How do animals get their nutrition?
Heterotrophic. Ingest food, enzymes digest.
Most fossils have what type of symmetry?
Bilateral
Name the 3 types of symmetry.
Bilateral, radial, none.
What is a sister group to all other animals?
Sponges
I am on the football team. What position do I play?
Wide receiver
What is the most abundant protein that provides structural support for animal cells?
Collagen
The Paleozoic era has this event where we see the rise of about 1/2 of all extant species
The Cambrian Explosion
Animals with only 2 germ layers...
Diploblastic
What clade do most animals belong to, having 3 germ layers?
Bilateria
What city am I from?
Ludington
What forms at the end of the cleavage stage?
Blastula
Morphological evidence suggest that what are the closest relatives of animals?
Choanoflagellates
A body cavity that forms between the mesoderm and the endoderm is called what?
Hemocoel
What is the process of shedding an old skeleton?
Ecdysis
What is my major?
Environmental Science
Name the 3 levels produced by the gastrula.
ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm
Fossils from the Neoproterozoic era were found in what Australian hills?
Ediacaran
What type of cleavage gives protostomes?
What phylum includes parasitic flatworms?
Platyhelminthes
What is my middle name?
Daniel
What is the sexually immature stage of an animal?
Larval stage
Name the 3 periods that followed the Cambrian.
Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian.
The germ layer that diploblastic organisms do not have is what?
Mesoderm
What are the two forms of cnidarians?
Polyp and medusa
What 2 other sports did I play in high school?
Baseball and basketball