Protozoans
Cnidaria
Porifera
Phylogenetic Diagrams
Body Plans
100
Trypanosoma or Plasmaodium
What is one genus name we learned in lecture that causes a human disease?
100
This term refers to the specialized cell that released a barb and thread after stimulation, some of which contain a toxin.
What is the cnidocyte?
100
The specialized cell that acts in feeding and current generation.
What is the choanocyte?
100
This term refers to a node and all the descendants of that common ancestor.
What is a monophyly or clade?
100
Metamerism or segmentation.
What is a homoplastic trait of serial repetition of similar body segments along the longitudinal axis?
200
The four types of living arrangements that Protozoans can exhibit.
What are free-living, mutualism, parasitism, and commensal?
200
This type of digestion occurs outside the cell membrane which is more advanced than in previous taxa and this is the cavity it occurs in.
What is extracellular digestions and what is the gastrovascular cavity?
200
Calcium carbonate and siliceous.
What are the two main types of spicules used to distinguish Porifera classes?
200
A term for taxa that share an ancestor and are each other's closest relative.
What is a sister taxa?
200
The term referring to the head and tail regions of the body, respectively.
What are cranial and caudal?
300
Examples of Protozoan endoskeletons and exoskeletons.
What are pellicles or mircotubules, and shells or tests?
300
This structure senses light and gravity and this one uses gravity to act as a balance organ.
What is the Rhopalium and the Statocyst?
300
This is the water flow plan of the Syconoid sponges.
What is Ostium->Incurrent canal->prosopyle-> radial canal-> Apopyle-> Spongocoel-> Osculum?
300
The terms for omitting one lineage of a common ancestor and the term for omitting two or more lineages of a common ancestor.
What is paraphyly and polyphyly?
300
These are the characteristics of Protostomes
What are mouth forming from the blastopore, spiral cleavage, schizocoely, and mosaic embryos?
400
A process of reproduction where haploid male micronuclei are exchanged.
What is conjugation?
400
This is the asexual reproduction methods of the Class Anthozoa.
What are pedal laceration/transverse fission?
400
These are three choanocyte lined chambers in the Asconoid, Syconoid, and Leuconoid sponges.
What is the spongocoel, the radial canal, and the flagellated chamber?
400
Characteristics similar due to independent convergent evolution.
What is a homoplasy?
400
This is the stage of embryogenesis where germ layers first begin to form.
What is a gastrula?
500
Organisms belonging to this level of classification display alveoli or related membrane structures below the plasma membrane.
What is the clade Alveolata?
500
These are two characteristics that distinguish the class Scyphozoa from Hydrozoa.
What are lack of a velum and an inconspicuous or absent polyp stage?
500
These two functions are accomplished as diffusion via contractile vacuoles.
What are Excretion and respiration/osmoregulation?
500
The terms for shared unique derived characteristics and shared primitive or ancestral characteristics.
What is a synapomorphy and a plesiomorphy?
500
These are the 5 levels of tissue organization.
What are the Protoplasmic, cellular, cell-tissue, tissue-organ, and organ system?
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