Animal Diversity

Question 1

What is taxonomy?

Answer 1

Branch of biology concerned with naming and classifying

organisms

Question 2

What are the taxonomic clade levels from smallest to largest?

Answer 2

Species,genus,family,order,class,

phylum,kingdom and domain

Question 3

What is an example of an asymmetrical organism?

Answer 3

Sponge

Question 4

What is an example of a radically symmetric organism?

Answer 4

Jellyfish or starfish

Question 5

What is an example of a bilaterally symmetric organism?

Answer 5

flatworms, butterflies, and humans

Question 6

What are two organisms that develop from diploblastic tissue layers?

Answer 6

Two organism that develop from diploblastic tissue layers are sea anemones and corals

Question 7

What are two organism that develops from triploblastic tissue layers?

Answer 7

Roundworm and anthropoda

Question 8

What is Phylum Porifera?

Answer 8

A sponge (lowest multicellular animal)

Question 9

What is an Cnidarian?

Answer 9

a group made up of many invertebrate species that are Mostly marine animals. They are characterized by the specialized stinging structures in the tentacles surrounding the mouth; a coelenterate.

Question 10

What are example of Cnidarian?

Answer 10

any invertebrate animal, such as a hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone, or coral, considered as belonging to the phylum Cnidaria

Question 11

What are characteristics of a hydra?

Answer 11

(Tentacles, mouth and epidermisFound in fresh water,reproduces asexual/sexual, and don’t age/die

Question 12

What are the 9 major phyla?

Answer 12

Porifera,Cnidaria,nematodes,anthropods,platyhelminthes,annelids,mollusc,echnicodermata and chordata

Question 13

What are platyhelminths?

Answer 13

Flatworms(tape worms,threadworms,pinworms and blood flukes) characterized by a flat body & no organs

Question 14

What are Phylum annelids?

Answer 14

earthworms who have segment bodies closed circulatory system and a hydrostatic skeleton

Question 15

What are nematodas?

Answer 15

Roundworms (ascaris and trichnella) that are non segmented,have hydrostatic skeletons and false body cavities.

Question 16

What are Molluscs uses and characteristics?

Answer 16

Snail-like animals that naturally lack a shell (snail slug)characterized by three parts of the body such as the visceral mass,mantle and foot)

Question 17

What are the uses of mollusca and what are the parts of a Mollusca function?(visceral mass, mantle and foot)

Answer 17

Visceral mass- contains organs
Mantle - shell or gills (lungs)
Uses: skin care,food and agriculture

Question 18

What is PHYLUM ARTHROPODA?

Answer 18

An invertebrate animal have an exoskeleton like insects,spiders and crustaceans.

Question 19

What are examples of Echinodermatas?

Answer 19

Starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers

Question 20

What are four Characteristics of chordates?

Answer 20

Notochord,dorsal tubular nerve cord, pharyngeal pouches and tail.

Question 21

What are Characteristics of non-vertebrate chordates (notochord)?

Answer 21

Notochords like lancelets persist and are never replaced by a vertebral column

Question 22

What are characteristics of a vertebrate?

Answer 22

Has vertebral column,skull,endoskeleton,internal organs and efficient respiration and excretion

Question 23

What are the characteristics of agnathostomes?

Answer 23

Are jawless fishes (gills and no bony skeleton)

Question 24

What are characteristics of gnathostomes?

Answer 24

Jawed fish(lungs and bony skeleton)

Question 25

What are cartilaginous fishes and examples?

Answer 25

Chondrites with cartilage instead of bone. (Sharks,sting ray and skates)

Question 26

What are bony fishes and characteristics?

Answer 26

Bony fishes are fishes with bone skeleton. Mostly ray-finned fish or lobed finned fish.

Question 27

What are features of amphibians?

Answer 27

Usually are tetrapods,moist skin,lungs present in adults,ectothermic and uses water to aid in reproduction.

Question 28

What are features of a reptile?

Answer 28

Paired limbs,thick scale skin, lungs, ectothermic, lays eggs, has efficient respiration and excretion

Question 29

What are characteristics of birds?

Answer 29

Feathers,lay eggs,endothermic,four chambered heart,modified skeleton and lungs.

Question 30

What are characteristics of a mammal?

Answer 30

Hair, produces milk, has skeleton and internal organs

Question 31

What are the types of tissue?

Answer 31

Epithelial tissue,muscular tissue,nervous tissue and connective tissue

Question 32

What are the functions of epithelial tissue?

Answer 32

Covers body and organs to protect, secrete, absorb,excrete and filtrate

Question 33

What are the functions of connective tissue?

Answer 33

Transport fluids/material,protect organs,support tissue ,store energy and defend body

Question 34

What’s the function of muscular tissue?

Answer 34

Support skeleton,pumps blood and move substance in digestive tract.

Question 35

What are the functions of the nervous system?

Answer 35

Conduct signals,transmits information and motor output(reflex/response)

Question 36

What are Epithelial tissue types ?

Answer 36

Simple,stratified and transitional are epithelial tissue types.

Question 37

where are simple epithelial tissue found in body?

Answer 37

Squamous- blood and lungs Cuboidal - kidney Columnar- intestines

Question 38

Where is stratified epithelial tissue located in body?

Answer 38

Nose,mouth,anus,vagina,esophagus and skin

Question 39

Where are glandular epithelial what does it do?

Answer 39

(Excretes product) | exocrine glands= excretion into ducts endocrine glands=excretion into bloodstream

Question 40

Types of connective tissue?

Answer 40

Fibrous Supportive Fluid

Question 41

What is the composition and function of blood?

Answer 41

Rbc=transport oxygen WBC = immune support Platelet= clot

Question 42

What are the types of the muscular tissue?

Answer 42

Skeletal muscle, smooth muscle and cardiac muscle.

Question 43

What are the parts of a nueron?

Answer 43

dendrites, cell body & axon

Question 44

What are the 3 type of nueroglia and their functions?

Answer 44

Microglia-Supports neurons, engulf bacteria & and cellular debris. Astrocytes: Provides nutrients to neurons Oligodendrocytes - form myelin

Question 45

What is homeostasis?

Answer 45

Internal balance