Kingdom Animalia

Question 1

Animals:
Eukaryotic or prokaryotic

Cells: single or multi?

Autotroph or heterotroph?

Do they have a nervous system?
Cell walls?

How many animal phyla?

Answer 1

Ø
Eukaryotic
Ø
Multicellular
Ø
Heterotrophic
Ø
Have a nervous system (simple or complex)
Ø
Their cells lack cell walls

There are 36 recognized animal phyla

Question 2

Phylum Cnidaria (needaria)
Animals in this phylum:

How many body form:

body form:

How do they eat?

What are cnidocyte cells

Answer 2

Jellyfish, corals, hydras and sea anemones

2
medusa (jellyfish) Mobile
polyp Coral stationary
Jelly like body.

Central mouth
Tentacles

stinging cells= release threads and immobilize the prey

Question 3

Phylum: Platyhelminthes

How many types?

How do there parasites get into the body of humans?

1) planarians

2) flukes

3) tapeworm

Answer 3

Flatworms
bodies are flat

–aquatic, free-living- not parasitic

–parasites
–cause many diseases, widespread problem in certain parts of the world
bury in the skin and get into the blood vessels

parasites live in intestines of humans and other animals
-in intermediate host of pig, can form in cyst form. When humans eat it, they will come in human

Question 4

What are phylum Nematoda

Segmented?

Live

free-living or parasitic?

Answer 4

roundworms, also hookworms

no,
two holes, one to eat, one to excrete

soil and water

both

Question 5

Phylum Annelida

Segmented

Appearance

How do segments help them

Answer 5

Segmented worms
e.g. earthworm, clam worms, leeches

yes

Body resembles set of fused rings

Segments give earthworms mobility and flexibility for burrowing in the soil

Question 6

(Domain Eukarya, Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Annelida)

An earthworm is…..

Clamworm is

Leeches

Answer 6

• tube shaped
  -commonly lives in soil
  -feeds and lives on dead organic matter
• tube shaped
  -aquatic
  -feeds and lives on dead organic matte

Segmented
blood suckers
Were used to treat blood circulation problems and

Question 7

Phylum Arthropoda

Big phylum or not?

What makes them different?

chitin
molting

Jointed appendaged

Answer 7

insects, crustaceans, spiders

largest phylum, most diverse on Earth
Colonized nearly every habitat

1. They have an exoskeleton
   Exoskeletal means they can live in a variety of places

Polysaccharide of glucose

Legs always have joints for locomotion, feeding, defense, reproduction

Question 8

Phylum Chordata

5 distinctive features are

Answer 8

e.g humans, birds, reptiles

1) dorsal, hollow nerve cord
2) notochord (flexible rod
located between digestive
tract and nerve cord)
3) pharyngeal gill slits
hollow
4) post-anal tail
5) iodine binding gland
(thyroid gland in humans)

Question 9

Phylum Chordata is subdivided into how many groups

Give examples of first group In_________________

Where do they live

Answer 9

1. Invertebrates- No backbone
2. Vertebrates
3. tunicates body jelly-like live in water- sedentary. Gets water through incurrent cycle
4. lancelets- often on sad, hiding

Question 10

What are the 2nd group of chordates?

What class do humans belong to ?

What characteristics are in this class?

How can the group Mammalia be sub divided?

Answer 10

Vertebrates- have a endoskeleton- a skull and a backbone, which consists of vertebrae

Mammalia- mammals

1. hair
2. Mammary glands
3. Monotremes- lays eggs
4. Marsupials- pouches
5. Eutherians- placenta

Question 11

What are monotremes?

Examples of this animals

What do they not have?

Answer 11

group of mammals whose female lays eggs

platypus
echidnas (spiny anteaters)

no nipples but feeds young from pores in their body

Question 12

What are marsupials?

Examples

live

Brief _________period

Give birth to tiny offspring that
completes development while

The nursing young is housed in a

Answer 12

group of mammals that have pouches

kangaroos, opossum, koala, bandicoot

Australia, New Zealand

gestation
(embryo
nourished by placenta)
Ø

attached to mother’s nipple(s)
Ø
pouch (marsupium)