33 Flashcards
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Invertebrates
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are animals that lack a backbone
• They account for 95% of known animal species
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Sponges are
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basal animals that lack true tissues
they are filter feeders
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amoebocytes
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cells that use pseudopodia
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most sponges are hermaphoridtes meaning:
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each individual as both male and female parts
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Cnidarians are an ancient phylum of
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eumetazoans
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eumetazoans
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“true animals”
animals with tissues
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Cnidarians
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- jellies, corals, and hydras
- simple diploblastic, radial body plan
– gastrovascular cavity
– A single opening functions as mouth
and anus
– There are two variations on the body plan: the sessile polyp and motile medusa
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nematocysts
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cnidae that contain a stinging thread that can penetrate the body wall of prey
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Phylum Cnidaria is divided into 4 main classes:
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Class Hydrozoa
Class Scyphozoa
Class Cubozoa
Class Anthozoa
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Class Hydrozoa
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– Polyp and medusa stages
– Most marine and colonial
– Common examples: Portuguese man-of-war and freshwater hydra
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Class SCYPHOZOA
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- Medusa is prevalent over the polyp stage • All marine
* up to 2 meter in diameter
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class ANTHOZOA
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• Includes corals, sea fans and anemonies • all marine • medusa stage completely absent • sessile; many colonial
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sessile
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fixed in one place; immobile.
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Class Cubozoa
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box jellies, sea wasps
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Phylum Ctenophora
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• Aka comb jellies
• Used to be grouped with cnidarians but…
– Do not possess cnidocytes
– Use “combs” of cilia for locomotion
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lophophore
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a crown of cilia that surrounds the mouth
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trochophore
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larvae that have cilia around their middle
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Bilateriates
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- Bilaterian animals have bilateral symmetry and triploblastic development
- The clade Bilateria contains Lophotrochozoa, Ecdysozoa, and Deuterostomia
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Phylum Platyhelminthes: the flatworms
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Triploblasts, bilateral symmetry, dorso-ventrally
flattened
• No blood vessels, no structures for gas exchange, posses a gastrovascular cavity
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The Parasitic Platyhelminthes: Cestoda
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Parasitic • Most adults infect vertebrates • Possesses a head (scolex) armed with suckers and hooks • Body segments (proglottids) that break off as they ripen with eggs • Lack digestive system • Hermaphrodites but cross mate
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Syndermata
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Rotifers
are tiny animals that inhabit fresh water, the ocean, and damp soil
– Rotifers are smaller than many protists but are truly multicellular and have specialized organ systems
– Pseudocoelomates
Acanthocephalans
are sexually reproducing parasites of vertebrates
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Phylum Mollusca
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Molluscs are soft-bodied animals, but most are protected by a hard shell
– Muscular foot – Visceral mass – Mantle
• Many molluscs also have a water-filled mantle cavity, and feed using a rasplike radula
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Mollusca:
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the 8-plated chitons
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Class Polyplacophora
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consists of the chitons, oval-shaped marine animals encased in an armor of eight dorsal plates; foot used for locomotion; has radula.
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Mollusca: Gastropods (the terrerstrial molluscs)
* Most have a single, spiraled shell
* Slugs lack a shell or have a reduced shell
* The most distinctive characteristic of gastropods is torsion, which causes the animal’s anus and mantle to end up above its head
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Mollusca: Bivalves (two shelled molluscs)
* Molluscs of Class Bivalvia include many species of clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops
* They have a flattened shell divided into two halves
* Marine and freshwater
* Reduced head, paired gills, no radula
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Mollusca: Cephalopoda (the brainy molluscs)
includes squids and octopuses, carnivores with beak-like jaws surrounded by tentacles of their modified foot
• Mouth with or without radula
• Most octopuses creep along the sea floor in search of prey. Locomotion by jet propulsion
• Closed circulatory system...
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Molluscs are the animal group with the largest number of
recent extinctions
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Ecdysozoans are the
most species-rich animal group
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Ecdysozoans are covered by a tough coat called a
cuticle
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The cuticle is shed or molted through a process called
ecdysis
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The two largest phyla are
nematodes and arthropods
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Nematodes
* Nematodes, or roundworms, are found in most aquatic habitats, in the soil, in moist tissues of plants, and in body fluids and tissues of animals
* Body is covered in a tough cuticle that is periodically shed as the animal grows
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Arthropoda
spiders, crabs, insects (a billion billion species)
| • Arthropods are the most diverse animal phylum
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The head and thorax are sometime fused into a
cephalothorax
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Other arthropod characteristics.....
• Evolution of flight
• Open circulatory system in which fluid called hemolymph is circulated into the spaces surrounding the tissues and organs
• A variety of organs specialized for gas exchange have evolved in arthropods
– Aquatic: gills
– Terrestrial:trachealsystem
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Arthropoda
A variety of gas exchange mechanisms have developed among arthropods
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Arthropoda: Cheliceriforms
horseshoe crabs!
| subphylum Cheliceriformes, are named for clawlike feeding appendages called chelicerae
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Arthropoda: Cheliceriforms
* Most modern cheliceriforms are arachnids, which include spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites
* Six pairs of appendages: the chelicerae, the pedipalps, and four pairs of walking legs
* Gas exchange in spiders occurs in respiratory organs called book lungs
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Arthropoda: Myriapoda
• Class Chilopoda
– centipedes: 1 pair of walking legs for each body segment
– carnivorous
• Class Diplopoda
– millipedes: 2 pairs of walking legs for each body segment
– Eat decaying leaves and organic matter
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torsion
a solution to life in a house with 1 entrance
| snails
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Gas exchange in spiders occurs in respiratory organs called
book lungs
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class chilopoda
Arthropoda: Myriapoda
– centipedes: 1 pair of walking legs for each body segment
– carnivorous
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Class Diplopoda
– millipedes: 2 pairs of walking legs for each body segment
| – Eat decaying leaves and organic matter
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Arthropoda: Clade Pancrustacea
| Subphylum Crustacea
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– crabs, lobsters, crayfish,
shrimp, krill, barnacles
– 2 pair of antennae
– 3 types of chewing mouthparts
– varying number of legs; including swimmerets
– distinct larval phase: nauplius larva
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Subphylum Crustacea
| Isopods
include terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species
| – Pill bugs are a well-known group of terrestrial isopods
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decapods
are all relatively large crustaceans and include lobsters, crabs, crayfish, and shrimp
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Arthropoda: Hexapoda
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• Aka the Insects (or tracheates)
– very diverse!
• powered flight
• complex array of specialized mouthparts
– 3 tagmata: head-thorax abdomen
– three pair of walking legs
– 1 pair of antennae
– 1 pair of compound eyes
– Metamorhposis
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_____ open to the atmosphere
spiracles
| tracheal system of insects
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Ecdysozoa: Nematomorpha
* ‘horsehair worms”
* Similar to nematodes, but in their own phylum
parasites
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ecdysozoan....Phylum Tardigrada
major extremophiles
| Prevalent in mosses and lichens, where they feed on plant cells, algae, small invertebrates
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Echinoderms
Sea stars and most other echinoderms are slow- moving or sessile marine animals
Echinoderms have a unique water vascular system, a network of hydraulic canals branching into tube feet that function in locomotion, feeding, and gas exchange
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Echinoderms: Class Asteroidea
Sea stars, class Asteroidea, have multiple arms radiating from a central disk
• The undersurfaces of the arms bear tube feet, each of which can act like a suction disk
• Some sea stars can regrow lost arms
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Echinoderms: Class Ophiuroidea
brittle stars
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Echinoderms: Sea Urchins and Sand Dollars
• Sea urchins and sand dollars have no arms but have five rows of tube feet
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Echinoderms: Sea cucumbers
* Sea cucumbers lack spines, have a very reduced endoskeleton, and do not look much like other echinoderms
* Sea cucumbers have five rows of tube feet; some of these are developed as feeding tentacles
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The non-vertebrate Chordates
• Animals in phylum Chordata but NOT in subphylum Vertebrata
• Hagfishes
• Sea lancelet (Amphioxus)
– subphylum Cephalochordata – No vertebrae, but a notochord
• Sea squirts (Tunicates)
– subphylum Urochordata
– larva has notochord
– adult is filter-feeder with degraded nervous system and no-notochord
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a land snail, a clam, and an octopus all share
a mantle
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which phylum is characterized by animals that have a segmented body?
arthropoda
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the water vascular system of echinoderms
functions in locomotion and feeding
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which of the following combinations of phylum and description is incorrect?
Porifera- gastrovascular cavity and coelomate
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which two main clades branch from the most recent common ancestor of the eumetazoans
cnidaria and bilateria
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Digestion in sponges takes place in the _____.
amoebocytes
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Sponges lack _____.
all of the above
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Sponges feed by _____.
filtering small particles from water
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Which one of following features is characteristic of the poriferan (sponge) body plan or life history?
motile larvae
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Sponges have an internal skeleton composed of _____.
spicules
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Three or four of the following characteristics correctly apply to the sponges. Which characteristic, if any, is NOT true of sponges?
all of the above are true
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All the following statements, except one, describe one particular phylum. Which description does NOT belong with the others?
This phylum has more species than any other phylum.
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__________ are members of the phylum __________ and feed by __________.
Corals ... Cnidaria ... using stinging cells to capture small animals that venture too close to them
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Jellies and corals are members of the same __________, all members of which __________.
phylum ... have special stinging cells on their tentacles
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Which of the following are found in members of the phylum Cnidaria?
stinging cells, radial symmetry
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Many cnidarians go through both a motile and a sessile (attached) stage during their life cycle. The attached stage is called a(n) _____.
polyp
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Through what means do coral animals obtain their food?
tentacles that trap food particles
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The choanocyte of a sponge and the nematocyst of a cnidarian both function in _____.
obtaining food
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A distinctive feature of the Cnidaria is _____.
nematocysts
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An advance of the cnidarians over the sponges is _____.
animalwide coordination and the presence of a gut
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You are given an unknown animal to study in the laboratory. You find it is triploblastic, it is acoelomate, it has a resistant cuticle, and it has male and female gonads in the same individual. This animal probably belongs in the phylum _____.
Platyhelminthes
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Tapeworms are highly specialized worms that make their living as endoparasites. To which of the following phyla and classes do the tapeworms belong?
phylum Platyhelminthes, class Cestoidea
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Which of the following classes is(are) totally parasitic?
Cestoidea and Trematoda
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The proglottids of a tapeworm contain an elaborate __________ system.
reproductive
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Cephalopods are the only mollusks _____.
with a closed circulatory system
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Consider the following list of animals: giant squid, earthworm, largemouth bass, snail, tapeworm, coral, and starfish. The two that belong to the same phylum are the __________ , and their phylum is __________.
giant squid and snail ... Mollusca
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An active marine predator is found possessing these characteristics: a series of tentacles (modified from the foot), a highly developed nervous system, and elaborate eyes. To which of the following animal classes does this organism most likely belong?
Cephalopoda
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You go to the supermarket and ask a clerk where you can find the gastropods. He takes you to the "weird food" section and points out a container of _____.
snails
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The structure of primitive mollusks suggests that this group shared a close common ancestry with _____.
segmented worms
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Which of the following most clearly demonstrates the evolutionary relationship between annelids and arthropods?
body segmentation
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Leeches are members of the phylum _____.
Annelida
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Earthworms are most closely related to _____.
leeches
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During reproduction by the oligochaete earthworm Lumbricus _____.
hermaphroditic individuals exchange sperm
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Which one of the following is NOT a feature of polychaete worms (phylum Annelida, class Polychaeta)?
water vascular system
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The excretory organs of earthworms are called _____.
metanephridia
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Annelids __________.
all of the above are true
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Animals such as ______ are the simplest animals to have _________.
roundworms ... a complete digestive tract
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Biology deals with many kinds of worms. Which choice includes three different phyla of "worms"?
Platyhelminthes, Annelida, Nematoda
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The _____ include the largest number of species.
arthropods
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The key to the diversity and success of the arthropods is _____.
jointed appendages
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Sowbugs are really crustaceans, not insects. Therefore, a sowbug does NOT have _____.
three pairs of legs
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In insects, gas exchange is accomplished by _____.
a tracheal system
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The majority of animal species are _____.
insects
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The arthropods superficially resemble earthworms in that both groups __________, yet the two are distinctly different because arthropods, but not earthworms, __________.
have prominently segmented bodies ... have jointed appendages
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Which one of the following shows the animals listed in such a way that their phyla are in alphabetical order?
spiders, jellies, squids, tapeworms, sponges, rotifers
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Complete metamorphosis __________.
features a larval stage that looks different from the adult
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In arthropods, molting is necessary because ________.
the chitinous exoskeleton cannot grow
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An unidentified species of animal displays the following characteristics: bilateral symmetry, determinate embryonic cleavage, a complete digestive system, an open circulatory system, and distinct body segmentation. To which one of the following animal phyla does this species most likely belong?
Arthropoda
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Which one of the following animals is most closely related to spiders?
scorpions
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A major characteristic of arthropods is _____.
a chitinous exoskeleton
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The water vascular system of a sea star functions in _____.
movement of the tube feet
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A starfish and a squid belong to the phyla __________ and __________, respectively.
Echinodermata ... Mollusca
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Which one of the following statements about the phylum Echinodermata is FALSE?
Members of the phylum include the insects
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Sea stars and sea urchins are members of the phylum __________.
Echinodermata
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lining the interior of the spongocoel are flagellated _____ or collar cells that engulf bacteria and food particles by phagocytosis
what animal is this and what clade?
choanocytes
sponges in Poriferia
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what class and phylum are fire coral and portuguese man of war in?
Phylum Cnidaria and Class Hydrozoa
polyp and medusa stage
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what clade and phylum are true jellies in?
Phylum Cnidaria and Class Scyphozoa
medusa stage
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what class and phylum are box jellies sea wasps in?
Phylum Cnidaria and Class Cuboza
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What class and phylum are corals and anemones in?
Phylum Cnidaria and Class anthozoa
no medusa stage. colonial and sessile
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tentacles of cnidarians are armed with _____
cnidocytes
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cnidocytes have _____ that sting prey
nematocysts
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the polyp is ____ and the medusa is ____
asexual; sexual
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explain the life cycle of hydrozoan Obelia.
what class and phylum?
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Phylum Cnidaria and class Hydrozoa.
Polyps are asexual and the majority of life cycle is diploid and asexual.
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what are Turbellaria and what phylum?
flat worms
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Class Turbellaria
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what is cestoda?
tapeworms
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Class Cestoda
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what is trematoda?
flukes
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Class Trematoda
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flatworms are _____ meaning that they lack a body cavity
acoelomates
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what are parasitic species?
trematodes and tapeworms
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anatomy of a tapeworm
scolex, hooks and suckers
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scallops, clams and oysters are in what class and phylum and clade?
Clade Lophotrochozoa
phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
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mollusks have 3 main body parts:
mantle, foot, visceral mass
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Ecdysozoa sheds a tough external coat called a
cuticle
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in an open circulatory system, what fluid is propelled through body?
hemolymph
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what phylum are spiders, crabs, insects in?
arthropod
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what are the main parts of the arthropod body plan?
segmented body and jointed appendages
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what phylums are deuterostomes that are invertebrates?
Echinoderms and Chordates
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what are Shared characteristics define deuterostomes (Chordates and Echinoderms)?
– Radial and interdeterminate cleavage
– Formation of the mouth at the end of the embryo opposite the
blastopore
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what phylum and class are sea stars in?
echinoderms
| Class Asteroidea
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Why are the arthropoda so diverse?
Adaptive radiation; rapid development; more life cycles; lots of offspring and rapid regeneration times; potential for mutations gives them an advantage
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Horseshoe crab has special blood with _____
amoebocytes
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what is an example of incomplete metamorphosis
Incomplete metamorphasis is a grasshopper
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_____ are one of the few extremophiles in the animal kingdom
Phylum tardigrada ( water bears)
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Early hominins date back to
7.2 to 6.8 mya
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what phylum are sponges in?
Porifera
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why phylum are hydras, corals and jellies in?
cnidaria
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what class are jellies in?
Class Scyphozoa
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what class are hydras in?
Hydrozoa
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what class are box jellies in?
cubozoa
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what class are sea anemones and coral in?
class anthozoa
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what phylum are comb jellies in?
phylum ctenophora
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what phylum are flatworms in?
phylum Platyhelminthes
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what phylums are in Lophotrochozoans?
1. Phylum Platyhelminthes
2. Phylum Syndermata
3. Phylum Ectoprocta
4. Phylum Brachiopoda
5. Phylum Mollusca
6. Phylum Annelida
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what classes are in phylum Platyhelminthes ?
a. Class Turbellaria – free-living flatworms
b. Class Trematoda – flukes
c. Class Cestoda – tapeworms
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why phylum are rotifers in?
syndermata
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what class are snails and slugs in?
gastropoda
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what phylum are segmented worms in?
phylum annelida
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what phylums are in Ecdysozoans (invertebrates)?
1. Phylum Nematoda
2. Phylum Tardigrada
3. Phylum Arthropoda
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what phylum are round worms in?
phylum nematoda
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what phylum are water bears in?
phylum tardigrada
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what are the subphylums in arthropoda?
a. Subphylum Chelicerata
b. Subphylum Myriapoda
c. Subphylum Pancrustacea
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what phylum and subphylum are horseshoe crabs, spiders, ticks, scorpions in?
Phylum Arthropoda and Subphylum Chelicerata
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what phylum and subphylum are millipedes and centipedes in?
Phylum Arthropoda and Subphylum Myriapoda
