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How many tissue layers do Cnidarians have?
2 (endotherm, ectoderm)
Mesoglea
Extracellular matrix between the endoderm and ectoderm
Advantage of polymorphism
Increased efficiency due to increased number of
Advantages of polymorphism
Increased efficiency due to increased number
Mesenteries
Increase the surface area availa for digestion by collecting/ covering a greater area to catch prey
Coral bleaching
Loss of colour due to environmental stress
Alternation of generations
Alternation between diploid and haploid life stages
Components of a hydrostatic skeleton in a sea anemone
Contractile cells that contract changing the volume of fluid in certain areas of the body
Sea Anemones life cycle
They can reproduce asexually (budding/fission)
And sexually- free spawning or brooding ( THERE IS NO MEDUSA STAGE)
Advantage of Colonial growth
High surface area:volume ratio; greater chance of colony surviving
Asexual process unique to scyphozoans
Strobilation (polyp divides multiple free swimming medusae)
Seyphozoan Medusae
Elongated manumbrium into 4 orals lobes
Gonads inside gastrovascular cavity
No vellum
Mesoglea
Extracellular matrix between the endoderm and ectoderm
Platyhelminthes- digestion
Incomplete gut. Pharynx connects the mouth to the intestine.
Platyhelminthes- evolution
Mesoderm; protonephridia; unidirectional, gas exchange; no coelom
Oligochaete and clitellata posses…
Posses a clitellum (pronounced glandular region of the epidermis
Oligochaetes (earthworms)
Few setae; parapodia; move by peristalsis (complete septa); hermaphrodite
Cestoda (tapeworms)
Superflat (diffusion); scolex (hook mouth); body is proglotids ( packets with male and female organs, which detach from the end and self fertilise each other)
Cephalopods are the only mollusks with…
a closed circulatory system
The radula is presented in all mollusks but
bivalves- they respirate and feed via elongated ctenidia
Benefits and negatives of shell
Protection; restricted growth and movement
Mollusks body plan
4 part body plan (head, foot, mantle, visceral mass, cephalised
Mantle Cavity
A space formed by folded dorsal body plan. Contains ctenidia and openings to the gut, gonads
Ctenidia
An unique gill, responsible for gas exchange, they have ciliated filaments to keep the water pumping ( also increases surface area)