Sponges & Cnidaria
The vital interaction between organisms which plays a key role for each of these animal groups
What is symbiosis
The type of growth exhibited by these groups
What is continuous?
The Greek root for foot
What is pod
The shared physical characteristic of arthropods, nematodes, and tardigrades, and the primary material it's made of (2 answers)
What is the exoskeleton and chitin?
The type of symmetry displayed by cnidaria
What is radial
Ecological significance of annelids
What is nutrient cycling and soil aeration.
Function of chromatophore structures found in octopuses and squid
What is camouflage ?
Biological system that first appeared in arthropods
What is the respiratory system?
The primary evolutionary driver of radial symmetry
What is predation
Function of flattened body in flatworms
What is surface area for diffusion?
State that tardigrades enter that allows them to survive extreme conditions by slowing down their metabolic activity
What is cryptobiosis
The three environmental conditions under which choanoflagellates thrived in the late precambrian
What are Stable conditions (e.g., nutrients), Shallow seas, and Increased oxygen levels from cyanobacteria
Digestive advancements of annelids
What is a complete gut with enzymatic digestion
Three body plan features of mollusks
What are muscular feet, visceral masses, mantles secreting calcium carbonate / calcification
Small holes in insect abdomen or thorax for gas exchange
What are spiracles
The two specialized cells which form the harpoon-like structure cnidarians use for predation
What are Nemotocysts (coiled stinger) and Cnidocytes (stinging cells) ?
The formal Latinate name for flatworms
What is Platyhelminthes?
Four classes of mollusks
What are cephalopods, bivalves, gastropods and chitons
The three common features of arthropods nematodes and tardigrades
What are exoskeletons, molting, and bilateral symmetry