Lab Exam 3 Flashcards
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What type of organization do sponges have?
Cellular-level
What term describes how sponges get their food?
Filter-feeder
Where does water enter the sponge?
Ostia
What type of sponge cell has flagella that keeps water moving and captures food particles?
Choanocytes
What type of symmetry do sponges have?
None!
What sponge life stages are mobile and sessile?
Adults are sessile and larvae are mobile
Where does water exit the sponge?
Osculum
What structures make up the skeleton of the sponge?
Spicules
What types of asexual reproduction occur in sponges?
Budding, fragmentation, or by forming gemmules (clusters of amoebocytes enclosed in hard shells)
What structure is created by sponges to survive adverse conditions?
Amoebocytes
What do hydras (cnidaria) usually eat?
Small invertebrates
What characteristics make a hydra an animal?
Multicellular, tissue organization, are heterotrophs
What type of symmetry do hydra have and what level of organization?
Radial and tissue-level
What two body forms do cnidarians have?
Medusae and polyps
How many embryonic tissue layers do cnidarians have?
Two, so diploblastic
What are the inner and outer layers of cnidarians called?
The gastrodermis and epidermis
What is the jelly-like matrix in the middle of cnidarians?
Mesoglea
What cnidarian structure is involved in feeding/digestion?
The gastrovascular cavity
What symmetry do flatworms (Platyhelminthes) have?
Bilateral
What two groups of flatworms are parasitic?
Clonorchis and Fasciola
What group of flatworms are free-living?
Turbellaria
How does the planaria move? (Platyhelminthes)
With the ciliated epidermis
What two types of sensory organs do planarians have?
Nervous and digestive
The pointed lobes on the side of planarians’ heads are called?
Auricles