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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/27/2012

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Animals Are a Sister Group With What?
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Choanoflagellates
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What are Choanoflagellates?lagellates
Definition

The choanoflagellates are a group of free-living unicellular and colonial flagellate eukaryotes considered to be the closest living relatives of the animals. ...

Includes Single-Celled Flagellated Species.

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Animal Evolved How Long Ago?
Definition
About 600 MYA
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The Oldest Fossil Is What and How Old Is It?
Definition
Sponge 570 Million Years Ago!
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What is Animal is first in the fossil record?
Definition
Sponges
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Doushantuo Fossils are about How Old?
Definition
580-570 MYA
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Radiates Appear When?
Definition
By 560 MYA
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PreCambrian is When
Definition
Is before 540 million years ago
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Cambrian is When?
Definition
540-490 MYA
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What happened in the Cambrian period?
Definition
Most bilateral animals evolved and Burgess Shale Fauna
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What are Protostomes?
Definition
A multicellular organism whose mouth develops from a primary embryonic opening, such as an annelid, mollusk, or arthropod
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What is a Deuterostome?
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Animals in which the first opening that appears in the embryo becomes the anus while the mouth appears at the other end of the digestive system
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What are The 5 Evolutionary Important Themes?
Definition

1. Tissues

2. Body Symmetry

3. Cephalization

4. Body Cavity

5. Protostome vs. Deuterostome

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Important themes about tissues
Definition

The Basal Animal Lineage Lack Tissue

Cell Level Organizational only

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Basal Animal Lineages Lack What?
Definition
Symmetry and Tissue
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Choanoflagelletes are what
Definition

A.Sister Group to Animals

B. Sessile (Attached directly by its base without a stalk or peduncle)

C. Collar Celled

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