ |
Heterokaryon |
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Plasmogamy is |
The fusion of 2 parent cytoplasms |
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Karyogamy is |
Fusion of halpoid nuclei |
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Phylum Chytridomycota characteristics |
Uniflagellated spores, mainly aquatic |
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Phylum Zygomycota characteristics |
Forms mycorrhizae, ex black bread mold |
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Phylum Glomeromycota characteristics |
Arbuscular mycorrhizae (tree looking structures) mutualistic relationship with plants |
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Phylum Ascomycota characteristics |
Sac fungi, like morel mushrooms |
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Phylum Basidiomycota characteristics |
Have fruiting bodies, ex shelf fungi |
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A mushroom is a ____________ |
Basidia |
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Molds are rapidly growing, __________ reproducing fungi. |
Asexual |
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Some molds have no known sexual stage, ______________ |
Deutermycetes (imperfect mushrooms) |
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Most molds reproduce asexually using _________ |
Budding (simple cell division) |
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_______ are often mistaken for mosses. |
Lichens |
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Lichens are actually a symbiotic relationship between a ___________ and a _________, and is not truly a single organism. |
Cyanobacteria or algae, fungi |
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Mycorrhizae refers to ______ _______ |
Fungus roots |
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Almost all ______ _______ have mycorrhizae. |
Vascular plants |
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_______ is the name for a fungal infection in an animal. |
Mycosis |
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Systemic mycoses are fungal infections that shows throughout the body usually from _______ _______ |
Inhaled spores |
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First animal fossils are ________ years old |
560 million |
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Nearly all major body plans appear in ________ period rocks. |
Cambrian |
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What caused the Cambrian explosion? |
1 new predator-prey relationships 2 change in O2 levels 3 variations in HOX genes |
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What are the 4 key evolutionary branch points? |
1 presence or absence of tissue 2 body symmetry 3 evolution of body cavities 4 protostome-deuterostome dichotomy |
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Except for sponges, animal embryo becomes layered through process of ________ |
Gastrulation |
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Embryo contains concentric layer of tissue called ________ ________ |
Germ layers |
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Outer germ layer is called |
Ectoderm |
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Inner germ layer is called |
Endoderm |
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Animals with 2 germ layers are |
Diploblastic |
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Animals with 3 germ layers are |
Triploblastic, has additional mesoderm |
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Triploblastic animals without body cavity between gut and outer body wall are called ________. Example is______ |
Acoelomates, Flatworms |
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Pseudocoelmate |
If a cavity is not completely lined with mesoderm |
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Coelomates |
Animals with true coelom |
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Coelomates can be broken into 2 developmental modes which are: |
Protostome and deuterostome |
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Protostomes have cleavage that is _______, determinate cleavage. Each cell already has a ______ in embryo. |
Spiral, plan |
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Protostomes coelom forms when mesoderm splits, called ________ development. |
Schizocoelous |
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In protostomes the ________ develops from the blastopore. |
Mouth |
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Deuterostomes have ________ indeterminate cleavage. |
Radial |
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Deuterostomes mesoderm from the wall of archenteron hollows out to become _______ _______. This is __________ development. |
Coelomic cavity, enterocoelous |
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Deuterostomes _______ forms from the blastopore and the _______ develops from a secondary opening. |
Anus, mouth |
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Review graphics |
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All animals share a common _______ |
Ancestor |
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Sponges are ________ animals. |
Basal |
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Eumetazoa is a clade of animals with _______ _________. |
True tissues |
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Most animal phyla belong to the clade ___________ |
Bilateria |
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There are ____ major clades of bilaterian animals. |
3 |
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Bilateria clade deuterostomia is the only clade to include both ________ and ___________. |
Invertebrates, vertebrates |
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Bilateria clade ecdysozoa include animals that _______ _______ as it grows. |
Sheds exoskeleton |
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Bilateria clade lophotrochozoa refers to two different features observed in some members of this clade, lophophore and trochophore ________. |
Larva |
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The phylum poriferia include __________ |
Sponges |
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Sponges feed by watery entering ______ called spongocoel into the central cavity and out through the __________. |
Pores, osculum |
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Phylum cnidaria, an ancient phylum of eumeatzoa, include _______, _______, ________, and _________. |
Hydra, jellyfish, sea anemones, corals |
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Phylum cnidaria have body plans containing sac with ______________ cavity and single opening. |
Gastrovascular |
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Phylum cnidaria have 2 variations of body plans. Sessile polyp plans in ______, ______, and ________. Floating medusae in _________. |
Hydra, sea anemones, corals. Jellyfish |
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Tentacles lined with cnidocytes contain _______ _______. |
Stinging capsules (nematocysts) |
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4 classes of cnidaria include: Hydrazoa which most alternate between _____ and ______ form. Scyphozoa which includes jellyfish and _______ form pervails. Cubozoa which are box shaped organisms with complex eyes in the ______ form. Anthozoa which includes sea anemones and coral and are ______ form only. |
Polyp, medusa, medusa, medusa, polyp |
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Phylum ctenophora include _______. |
Tentafors |
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Phylum platyhelminthes are_______ |
Flatworms |
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Simple excretory apparatus to remove excess liquid in planarians are called ________ |
Flame cells |
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The class trematodes are flukes, which are _________ _____ __________. |
Parasites on animals |
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Class cestoda are _______ |
Tapeworms |
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Phylum nemertea are _______ or _______ ________. |
Ribbon or proboscis worms |
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Pseudocoelmate are known for a body cavity that's _is/is not_ completely lined with ________. |
Is not, mesoderm |
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Pathenogenesis can reproduce with just _________ |
Females |
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All 3 phyla of lophophorates (phoronida, ectoprocta, brachiopda) share common lophophore which is _________ ________ or circular fold of body wall with ________ tentacles around the mouth. |
Horseshoe shaped, ciliated |
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Phoronids are ____________ |
Tube dwelling marine worms |
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Bryozoans are |
Moss animals |
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Brachiopods are ____________ |
Lamp shell organisms |
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Phylum mollusca includes chitons, snails, ______, clams, octopi, and _________. |
Slugs, squids |
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3 main parts of a mollusca organism are: |
Muscular foot, visceral mass (contains internal organs), mantle (usually secretes shell) |
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Class polyplacophora include chitons which are known for oval shells divided into _______ dorsal plates |
8 |
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Class gastropoda include ______ & ________ and are known for torsion when one side of the visceral mass grows faster. |
Snails and slugs |
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Class bivalvia including clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops have early ________. |
Eyes, can determine dark from light |
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Class cephalopoda include _______&_________ |
Squids, octopi |
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Cephalopods are the only mollusks with ________ circulatory systems, _______ of a shell, and ________ eyes. |
Closed, lack, developed |
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Phylum annelida are ______ ________ |
Segmented worms |
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The 3 classes of annelids are oligochaeta (ex. _________), polychaeta (ex. _________ with parapodia), and hirudinea (ex. ______) |
Earthworms, tube dwelling worms, leeches |
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__________ is the foundation for specialization of body regions. |
Segmentation |
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___________ phylum characteristics include segmentation, hard exoskeleton, and joint appendages. |
Arthropod |
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Living arthropods have 3 major lineages: chelicerata, myriapoda, and hexapods & crustacea known as ____________. |
Pancrustaceans |
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Chelicerata include spiders & ________ Myriapoda include milipedes & ______ Pancrustaceans include insects & ___ |
Scorpions, tics, mites Centipedes Crabs, lobsters, shimp, barnacles |
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The only arthropods with 2 antenna are __________ |
Crustacea |
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Hexapoda (insects) key to success was ________ |
Flight |
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Insects have 3 body regions: |
Head, thorax and abdomen |
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Thorax of insects have _____ pairs of walking legs. |
3 |
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Insects have _______ circulatory system. So they have _________ _________ for gas exchange to outside through pores called spiacles. |
Open, tracheal system |
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Phylum echinodermata (deuterostomes) have _______ _________ systems and tube feet. |
Water vascular |
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Echinodermata include sea stars (asteroidea), brittle starts (ophiuroidea), ___ ________ (echinoidea), sea lilies (crinoidea), and ___ __________ (holothuroidea). |
Sea urchins or dollars Sea cucumbers |
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Chordata phylum has _____ subphlya of invertebrates and _____ subphlylum of vertebrates. |
2, 1 |