Non-bilaterians
This type of cell is responsible water current formation and collection of food particles in sponges.
What are choanocytes/collar cells?
Annelids have these locomotive structures protruding from parapodia.
What are setae?
Which group of mollusks exhibits torsion?
What is a gastropod?
This group of arthropods has three (3) tagmata.
What are insects?
Organisms that feed by "eating" their way through the soil are described as this.
What is a deposit feeder?
Cnidarians have these specialized stinging cells.
What are cnidocytes?
Representatives of this phylum are leeches, tube worms, and earthworms.
What is Phylum Annelida?
Cephalopods can change the color of their skin using these specialized cells.
What is a chromatophore?
This group of arthropods is aquatic, possess two (2) tagmata, and have two (2) pairs of antennae.
What are the crustaceans?
This term describes development in which the anterior end of the alimentary canal forms first.
What is a protostome?
This phylum has a diffuse net net.
What is Cnidaria/Ctenophora?
This phylum is in a monophyletic group with the arthropods due to the synapomorphy of ecdysis/molting.
What is Nematoda?
Which group of mollusks has eight (8) fused shells and feeds with a radula?
What is a Polyplacophoran?
This type of metamorphosis reduces competition for resources and habitat between juvenile and adult stages of species.
What is holometabolous/complete metamorphosis?
This term describes embryonic development in which offspring are nourished internally and born live.
What is viviparous?
These structures form the ECM of sponges.
What is a spicule?
This phylum is acoelomate and triploblastic.
What is Platyhelminthes/flatworms?
How do bivalves feed?
What is suspension or filter feeding?
This group of chelicerates does NOT undergo metamorphosis.
What is Arachnida?
This phylum consists of planktonic coelomates that use a structure called a "corona" for suspension feeding and locomotion.
What is Phylum Rotifera?
This phylum contains the largest animals to use ciliary combs for locomotion.
What are the Ctenophora?
What phylum has a representative that does not have a mouth and absorbs its nutrition through its body wall?
What is Platyhelminthes/flatworms?
Which group of mollusks has only one representative that has an outer, calcified shell and a highly modified foot for grasping?
What is Class Cephalopoda?
This class of arthropods has two (2) pairs of legs per segment and is a detritivore.
What is Class Diplopoda?
In diploblasts, this germ layer forms the digestive and reproductive tissues.
What is endoderm?