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Metazoans Flashcards

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What are Metazoans?

A

Multicellular animals

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What fossil record do metazoans dominate?

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Phanerozoic (Cambrian to present)

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What does multicellularity allow for?

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Specialisation of cells

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What are some examples of cell specialisation?

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Locomotion
Respiration
Reproduction
Nutrient acquisition (feeding)

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What 2 ways can metazoans be separated by embryo?

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Spiralians
Radialians

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What are spiralinas?

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cells spiral within embryo

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What are some examples of animals with Spiralians?

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Molluscs and Arthropods

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What are some examples of organisms with radialians embryos?

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Cnidarians
Brachiopods
Bryozoans
Echinoderms
Hemichordates

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9
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What are the vast amount of metazoans?

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protostomes

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How are protostomes different from Deuterostomes?

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Protostomes mouth develops first deuterostomes anus develops first

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What are the sister groups to metazoans?

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Fungi and Choanoflagellata

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When are metazoans first thought to have been present?

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At the base of the Cambrian but Ediacaran life has meant maybe pre-Cambrian

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What are phylum porifera?

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sponges

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What are sponges like?

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Very simplistic although some articulated specimens might have spicules made of biogenic silicon

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What do sponges do?

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Filter water for nutrients

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What are Stromatoporoids?

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sponges produced by calcium carbonate instead of silica which are now extinct but were common reef builders in Palaeozoic

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What is an example of where stromatoporoids can be found?

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Wren’s nest

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What is included under the group Cnidarians?

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Jellyfish
Sea anemones
Corals

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What is the complexity of Cnidarians like?

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simplest of common true metazoans (besides sponges) - few distinct tissues in radial plan

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What is the mode of life for sea anemones and corals?

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Attached (sessile)

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21
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What is the mode of life for jellyfish?

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Free swimming (pelagic)

22
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What is the cycle of mode of life for Cnidarians?

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Jellyfish can be attached to polyp and then placed into water column but can then potentially sink back don becoming attached

23
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What are Zoantharian corals?

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hard corals- largely mineralised (have the best fossil record)

24
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What is the epitheca of Cnidarians?

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The outer wall

25
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What is the mesentries of Cnidarians?

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in polyp (fold like tissue) secrete septa (struts)

26
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How are mesentries best seen?

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horizontal sections

27
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What are tabulae?

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horizontal sheets in the corallite

28
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What are dissepiments?

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small curved sheets commonly close to epitheca (bubble warp to outer wall)

29
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What are rugose corals composed of?

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CALCITIC

30
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What is the septal insertion of rugose corals?

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Serial insertion

31
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What is the process of serial insertion of septa for rugose corals?

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Protoseptum
Cardinal and counter cardinal
Buttressed by alar
Counter lateral

32
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What is the septal insertion of Sclerantinian corals?

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Cyclic

33
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When were Kilbuchophyllia present?

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Mid-Ordovician

34
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What are Kilbuchphyllia an example of?

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Iterative evolution

35
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What is iterative evolution?

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When the same/ similar morphologies appear through evolution

36
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What are Kilbuchophyllia similar to?

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septal insertion and microstructure identical to scleractinians

37
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What wiped out the evolutionary experiment which was Kilbuchophyllia?

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located in one locality in scotland on the side of a volcano prone to landslip which is thought to have wiped them out

38
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What does Kilbuchophyllia demonstrate?

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potential for the mineralisation of other soft bodied anemones

39
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What are all living zoantharian?

A

scleractinian

40
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How can scleractinians be ecologically divided?

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hermatypic zooxanthellate
ahermatypic azooxanthellate

41
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What are ahermatypic azooxanthellate?

A

don’t have symbiotic algae

42
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What are hermatypic zooxanthellate?

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have symbiotic photosynthesizing algae within inner cell layer

43
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What conditions are needed by hermatypic zooxanthellate?

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Photic zone- shallow water (>50m)
Minimum water temperature 18 deg C
Normal marine salinity
Firm non-muddy substrate

44
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What conditions are needed by ahermatypic azooxanthellate corals

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Common up to 500 m (extend to 6000 m)
Tolerate cold waters (0 deg C)
Most do not build reef-like structures
but some do

45
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What is a location where ahermatypic azooxanthellate are found?

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Darwin Mounds: glass sponge Aphrocallistes and cold water coral Lophelia (affected by trawling and gas exploration)

46
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What is a coral reef?

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presence of a framework structure is rigid and wave resistant (hermatypic zooxanthellate)

47
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What are bioherms?

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formed below wave base ahermatypic azooxanthellate

48
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What is growth rate controlled by in modern coral reefs for hermatypic zooxanthellate?

A

Growth Rate and Form vary depending on light and water depth

49
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What did Palaeozoic coral growth rate vary based on?

A

Growth Rate and Form typically vary
depending on substrate and sedimentation

50
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How should genus and species be represented with an example?

A

Genus first letter capital
, species in italics
Domestic cat= Felis catus (italics)

51
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What is a species when applying it to corals?

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a taxonomic division that generally refers to a group of organisms which are similar in structure

52
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What is an example of a fasciculate coral?

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Phaceloid - corallites infilled by matric

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