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Aquatic Invertebrate Zoology
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
09/29/2013

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Cephalization
Definition
Having a "Head". Concentration of sensory organs/ganglia in the front of the body.
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Structural endoskeleton
Definition
Bones with muscles attached and used as levers tho keep body up despite gravity.
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Structural exoskeleton
Definition
Allows organism to molt
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Hydrostatic skeleton
Definition
combination of circular and longitudinal muscles around a fluid filled chamber.
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Diffusion
Definition
Particles moving down a concentration gradient.
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Entropy
Definition
Equilibrium, lack of particle concentration.
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Surface area-to-volume constrain
Definition
as SA increases, SA to Vol ratio decreases. Vol increases faster than SA when object gets larger. This is why cells are so small and numerous, diffusion can happen much easier.
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Spheres and diffusion
Definition
Spheres are a bad shape for an organism, because their SA to Vol ratio is very low, making diffusion difficult
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Osmosis
Definition
Diffusion of water. (Leech & salt ex)
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Kidney's function
Definition
Create as little urine as possible in order to utilize as much water in the body as possible
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Gonochoristic
Definition
two separate sexes with male fertilizing female egg
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Hermaphroditic
Definition
Fertilize their own eggs
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Direct and indirect development
Definition
Direct: Born as a miniature adult
Indirect: Born into a larval stage that will become adult.
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Asexual Reproduction types
Definition
Budding- pieces of organism breaking off and becoming another individual (Colonal-budding off but staying attached)
Cloning- Adults creating clone of themselves.
Parthenogenesis- females making more females
Androgenesis- males making more males
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Sedentary
Definition
sit in one place (sessile- attached)
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Planktonic
Definition
Floating around
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pelagic
Definition
live in the water column
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benthic
Definition
live in or on the bottom of the water source
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saprobes
Definition
eat dead organic matter
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Blastula
Definition
Hollow ball of cells
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Gastrulation
Definition
Formation of proto-gut and germ layers. The process that describes an animal
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Diploblastic
Definition
No mesoderm, lacking muscles. Only 2 embryonic germ layers
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Triploblastic
Definition
Having 3 embryonic cell layers (endo, meso, ecto)
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Acoelomate
Definition
Lacking a body cavity
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Coelomate
Definition
Possessing a body cavity lined by mesoderm
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Schizocoely
Definition
when the mesoderm divides
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Pseudocoelomate
Definition
A body cavity remnant of blastocoel
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Enterocoely
Definition
Mesoderm derived from endoderm
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Radial Cleavage
Definition
Early cell divisions are symmetric (90 degree angles)
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Spiral Cleavage
Definition
Cleavage planes are never 90 degrees, but about 45 degrees causing the formation of unequally sized cells, forming a spiral
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Taxa
Definition
Named groups of organisms that are more closely related to each other than those of other groups
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Clades
Definition
Descendents of common ancestry
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Homologies
Definition
Traits inherited through common evolutionary descent
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Ostia
Definition
Pores in sponges lined by porocytes (porifera)
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Totipotent
Definition
A cell that retains it's ability to turn into any other cell types. (porifera)
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Gemules
Definition
An accumulation of nutrients, covered in a protective capsule of spicules, that is formed by freshwater sponges during the winter. Genetic clones. (porifera)
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Obelia
Definition
Member of cnidaria, has both a sessile (asexual) polyp and a swimming (sexual) medusa. Polyp makes medusa, medusa makes polyp. (Cnidaria)
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Gastrozooids
Definition
Mouth and digestion of cnidarians, has stinging cnidoblasts to capture prey, like a harpoon. (cnidaria)
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2 way mouth
Definition
digestive tract of cnidarians. Food in one hole, and out the same hole. They can not eat more food without first expelling the previously eaten food.
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Gonozooids
Definition
Produce medusae in cnidarians. separate sexes. Gametes are derived from epidermal tissue.
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5 classes of Cnidarians
Definition
Hydrozoa- hydra, obelia
Anthozoa- corals, sea anenomes
Scyphozoa- jelly fish
Cubozoa- box jellies
Myxozoa- minute parasitic forms
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4 Classes of Porifera
Definition
Calcarea
Hexactinellida
Demosponguae
Sclerospongiae
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4 classes of Platyhelminthes
Definition
Turbellaria- flatworms (freeliving)
Monogenea- flukes (parasitic)
Trematoda- flukes (parasitic)
Cestoda- Tapeworms (parasitic)
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Parenchyma
Definition
Living cells that fill spaces within a flat worm (platyhelminthes)
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Ocelli
Definition
A cup of cells that can detect light and where it is coming from. "eyes"
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Protonephridiae
Definition
For osmoregulation, constantly producing very dilute urine
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Flame Cells
Definition
Water enters in and filters out the molecule with selective reabsoption through movement created by flagelli beating. (platyhelminthes)
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Hypodermic Impregnation
Definition
Injection of sperm into fluid within body wall (platyhelmithes)
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Neoblasts
Definition
Stem cells that are retained by platyhelminthes during asexual reproduction.
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Scolex
Definition
Attachment structure with hooks on the head of tapeworms (platyhelminthes)
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Proglottids
Definition
Segmented sections of a tapeworm, each one it's own parasite with its own gonads.
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Regional Specialization
Definition
Digestive enzymes secreted in sequence and with a special part of gut for absorption of nutrients, making it very efficient (Nemertea)
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Circum enteric connectives
Definition
nerves running over and under the gut (Nemertea)
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Proboscis
Definition
A flexible organ of a nemertea,that shoots out of the body and is used in capturing and subduing prey and feeling around
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Rhynchocoel
Definition
The fluid filled body cavity which shoots proboscis out when circular muscles around it are contracted (Nemertea)
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2 classes of Nemertea
Definition
Anopla- unarmed proboscis/not part of gut
Enopla- armed proboscis/ejected from the mouth.
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Eutely
Definition
Fixed cell number, cells don't continue to divide, they just grow bigger. (Nemertea)
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Furka
Definition
forked tail
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Corona
Definition
anterior ciliated structure for locomotion and feeding (rotifera)
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Toes
Definition
posterior adhesive glands (rotifera)
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3 classes of Rotifera
Definition
monogogonta
bdelloidea
seisonidea
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Euelic
Definition
once reaching a certain size, their cells stop dividing
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Amictic females
Definition
produce diploid females that don't need fertilzation. (rotifera)
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Mictic females
Definition
Create haploid eggs, because there's no males, haploid eggs can't get fertilized and are then females. (rotifera)
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Heterogomy
Definition
When things dry up, males fertilize haploid eggs called diapause eggs which do nothing but rest until water comes, and they become amictic females. (rotifera)
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Cryptobiosis
Definition
adults are capable of living in a cyst for decades. (rotifera)
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