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Rotifera, Mollusca
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Undergraduate 1
03/15/2013

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What is Rotifera as a taxonomic category?
Definition
Phylum
Term
What are Rotiferans in terms of body cavity?
Definition
Pseudoceolomates
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What is the habitat of Rotiferans?
Definition
Marine, fresh water, damp soil.
Term
What kind of digestve system do Rotiferans have?
Definition
alimentary canal
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Alimentary canal
Definition
Digestive tract with mouth and anus.
Term
What strange features do rotiferans have at their anterior and posterior end?
Definition
Beating "wheels" of cilia at anterior end to help bring food in and "forked foot" at posterior end.
Term
Parthenogenesis
Definition
Asexual reproduction where embryos develop from unfertilized eggs
Term
How do rotifera reproduce?
Definition
Through Parthenogenesis
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Ectoprocts and Brachiopods are what kind of taxonomic category?
Definition
Phylas
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Lophophores
Definition
Crown of ciliated tentacles around the mouth to trap food.
Term
How do Ectoprocts and Brachiopods get food?
Definition
With their lophophores.
Term
What kind of embryonic development do ectoprocts and brachiopods have?
Definition
Deutrostome
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How are ectoprocts and brachiopods characterized by their body cavity?
Definition
Ceolomates.
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What is the defining physical characteristic of ectoprocts?
Definition
Hard exoskeletons
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What are ectoprocts involved in?
Definition
reef formation
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True or false: brachiopods are involved in reef formation
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False: brachipods are not invovled.
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What kind of habitat do brachiopods have?
Definition
Marine only.
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What is the defining physical characteristic of brachiopods?
Definition
Hinged shells that are dorsal and ventral
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What is the difference between the shells of brachipods and the shells of clams and other molluscs?
Definition
The shells of brachiopods are dorsal and ventral, whereas clams and molluscs have lateral shells
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What is Mollusca as a taxonomic category?
Definition
Phylum
Term
How is Mollusca characterized by their body cavity?
Definition
Coelomates
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What is the embryonic development of Mollusca?
Definition
Protosome
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How may the body of Mollusca be understood in terms of texture?
Definition
Soft body, with hard shell.
Term
What is the shell of mollusca made of?
Definition
Calcium carbonate.
Term
True or false: Mollusca contain both sexual organs.
Definition
False: most have separate sexes.
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What kind of circulatory system does mollusca have?
Definition
Open circulatory system
Term
What blood called when it is in an open circulatory system?
Definition
Hemolymph
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How is hemolymph moved?
Definition
Pumped by the heart, flows around internal organs.
Term
What anatomical features does mollusca have?
Definition
- Radula
- Foot
- Mantle
- Visceral Mass
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Visceral mass
Definition
Most internal organs
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Mantle
Definition
Shell-secreting tissue over visceral mass
Term
Foot
Definition
Muscle for movement
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Radula
Definition
Scraping organ for eating
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What are the classes of mollusca?
Definition
Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda
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Chitons
Definition
Marine animals that are often attached to rocks in tidal waves.
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Polyplacophora Molluscans have many what?
Definition
Plates
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Polyplacophora Molluscans have what habitat.
Definition
Marine habitat in which thy are attached to rocks in tidal zone.
Term
Polyplcacophora are marine animals that are often attached to rocks in tidals waves. This means that they are _________.
Definition
Chitons.
Term
What are examples of Gastropoda Mollusca?
Definition
Snails, slugs and nudibranchs
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What is the habitat of Gastropoda Mollusca?
Definition
Fresh water, salt water, terrestrial.
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True or False: Gastropoda Mollusca has shells.
Definition
True.
Term
Where does Class Gastropoda have their eyes?
Definition
At the tip of their tentacles.
Term
Torsion
Definition
Visceral mass that rotates 180* during development.
Term
Where does the anus end up in torsion?
Definition
Above the head.
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One type of Gastropoda mollusca lacks gills. Which type?
Definition
Terrestrial.
Term
What do terrestrial Gastropoda Mollusca use for gas exchange?
Definition
The lining of the mantle cavity.
Term
What does the lining of the mantle cavity do in Gastropoda Mollusca
Definition
Functions for gas exchange for terrestrial organisms.
Term
What can Gastropoda Mollusca do with their visceral mass?
Definition
Torsion
Term
What are examples of Bivalvia Mollusca?
Definition
Clams, oysters, mussels and scallops
Term
What kind of shells do Bivalvia Mollusca have?
Definition
Hinged.
Term
What kind of feeders are Bivaliva Mollusca?
Definition
Suspension feeders
Term
How do Bivalvia Mollusca feed and exchange gas?
Definition
The gills of the mantle cavity.
Term
How does the gills of the mantle cavity of Bivalvia Mollusca get food?
Definition
The gills are coated in mucus to trap food and cilia sweep it into the mouth.
Term
How do Bivalvia Mollusca move?
Definition
Trick question - they are sedentary.
Term
What kind of feeders are Cephalopoda Mollusca?
Definition
Predators
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What is the speed of Cephalopoda Mollusca?
Definition
Fast
Term
What are examples of Cephalopoda Mollusca?
Definition
Octopuses, squids, chambered nautilis.
Term
What size brains do Cephalopoda Mollusca have?
Definition
Large
Term
What kind of sensory organs do Cephalopoda have?
Definition
well developed.
Term
What kind of shells do octopuses have?
Definition
None.
Term
What kind of shells do squids have?
Definition
Small internal shells.
Term
What kind of shells do chambered nautilus have?
Definition
Spiraled
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Only Cephalopoda Mollusca has a ____________________________.
Definition
Closed circulatory system
Term
Giant squid
Definition
The largest of the invertebrates.
Term
The largest of the invertebrates is...
Definition
The giant squid.
Term
Which class of Mollusca has many plates?
Definition
Polyplacophora
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Which class of Mollusca are chitons?
Definition
Polyplacophora
Term
Which class of Mollusca are marine animals often attached to rocks in tidal zones?
Definition
Polyplacophora
Term
Which class of Mollusca includes the examples snails, slugs and nudibranchs?
Definition
Gastropoda
Term
Which class of Mollusca mostly have shells?
Definition
Gastropoda
Term
Which class of Mollusca lives in freshwater, salt water and terrestrial environments?
Definition
Gastropoda
Term
Which class of Mollusca have eyes at the tips of tentacles?
Definition
Gastropoda
Term
Which class of Mollusca go through torsion?
Definition
Gastropoda
Term
Which class of of Mollusca can rotate the visceral mass?
Definition
Gastropoda?
Term
Which class of Mollusca lacks gills in their terrestrial molluscs?
Definition
Gastropoda
Term
Which class of Mollusca uses the lining of the mantle cavity for gas exchange?
Definition
Gastropoda
Term
Which class of Mollusca includes claims, oysters, mussels and scallops as examples?
Definition
Bivalvia
Term
Which class of Mollusca has hinged shells?
Definition
Bivalvia
Term
Which class of Mollusca are suspension feeders?
Definition
Bivalvia
Term
Which class of Mollusca uses their mantle cavity with gills for feeding gas exchange?
Definition
Bivalvia
Term
Which class of Mollusca mucus coated gills that trap food?
Definition
Bivalvia
Term
Which class of Mollusca uses cilia to sweep food in mouth?
Definition
Bivalvia
Term
Which class of Mollusca are mostly sedentary?
Definition
Bivalvia
Term
Which class of Mollusca tends to be fast?
Definition
Cephalopoda
Term
Which class of Mollusca are predators?
Definition
Cephalopoda
Term
Which class of Mollusca includes Octopuses, squids and chambered nautilis?
Definition
Cephalopoda
Term
Which class has large brains?
Definition
Cephalopoda
Term
Which class has well developed sensory organs?
Definition
Cephalopoda
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Which class is the only mollusks with closed circulatory system.
Definition
Cephalopoda
Term
True or false: Mollusca have closed circulatory systems.
Definition
False: ONLY class Cephalopoda Mollusca have closed circulatory systems.
Term
Which class of mollusca is sedentary?
Definition
Cephalopoda
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Which class contains the largest invertebrate?
Definition
Cephalopoda
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