Animal Basics
What protein provides structural support for animal ells instead of cell walls?
What is Collagen?
What is Phylum Porifera?
Flatworms that are free-living members of Phylum Platyhelminthes.
What are Planarians?
The process done by arthropods in order to grow.
The type of development mode that humans are. (ex: Protostomes/Deuterostomes)
What are Deuterostomes?
Animals that obtain energy by eating other organisms are called what?
What is a Heterotroph?
Specialized cells in sponges that engulf food particles by phagocytosis.
What are Choanocytes?
Structure that animals in Phylum Mollusca use to secrete a shell.
What is a Mantle?
The three defining features of arthropods.
What are Segmented Body, Jointed Appendages, and Exoskeleton?
The chordate group that’s also known as lancelets.
What is Cephalochordata?
The three germ layers found in Triploblastic animals.
What are Ectoderm, Mesoderm, and Endoderm?
What are Polyp and Medusa?
The clade from Phylum Mollusca that includes snails and slugs.
What is Gastropoda?
The substance that makes up and arthropod’s exoskeleton.
The phylum that includes ALL vertebrates.
What is Phylum Chordata?
The process that involves repeated mitosis divisions without cell growth.
What is Cleavage?
Two main clades of Phylum Cnidaria.
What are Medusozoa and Anthozoa?
The clade from Phylum Mollusca that includes Chitons.
What is Polyplacophora?
The arthropod clade that includes spiders and scorpions.
What is Chelicerata?
The structure that provides echinoderms with locomotion and feeding.
What is the Water Vascular System?
Gene family that plays a key role in body segment development across many animals.
What is Hox Genes?
The increase in seawater temperature clears out algal symbionts. Caused by global warming.
What is Coral Bleaching?
Something produced by Earthworms and vital to improving the texture of the soil.
What are Fecal Castings (mucus)?
The crustacean group that includes pill bugs.
What are Isopods?
Jawless vertebrates that produce slime to deter predators.
What are Hagfish?