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Chapter 17
Plants, Fungi, and the Move onto Land
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
11/18/2009

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What are the characteristics of an animal?
Definition
Heterotroph (Ingests food) - Sexual Reproduction - Similiar embryonic development - Muscle and Nervous Tissue
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From what organism did animals evolve?
Definition
Protists
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What occurred during the Cambrian explosion?
Definition

All modern body plans evolved

Predator/prey relationships

Occured 542 MYA

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What is phylogeny?
Definition

The evolutionary history of an organism

Used today to group organisms into 6 kingdoms

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Which organisms have no true tissues?
Definition
Sponges
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Which organisms have bilateral symmetry?
Definition
Flatworms - Roundworms - Annelids - Arthropods - Molluscs - Echinoderms - Chordates
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Which organisms have a body cavity?
Definition
Roundworms - Annelids - Arthropods - Molluscs - Echinoderms - Chorates
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What Phylum is most closely related to the chordate phylum?
Definition
Echinoderms
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What phylum is most closely related to the arthropod?
Definition
Annelids
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To Which phylum do sea stars belong?
Definition
Echinoderms
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To which phylum do earthworms belong?
Definition
Annelids
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To which phylum do crabs belong?
Definition
Arthropods
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To which phylum do fish belong?
Definition
Chordates
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To which phylum do jellyfish belong?
Definition
Cnidarians
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To which phylum do octopi belong to?
Definition
Molluscs
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What is significant about the Austrolopithecus Afarensis?
Definition
Lucy
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What is significant about the Homo habilis era?
Definition
first use of tools
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What is significant about the Homo erectus era?
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Bipedal/First to migrate out of africa
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What was significant about the homo neandurthalensis era?
Definition
Developed in Europe
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What was significant about the home sapien era?
Definition
Its us, developed in Africa
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