Overview
An animals nutritional mode
What is heterotrophic?
Invertebrates lack which structure?
What is a backbone?
What phylum of animal lack true tissues, symmetry, and have choanocytes?
What is Porifera (sponges) ?
The four major classes of molluscs
Polyplacophora (chitons),
gastropoda (snails and slugs),
bivalvia (clams, oysters), and
cephalopoda (squids, octopi, ect)
How most animals reproduce
What is sexually?
These are the two types of symmetry
What is radial and bilateral symmetry?
These two phylums exhibit radial symmetry and have two cell layers
What are Ctenophorans (comb jellies) and Cnidarians (jellies, corals, hydras) ?
An animal that develops mouth first
This is the "sessile" body plan of a Cnidarian
What is a polyp?
Animal that develops mouth second
What is deuterostome?
These are the three major clades that have bilateral symmetry and 3 embryonic cell layers
What are lophotrochozoa, ecdysozoa, and deuterostomia
This protist is considered the ancestor of all animals
What are Choanoflagellates?
What phylum have a musclular foot, a visceral mass, and a mantle?
What is Mollusca?