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Where did trace fossils first come from?

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Animals going 3D- mixing sediments- burrowing- swimming- chasing

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When did transition from 2D ‘biomat world’ to 3D world occur?

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Cambrian start

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3 clades of bilateria?

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Lophotrocozoa, Ecdysozoa, Deuterostoma

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What phyla included in Deuterostomia?

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Echonoderms, Hemichordates and Chordates

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What do deuterstomia have in common?

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Deuterostomy and radial cleavage (these arent unique character)

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What are the 5 classes of Echinoderms?

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Asteroids (starfish); ophiuroids (brittle stars); Echinoids (sea urchins); holothurians (sea cucumbers); crinoids (sealilies + feather stars)

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What is pentaradial symmetry?

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5 fold

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4 important features of Echinoderms

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pentaradial symmetry, water vascular system, endoskeleton, marine

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What symmetry do starfish and brittlestars have?

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Bilateral- conserved from bilaterian ancestor?

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How do starfish feed?

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Gut extends down arms. Part of stomach extruded inside out into shell of prey, digestive juices released, can eat!

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What is a use of the water-vascular system in Echinoderms?

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Locomotion

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Feature of Ophiuroids (brittle star)?

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Thinner and bendier = for detritus feeding + NO ANUS

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What is between Echinoids ossicle pines (which are covered in living tissue)?

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Pedicellaria- chop up larvae that land- like little teeth

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What do Holothurians (sea cucumber) do when attacked?

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Eject Cuvierian tubules. If that doesn’t work.. .. then eject intestine!

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What are the 2 classes of Hemichordates?

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Enteropneusts (acorn worms) and Pterobranchs

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How do Enteropneusts (acorn worms from Hemichordata) feed?

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Pharyngeal slits- holes on side of body and cilia to make water current
+ filter feeds

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Name 6 features of a generalised chordate

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Pharyngeal slits; endostyle; dorsal hollow nerve chord; postanal tail; notochord; lateral muscles

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Function of Pharyngeal slits in chordates?

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Feeding and gas exchange

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Function of endostyle in chordates?

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Internal secretory structure of mucus - goes over pharyngeal slits

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what germ layer is doral hollow nerve chord derived from in chordates?

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ectoderm cells

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Function of notochord in chordates?

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Important for locomotion = skeletal structure down center of animal

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What are the 3 subphyla of the phylum chordata?

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Tunicates (urochordates); cephalochordates (amphioxus); vertebrates

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What are the 3 groups within Tunicates?

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Ascidiacaea (sea squirts); Larvacea; Thalacea

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What does sessile mean?

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Immobile

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What is name for thick cellulose coat found on Ascidians?
Tunic
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Where did genes for tunic of Ascidians (sea squirts) come from?
Horizontal gene transfer (from bacteria)
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What do larvacea look like?
Sexually mature tadpoles in jelly houses
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What do Thaliacea look like?
Sea quirts- but they can SWIM
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What are 2 major changes in amphioxus (cephalochordata) body plans?
Notochord extends past brain for stiff tip for burrowing. | Pharyngeal slits no longer interact with outside world as water goes in atrial cavity and out atrial pore
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What are the 3 clades of bilaterina?
Lophotrochozoa, ecysozoa and deutrostomia
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What phyla are included in Ecdysozoa?
2x wormy; nematodes and nematomorphs | 3x leggy; tardigrades onychophora and arthropods
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What do ecdysozoa have in common?
They moult (ecdysis)
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Name 2 characters of nematode worms
Stiff (non-stretchy cuticle) and NO segmentation
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How do nematode worms move?
Stiff but bendy cuticle and antagonistic longitudinal muscles = SINOUS BODY WAVES
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How to nematode worms solve problem of high pressure squeezing out gut contents?
Muscles - e.g. triradiate pharynx at mouth
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How does nematode cuticle have spring effect?
Several layers of helical cortical fibres in different directions
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Give an example of a nematode worm parasite with a 2 host life cycle
Onchocerca volvulus= river blindness | - humans and black flies
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How do we exploit nematode worms?
Use as biological control e.g. slug killer | BUT this is introducing invasive species
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What is the developmental model system nematode worm?
C. elegans
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How are nematomorphs different to nematodes?
CRAZY LONG AND REDUCED GUT
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How do nematopmorph larvae return to water once developing inside adult cricket?
MIND CONTROL- makes cricket wander eratically
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What can tardigrades do when not in water?
anyhydrobiosis
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What is anyhydrobiosis?
organism becomes dry and dormant until living conditions are favorable.
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how were ECDYSOZOA discovered as a clade?
DNA sequencing
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What is a key feature of annelids?
Segmentation
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What clade do lophotrocozoa belong tp?
Bilateria
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What does vermiform mean?
Worm-shaped
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What is a hydrostatic skeleton?
big fluid filled spaces (water not very compressible) e.g. in annelids
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Why are annelids always aquatic?
Have water permeable skin
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What are the 3 classes of annelida?
polychaeta, oligochaeta and hurudinea
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What are the 2 main types of polychaetes?
Errant (mobile) and sedentary
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What are parapodia in polychaetes?
Triangles on sides, like oars for extra power
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How do polychaetes reproduce?
dioecious- external fertilisation and larval stage
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Differences between polychaetes?
1- freshwater 2- no parapodia 3- no eyes/ tentacles on head 40- hermaphrodite
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What does the clitellum do in oligochaetes?
secretes mucus coccon to pick up eggs and sperm - then leaves all behind
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How were leeches used in microsurgery?
used for anticoagulants and to remove blood
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what 3 features of flat worms tell you they're bilateria?
1- three germ layer 2- bilateral symmetry 3- centralised nervous system
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What feature do flatworms lack that are seen in other bilateria?
no body cavity, no gills, no blood system, no anus
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What is an eversible pharynx?
can go inside out e.g. flatworms
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Where do polyclads exist?
MARINE
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What is a neoblast?
adult stem cell
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what is amazing about triclad (planarian) regeneration?
cut any part and whole body will regenerate
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How do cestodes (parastic flatworms) grow?
from middle- pushing segments out
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what is the second biggest phylum after arthropods?
mollusca
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Name 2 major body plan features of molluscs?
trough-gut and not-segmented
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What are molluscs shells made of?
Mantle = extracellular caco3 + proteins
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why do mollusc shells coil?
to increase volume as can only grow at edges
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What are the 3 main classes of mollusca?
gastropoda, bivalvia, cephalopoda
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What are 3 characteristic traits of gastropoda?
1- 1 shell 2- use radula 3- slow moving grazer
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What is torsion in gastropods?
body twists 190 degrees anticlockwise during development
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What is an interesting defence mechanism in nudibranchs?
Eat immature nematocysts from prey- out at tips of cerata and use to sting
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What are 3 main characteristic traits of Bivalvia (mollusca)?
2 shells, foot in between, no radula
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What is an example of a developed ccephalopod?
octopus, squid, cuttlefish
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how do cephalopoda move?
gas in shell for up and down and water expulsion fro propulsion
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do bivalvia have eyes?
not generally but some evolved constructive interference e.g. scallops
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What are the 3 subphyla of chordates?
Urochordates, cephalochordates, vertebrates
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What are the 2 main components of bone?
collagen fibres and calium PHOSPHATE crystals
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What do osteoblasts do?
make bone
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What do osteoclasts do?
break down bone
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What do osteocytes do?
detect strain and cracks
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What part of body plan, in somite, forms bone?
Sclerotome
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What do neural crest cells form?
sensory nerves, pigment cells, nerves in gut and autonomic nervous system + in head forms more skeleton

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