Lab Test #2 Flashcards
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What are multicellular, capable of locomotion or movement, have cells without a rigid cell wall, and are heterophobic?
Animals
Animals that lack vertebrates?
Invertebrates
What kind of symmetry can be divided into two equal halves?
Bilateral symmetry
What means definite head?
Cephalization
Which phylum contains animals known as sponges?
Porifera
What does Porifera mean?
Bearing pores
Sponges are what?
Multicellular
Most sponges are ( ), while all forms are aquatic.
Marine
Sponges are ( ), as adults but many disperse as free-swimming larvae
Sessile
What means immobile and attached to a surface?
Sessile
Sponges possess many different types of cells but lack what?
Definite tissue
Sponges are ( ), cannot be cut into two halves.
Assymetrical
The walls of sponges have numerous tiny openings called ( ), through which currents of water enter carrying food and oxygen to the central internal cavity called what?
Ostia
Spongocoel
In a sponge, water exists through a large opening called what?
Osculum `
In a sponge, the movement of water is produced by the beating of the flagella of what?
Collar cells, choanocytes, in the flagellated chambers, or radial canals
In a sponge what captures and digests food particles brought in by the water currents?
Choanocytes
A sponge has how many body layers?
3
In a sponge, the outer layer of flat epithelial cells, among which are contractile celled called ( ) that regulate the sizes of the ostia
Pinacytes
In a sponge, the middle layer of a gelatinous non-living matrix containing living mesenchyme celled ( ), which are capable of amoeboid movement
Amoebocytes
Amoebocytes function in the collecting of food from the flagellated collar cells, secrete the gelatinous matrix, collect wastes, produce ( ) and can differentiate into any of the other cell types
Spicules
In a sponge, what are the supportive skeleton of the sponge that are minute crystalline structures composed of either calcium carbonate or siliceous material
Spicules
In a sponge, what does the inner layer possess?
Collar cells
In a sponge, reproduction occurs how?
Asexually by budding, fragmentation, and in freshwater forms by gemmule formation
What consist of a ball of amoebocytes surrounded by a capsule of spicules and dead cells
A gemmule