Bio 108 - Lecture 17 Flashcards
Parazoa Characteristics
Para=
Zoo=
Considered to be basal to all other animals and lack true tissues
Beside
Animal
Two Phylums Parazoa belong too
1) Almost all belong to Phylum Porifera
2) Phylum Placozoa, only one species does
What Species Belongs to Phylum Placozoa
Trichoplax adharerens
Totipotent
cells can transform to do all jobs
Phylum Porifera Characteristics
Por=
Fer=
- No tissues or organs
- Structural Support comes from spicules
- Spicules can be calcareous or silicious
- Spongin is tough collagen-protein network for support
= Pore
= To bear
Two main types of cells in Phylum Porifera
1) Amoebocytes
- Form outside of surface of the sponge
- Carry food to other cells
2) Choanocytes
- Line inside of sponge
Mesophyl in Porifera?
Meso=
Hyl=
A gelatinous acellular layer between the outer skin and the choanocyte layer
= middle
= stuff
Porifera Eating
Suspension feeding
Food particles are phagocytosed
Simultaneous Hermaphrodites vs Sequential
Simultaneous - are male and female at the same time
Sequential - are first one sex, then change to be the other
Behaviour of Zygote in Porifera
1) Zygote is retained until it develops into ciliated larva
2) Ciliated cells drop or reabsorb cilia, then grow flagella
Ecology and Importance of sponges
- bioprospecting for pharmaceuticals
- make sponges
- reefs
Two Phylums of Radiata
1) Phylum Cnidaria
2) Phylum Ctenophora
Characteristics of Radiata
- True differentiated tissues
- Diploblastic
- Have organs
- Radial Symmetry
Phylum Cnidaria
- Jellyfish, hrdras, corals
- Gastrodermis lines body cavity
- Epidermis on the outside
Mesogloea
acellular matrix in between gastrodermis and epidermis
Morphology of Cnidaria
- Mouth but no anus
- Tentacles for prey capture
- Enidocytes
Two basic body forms of Cnidaria
1) Polyp: oral end upwards, aboral end attached to substrate
2) Oral end downwards and aboral up, free floating in water
Cnidocytes
Unique cells
- Each cell contains very complex endocellular structure
- Used for defence and prey capture
4 Classes of Cnidaria
1) Class Hydrozoa
2) Class Scyphozoa
3) Class Cubozoa
4) Class Anthozoa
Class Hydrozoa
- Has most species
- Both polyp and medusa in life cycle
- Has life cycle very similar to alternation of generations
Class Scyphozoa
Scyph =
- Spend most of life as medusa
- Scyph = cup
- Swim by contracting network of fibres around circumference of bell
= Cup
Class Cubozoa
- Look very similar to Scyphozoa
- Complex light and movement eyes along perimeter
- Extremely toxic cnidocytes
Class Anthozoa
- Entirely polyps stage
- Corals
Zooxanthellae
- Symbiotic algae
- Coral bleaching due to loss of