Sponges, Cnidarians, and Platyhelminthes Flashcards

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What are sponges widely considered as?

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basal animals - meaning it is sister to all other animals

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What are Choanoflagellates (in relation to animals)?

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sister taxon of animals
ancestral to sponges

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What is the other phylum that could be basal over sponges?

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Ctenophores

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What is the phylum name for sponges?

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Porifera

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WHat makes Sponges animals?

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similar embryonic development
simple immune system
ion channels to make neuron function
have homologous genes required to make neurons

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When did the first sponges appear?

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some fossils up to 710mya
most appear just before Cambrian period 560mya

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What are choanocytes?

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flagellated cells that set up currents that draw water into the cavity. and ingest and process food

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What is the mesohyl?

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gel-like and supports cells that form spicules and generate feeding and reproductive cells

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What are skeletons in some sponges made of?

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sipcules made of silica, calcium carbontae, or proteins
or spongin made of protein

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How do sponges gain nutrition?

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intracellular digestion - the circulating water contains food particles and dissolved organic matter, with cells lining the cavity capture by endocytosis

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What is significant about reproduction in sponges?

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no reproductive organs, but cells that migrate n to the mesohyl and differentiate as sperm or eggs
most are hermaphrodites

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Describe sexual reproduction in sponges

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sperm is released and taken up by another individual; fertilized eggs develop into ciliated free-swimming larvae which eventually differentiates into an adult sponge

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How can sponges reproduce asexually?

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fragmentation

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Describe Sponge diversity

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15000+ identified species most marine around 150 freshwater
cover almost every part of ocean
75% of biomass on floor of Antarctic ocean

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What differentiates Sponges from Choanoflagellates?

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multicellularity, gastrulation, collagen

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What differentiates Cnidarians from Sponges?

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Tissues

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WHta differentiates Cnidarians and Bilaterians?

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Cnidarians exhibit radial symmetry
Bilatarians exhibit Bilateral symmetry and complex organs

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What re distinct characteristics of Cnidarians

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Radially symmetrical
2 tissue layers with non cellular jelly like material between

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What re the features of the tissue layers in Cnidarians?

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Outer layer is epidermis
inner layer is the endodermis which lines the gastric cavity
in between these layers is a non-cellular jelly-like material (mesoglea)

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What are the types of Cnidarian body plans?

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Medusa form
Polyp form

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What is a Medusa form Body plan?

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bell-shaped or umbrella shaped body, with the mouth directed downward

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What is a Polyp form body plan?

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Tubular body with the mouth directed upward

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What is the nervous system in Cnidarians?

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epidermis and endodermis possess nerve cells arranges in a loose network of intersecting nerves - nerve net (plexus)

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How do Cnidarians obtain food?

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tentacles capture prey and direct it toward the mouth; digested in the gastric cavity
gastric cavity has one opening (for food intake and the elimination of waste)
no system for internal transport, gas exchange or excretion

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What is a diagnostic characteristic of the phylum Cnidaria?
stinging organelles (enidocytes)
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WHat do stinging organelles of cnidarians do?
enhance prey capture entangle prey or harpoon prey and inject a paralyzing toxin
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How does asexual reproduction work in Cnidarians?
budding or pedal laceration for sea anemones
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What is pedal laceration in sea anemones?
a new anemone is formed once a grown anemone moves away from an area, leaving behind some fragments of its pedal disc
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What are Hydrozoans?
Class of Cnidarians sessile (permanently attached or established) mostly marine most live in colonies of polyps
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WHat are Scyphozoans?
class of Cnidaria marne; free-swimming with prominent medusa (bell-shaped) morphology as adults
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What is sexual reproduction in Cnidarians?
external fertilization with zygotes becoming planula larvae
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WHat is the Poruguese man-of-war?
tentacles contain polyps with stinging nematocycsts paralyze small prey; cause immense pain to humans, often accompanied by allergic reactions that lead to fever, shock and heart and lung problems
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What is a Box Jellyfish?
Cubozoan class of Cnidaria Deadly venom containing toxins that attack the heart, nervous system and skin cells possess well-developed eyes.
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What are Anthozoans?
marine, sessile (fixed position), polyp morphology, mostly in colonies
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WHat are Anemones?
type of anthozoan larger= solitary smaller use asexual reproduction and live in large concentrations disc-shaped bottom to attach to rocks
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What are Hard Corals?
colonial; stony or reef building corals that form a skeleton made of calcium carbonate under the polyps to create the hard structure
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What are Soft Corals?
Colonial; do not build a hard, calcium-carbonate skeleton. Instead create internal structural supports of fibrous proteins that allow them to grow vertically but still sway with ocean currents
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What are zooxanthellae and dinoflagellates?
photosynthetic organelles that are found in tentacles providing energy to many hard corals
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What are Ctenophora?
comb jellies marine, radial symmetry food capture using tentacles, locomotion via ciliated comb plates bioluminescent
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Why do Ctenophores look like jellyfish but aren't part of the same phylum?
they lack stinging cells
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What are Placozoans?
only 4 known species, flat organisms commonly less than 4mm in diameter, marine and feed on algae
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How do Placozoans feed and move?
glide of surfaces grazing upon algae, which is digested externally no neurons present, but use peptides for cell communication in a manner resembling the way animals with neuropeptides
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What are Lophotrochozoa?
clade of 17 phyla - small marine animals either have a tentacle line organ for filter feeding - lophophore or a larva called trochophore
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What are Platyhelminthes? (Flatworms)
Acoelomates Ciliated epidermis (if present( digestive system with one opening (if present) circular and longitudinal muscle fibers mostly hermaphroditic
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What is the respiratory system in Flatworms like?
small size or thin bodies allows for gas exchange with environment by diffusion some respiratory structures in larger animals
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What is excretory system in Flatworms?
network of excretory tubules adjacent to flagellated flame bulbs or protonephridia
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What is sexual reproduction in flatworms?
hermaphrodites exhibit cross-fertilization penis is modified as a hollow stylet, with sperm transfer via hypodermic impregnation (turbellarians)
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WHat are turbellarians?
freeliving animals marine and freshwater carnivorous predators or detrivores
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WHat are parasitic flatworms?
Trematodes, or Cestodes
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What are Trematodes?
parasitize vertebrates as adults and mostly mollusks during larval stages external or in digestive tracts or organs
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What are Cestodes?
tapeworms - live in digestive tract no digestive tract themselves have a scolex and proglottids