Week 3 Flashcards
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opisthokonta
single posterior flagellum (when present)
fungi, choanoflagellates, animals
choanoflagellates
sister group to animals, very similar to collar cells in sponges
what surrounds the flagellum in opisthokonta
collar of microvilli
what does the beating of flagellum in opisthokonta do?
moves water through collar where food particles are filtered and collected
who shares a more recent common ancestor with the metazoa than the rest of the opisthokonta
choanoflagellates
what confirmed sponges are the earliest branch of the animal tree?
molecular phylogenetics
what happened when sponge genome was sequenced?
they are very similar t o other animals
what does sponge genome show evidence of?
all animals are descended from common ancestor of sponges and humans
what are the core building blocks of multicellular organisms?
cell specification
cell adhesion
self recognition
what is present in sponges?
all the core building blocks for complex multicellular organisms
what can sponges be used to study?
the origin of cancer
what does multicellularity go hand in hand with
cancer
what genes lead to cancer by their disruption
genes that regulate cell cooperation and division
where are the same genes that lead to cancer found?
sponges
Metazoa
waht makes something an animal?
motile, multicellular, heterotrophic eukaryotes ingest nutrient lack cell walls store carbs as glycogen characteristic development
glycogen
storage of glucose in animals
characteristic development in animals
generally go through blastula stage, with few characteristics development patterns that lead to different animal body plans
2 major early evolutionary branches of metazoa (animals)
1- parazoans
2- eumetazoans
parazoans
“beside animals”
no true tissues
collection of cells, no tissue-level organization
example of parazoans
sponges
eumetazoans
“true animals” have distinct, specialized tissues
example of eumetazoans
anything else
what sets parazoans from colonial protists
differentiated cells (true mulicellularity)
sponges
assemblege of cells in extracellular matrix