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What are the 5 classes of echinoderms

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Asteroidea- star fish 
Echinoidea-sea urchin
Crinoidea-feather star
Ophiuroidea-brittle star 
Holothuroidea-sea cucumber
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To which Phylum do the Clitellata belong?

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Annelida

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What is the name of the major, large group of animals to which arthropods and nematodes ?

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ecdysozoa

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What is the term for the unbranched limbs that insects and spiders have, in contrast to the ‘two-oar’ limbs of crustacea?

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Uniramous

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hat is the stiff rod that runs along most of the body in cephalochordates and the larvae of sea squirts?

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Notochord

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What are the 5 germ layers and what do they give rise to ?

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Ectoderm- skin and nervous system
Endoderm- Gut
Mesoderm- muscles 
Neural crest- cranial nerves
Placodes- teeth/ears
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What is the subphylum to which lancelets belong?

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cephalochordates

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What is the name of the toothed feeding structure that gastropods, chitons and cephalopods have?

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Radula

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What is a true coelom enclosed by?

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Peritoneum

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What is the name of the class of echinoderms that have both their mouth and their anus directed upwards?

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Crinoidea

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The bristles that characterise most annelid worms are called?

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Chaetae

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To which phylum do animals that have a rhynchocoel belong?

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Nemertea

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What is the name of the type of cell that is unique to Porifera among animals?

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Choanocytes

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What is the scientific name for the Order of insects that contains most species?

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Coleoptera

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What is the name of the Class that rays and sharks belong to?

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Chondrichthyes

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In nematodes, the main body cavity is ?

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A pseuodocoel made of vacuoles of enlarged cells

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What is the name of the structure that becomes an egg sac in earthworms and in leeches?

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Clitellum

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What type of cleavage do protostomes show ?

What type of cleavage deuterostomes show ?

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Spiral

Radial

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What is the feeding structure of Brachiopoda called?

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Lophophore

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What are the gills of molluscs are called?

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ctenidia

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What are the three classes of Porifera ?

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Demospongia (most common) e.g. spongilla
Calcarea
Hexactinellida

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What phylum do comb jellies belong to ?

What special cells do these comb jellies have ?

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Ctenophora

Ctenes

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What are the 4 classes of Cnidaria ?

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Anthozoa
Hydrozoa
Cubozoa
Scyphozoa

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What modern organism, that is similar to the cells that line the inside of sponges, is thought to be similar to the ancestor of animals?

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Choanoflagellates

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What is the term for a host animal in which a parasite becomes sexually mature ?
Definitive host
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Which mammalian order contains the greatest number of species?
Rodentia
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What is the name for the chemo-sensory structures on the undersides of scorpions?
Pectines
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What is the name for the malacostracan crustaceans that feed on phytoplankton and are an important food source for baleen whales?
Krill
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To which class do the sub-classes Actinopterygii and Sarcopterygii belong
Osteichthyes
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To what subphylum do the genera Balanus and Carcinus belong?
Crustcea
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To which phylum do worms that have a pseudocoelom and moult four times during their life cycle belong?
Nematoda
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What classes does the phylum Annelida include?
Polychaeta | Clitellata
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To which phylum do Turbellaria belong?
Platyhelminthes
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What is the head region of a tapeworm called?
scolex
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Which animals that have a ciliated corona and a tooth-like mastax?
Porifera
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Which class are sea anemones in?
Anthozoa | Phylum : cnidaria
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To which sub-phylum do springtails belong ?
Hexapoda | Sub-class: apterygota (wingless)|
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To which group of animals, sometimes called a superphylum, do Bryozoa and Mollusca but not Arthropoda belong?
Protostomes
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Which class of molluscs has the greatest number of species?
Gastropoda
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To which class does Rana temporaria belong?
Amphibia
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What type of animals does the phylum Platyhelminthes contain and what are the 4 classes ? Three of the classes have specific genera, name them and match them to their class.
``` Flat worms Turbellaria- Dugesia Trematoda -schistosoma Monogenea Cestoda- Taenia ```
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What type of animal does the phylum Bryozoa contain and give an example of this ?
Moss animal | Plumatella
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What type of animals are Branchiopoda ? And what does Branchiopoda mean ?
Lamp shells | Arm foot
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What is the name of the phylum that is associated with the term wheel bearer ? And give an example species ?
Rotifera | euchlanis
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What phyla has the most individual animals ?
Nematoda
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What subphylum does the phylum Arthropoda contain ? | And what type of animals do these contain ?
Crustacea -lobsters Chelicerata - spiders Myriapoda - centipedes Hexapoda - insects
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What are the 2 subclass within the class insects ? And what is the difference?
Apterygota -wingless | Pterygota-winged
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What are the 5 orders within the subclass pterygota ?
``` Odonata-dragonflies Orthoptera-grasshoppers Diptera-true flies Hymenoptera-bees Coleoptera-beetles ```
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What ecsysozoan phylas stands for slow walker and claw bearers and what animals are in these phyla ?
Tardigrada- water bears | Onychophora - velvet worms
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What are the 3 subphylum within the phyla chordata ?
Urochordata- sea squirts Cephalochordate- lancelets vertebrata
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What 3 classes are in the phylum vertebrata ?
Agnatha- lampreys and hag fish Chondrichthyes- rays and sharks Osteichthyes- bony fish
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What phylum do acorn worms belong in ?
Hemichordata
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What are the 4 groups of reptilia ?
Testudines-turtles Sphenodontia-tuatara Squamata-snake Crocodilia
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What are the 2 subclasses in the class mammal ?
Protheria | theria
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Within the group Eutheria what are the 3 orders ?
Rodentia Chiroptera-bats Primates
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What are the 3 types of coelom ? And describe them.
Acoelomate – no cavity. Pseudocoelomate – cavity filled with large cells. Coelomate – fluid-filled cavity lined with epithelia
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echinoids have pedicellariae, what are these?
Princer like jaws
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What sub classes do ray finned fish and lobe finned fish belong to ?
Actinopterygii | Sarcopterygii
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What do hox genes do and how man do humans have ?
Aid development | 39
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What is the process called when the first invagination into a blastula develops
Gastrulation
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How many openings does a flatworm gut usually have?
One | Tapeworms (Cestoda) have no gut.
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What phylum contains worms that can regenerate cells ad is considered a model organism?
Platyhelminthes
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What makes the nemertine proboscis evert?
Hydrostatic pressure in the rhynchocoel
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What species and type of worm does the class Polychaeta contain ?
Bristle worms Nereis Arenicola
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What species and type of worm does the class Clitellata contain ?
Oligochetes Earthworms: Lumbricus Leeches: Hirudo
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What class of worm have parapodia and explain parapodia ?
Polychaeta | lateral outgrowths
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What class of mollusc lacks the radula ?
Bivalvia
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What is the first larval stage called of molluscs that develop in the plankton?
Trochophore
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Being able to suspend your metabolism in adverse conditions is called what ? What phylum of worm can do this ?
Cryptobiosis | Nematoda
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What classes does the subphylum crustacea contain ?
Branchiopoda- daphnia Maxillopoda- barnacles Malacostraca- crabs
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What are strain detectors in spider cuticle called?
Lyriform organs
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Name a genus of arachnida
Aranea
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What are the two groups in the sub class theria ?
Marsupials- kangaroos | Eutheria
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What are the two types of primates ?
prosimians | anthropoids
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What are the two types of Chiroptera ?
Megachrioptera | Microchiroptera

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