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Animal Diversity 2: Diversity of Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Annelida, Mollusca, Flashcards

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67042575Define: NematocystsAn adaptation of the Cnidaria for feeding and defense. it functions like miniature harpoons. it can pierce a shell and releases toxins.0
67042576CoralsAre a Cnidaria. live in large colonies, and secrete calcium carbonate. when old polyps die, new ones build on top. Corals get much of their energy from "zooxanthellae" - symbiotic autotrophic protists.1
67042577Reproduction of cnideriaAsexual reproduction: budding off from polyps. Sexual reproduction: fertizlied eggs give rise to mobile, planktonic forms.2
67042578Protostomes consist of what phyla?Lophotrocozoans - [which consist of platyhelminthes, annelida, mollusca]3
67044571Platyhelminthes Body PlanAcoelomate. Lack circulatory, respiratory system, absorb O2 thru body wall. Slow movement.4
67044572Platyhelminthes FeedingSome free-living, many parasites. Some of the parasites with complex life cycles several different forms and more than one host.5
67044573Platyhelminthes reproductionSome asexual, some sexual, most hermaphrodites.6
67044574Annelida examples!Earthworms, polychaete worms, leeches7
67044575Annelida body planTrue Coelom, segmentation of body and coelom. Head with brain, respiration across body wall.8
67044576Annelida FeedingEarthworms - decomposer - eats dead material, Polychate worms are parasites, scavengers, Leeches - blood. (mostly)9
67044577Mollusca Diversity~110,000 species - Octopus, nudbranches - marine sea slugs.10
67044578Key Adaptations of MolluscaThe Mantle and the Radulla11
67044579The MantleSheet of skin. secretes shell forms gills for gas exchange, and in cephalopods forms muscular cavity that forcibly ejects water for locomotion.12
67044580the Radullaa hardened tongue. probably evolved for scraping algae off rocks, and in different species has been modified for punturing, slicing, and manipulating food.13
67044581Feeding niches of MolluscaMostly grazers or predacious14
67044582Cephalopods are masters of disguiseHighly developed nervous system, big brains, Chromatophores- allow sudden color changes for disguise, confusion and courtship. Cuttlefish with electric skin.15
67044583What composes the phyla EcdysozoansNematoda and Arthropoda16
67044584Body plan of nematodaroundworms - very simple, a tube w/in a tube Have a pseudocoelom for body cavity. One way digestive system: mouth and anus17
67044585Feeding of nematodaMany free living decomposers and parasites of almost everything.18

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