Zoology Test 1b Flashcards
(40 cards)
What protozoan causes severe diarrhea worldwide?
Giardia, infects intestine form contaminated water by fecal matter
Dinoflagellate
- important to marine ecosystem
- protozoan
- toxins kill organisms and create red tides
type of dinoflagellate
- zooxanthellae: lives with coral, photosynthetic
ciliated protozoans
- possess cilia
- sexual reproduction, conjugation
- type: paramecium
apicomplexans
- taxoplasma
- plasmodium (malaria)
taxoplasma
- cat scratch fever
- if pregnant, one must avoid handling cat poop to avoid this parasite
- if already infected, no need to worry
plasmodium
- malaria
- can be debilitating illness
- carried by mosquitos
- look at life cycle
Ameba
- protozoan
- locomotion via pseudopodia
- feed by phagocytosis (holozoic)
- asexual reproduction
- freshwater out requires substrate (surface) for movement
What cause amebic dysentery?
entamoeba hystolitica
radiolarians
- glass-like silica structure
- oldest known protozoan
foraminiferans
- made of calcium carbonate
- multi-chambered
largets living biomass of any animal-like organism
sessile
attached to the bottom
filter feeders
bring in water and filter out food
size range of sponge
millimeters to two meters
life span of sponge
3 months to twenty years
Porifera
- parazoa
- lack organs, sensory systems, tissues
- have specialized cells
- multicellular
- date back to Cambrian period
parazoa
animal-like but not true animal
what is the evolutionary link between colonial protozoans and eumetazoans?
physical structure and ribosomal RNA analysis
eumetazoa
true animal
basic anatomy of sponge
- mass of cells in gelatinous mesophyl supported by spicules and protein fibers
- pinacocytes
- choanocytes
- archaeocytes
pinacocytes
“skin” cells
choanocytes
filtering “collar” cells
archaeocytes
differentiate into other cells (“stem” cells); manufacture other cells.
ostium
channels through which water moves