Porifera and Cnidaria Flashcards
(28 cards)
What porifera are simple, sessile and acquatic filter feeders and are aggregates of cells and do not for tissue?
Sponges
What part of the sponge is the internal cavity of the sponge?
Spongocoel
What part of the sponge are pores where food particles enter?
Ostia
What part of the sponge are exit pores?
Oscula
What part of the sponge are tubular cells surrounding the ostia?
Porocytes
What part of the sponge are collared and flagellated cells; major filter feeding cells?
Choanocytes
What part of the sponge are cells that make up the outer covering of the sponge?
Pinacocytes
What pat of the sponge are amoeboid cells that travel within the sponge’s middle layer and perform varioious functions such as transport and production of spongin and spicules?
Amoebocytes
What are mineralized structures that make up the skeleton of the sponge?
Spongin and spicules
What porifera class are the SIMPLEST sponges and spicules are rod or needle shaped and made of calcium carbonate?
Calcarea
What porifera class have spicules that are 6-rayed and are made of silica?
Hexactinellida
What porifera class have spongin fibers and siliceous spicules and have a wide variety of shaped?
Demospongiae
What porifera class have siliceous spicules that have an amorphous core and only sponges with a collagen basement membrane?
Homoscleromorpha
What are radially symmetric hollow bodies organisms where tissues are present and oral cavities are surrounded by circumoral tentacles?
Cnidaria
What part of the cnidaria are stinging cells used for feeding and defense?
Cnidocytes
What part of the cnidaria are gel-like substances that make up structures?
Mesoglea
What part of the cnidaria are sensory cells?
Rhopalia
What stage of cnidaria is the larval state?
Planula
What stage of cnidaria is the sessile stage?
Polyp
What stage of cnidaria is the pelagic stage?
Medusa
What polyp type is for gastrovascular activities?
Gastrozooids
What polyp type is for reproduction?
Gonozooids
What surrounds the colonial body of polyps?
Theca
What cnidaria class are solitary or colonial organisms with a dominant polyp form?
Hydrozoa