Sponges And Acoelomates Flashcards

(37 cards)

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Cladorhizids

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A canivorous family of demospongia

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Choanoblasts

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Multiple collar bodies/flagella associated with a single nucleus

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Syncytial

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An epithelium or tissue characterized by cytoplasmic continuity, or a large mass of cytoplasm not separated into individual cells and containing many nuclei.

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Trabecular reticulum

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Forms an extremely thin giant multinucleated cell that forms the outer skin (called the dermal membrane), and acts like a nervous system, conveying impulses to all parts of the body

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Sclerocytes

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secrete spicules

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6
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Cephalisation

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Sense organs concentrated in head

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Pelagic

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Inhabit the upper layers of the sea

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Neodermis

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External cuticle like body covering in platyhelminthes

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Proteolytic enzymes

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Extracellular digestive enzyme secreted in platyhelminthes intestine

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10
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Proboscis

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Can be thrusted outwards to quickly grasp prey in nemertea

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Rhynchocoel

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Houses probiscis. A coelem

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Gravid proglottid

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Mature proglottid. Houses about 80 to 100, 000 eggs.

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Spongocytes

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Secrete spongin

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Collencytes

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Secrete collagen

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15
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Flame cells

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Part of the excretory system

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16
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Nemertea

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Ribbon worms, proboscis worms

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Taenia Solium

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Pork Tapeworm

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Cysticerci

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Young tape worms

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Cysticercosis

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Cysticercosis is a parasitic tissue infection caused by larval cysts of the tapeworm Taenia solium

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Taenia sagina

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Beef tape worm

21
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Oncosphere larvae

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Hatched from gravid proglottid egg burrow into intestinal wall of cow and carried to muscle

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Cysticerus stage

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Bladder worm. Scolex is inverted in a sac

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Microtrioches

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Projections on the outside of cestoda, like microvilli, increase absorption of food.

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Prohaptor and opisthaptor

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Structure in monogenea used for attachment to fish gills and feeding

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Schistosome dermatitis other name and description
Cercarial dermatitis and Inflammory response caused by a cercariae seeking a bird that entered the human skin. Swimmer's itch
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Blood fluke
Schistosoma mansoni
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Miracidium larvae
Trematoda - Hatches inside a snail from egg
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Sporocyst
Develops from miracidium larvae
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Rediae
Produced asexually from sporocysts
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Cercariae
Produced from redia
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Metacercarial cysts
Produced from cercarciae boring into fish and encyst in muscle tissue
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Metacercariae
Hatch from cercariae in metacercarie cysts
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Clonorchis Sinensis
Chinese liver fluke
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Copulatory groove
Blood flukes, male have and females slide in
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Rheoreceptors
Sense direction of water
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Protonephridia
Flame cells
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Weirs
Tube around flame cells