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ch 31-35 dsc
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
08/03/2011

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fungi are
Definition
heterotorophs and feed by absorption.
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fungi Vs. Animals
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fungi do not ingest their food like animals.
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Decomposer fungi
Definition
break down and absorb nutrients from non living organic material- ex fallen logs, animal corpses
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parasitic fungi
Definition
absorb nutrients from the cells of living hosts some are pathogenic
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Pathogenic
Definition
including species that can infect humans lungs and are responsible for 80% of plant diseases.
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hyphae
Definition
network of tiny fillaments
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chittin
Definition
unlike plant cell walls that contain cellulose fungal cell walls are strenthened by?
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Mycellium
Definition
totality of hyphae
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hyphae adapted
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for trapping and killing prey-csn constrict around a nematode(roundworm) penetrates its prey with hyphae and degests the preys inner tissue
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Haustoria
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specialized hyphae can extract nutrients from living plant cells. grown by some mutualistic and parasitic fungi.
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Haploid
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nuclei of fungal hyphae and the spores of most fungal species are
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pheromones
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signiling molecules-in sexual reproduction begins when hyphae from two mycelia releases them.
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plasmogamy
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the fusion of the cytoplasm of cells, from two individuals
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heterokaryon "diffrent nuclei"
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parts of the fused mycellium containing genetically diffrent nuclei
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dikaryotic"two nuclei"
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the haploid nuclei pair off two to a cell one from each parent such a mycellium is
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Karyogamy
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after plasmogamy- haploid nuclei contributed by the two parents fuse producing diploid cells.
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Nuclearids
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the ancestor of fungi was an aquatic, single-celled, flagellated protist. consists of amoeba that feed on algae
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majority of fungi lack
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flagella
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chytrids
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earliest diverging lineages of fungi that do have flagella
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opisthokonts
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a name that reffers to the posterior location of the flagellum in most protists.
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Dna sequence
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suggests that fungi are more closely related to several groups of single celled protists than they are to other opisthokops. suggesting tht the ancestor of fungi was unicellular.
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mycorrhizal relationships
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between plants and fungi beneficial relationship from the earliest periods of colonization of land.
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key roles of fungi
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nutrient cycling, ecological interactions, human welfare
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Fungi act as
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decomposers, mutualists, and pathogens
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Decomposer fungi role
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breaks down organic material, including cellulose and ligning of plants. also used for bioremediation.
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fungi role as mutualists
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may form mutualistic relationshinps with plants,algae, cyanobacteria,and animals.
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endophytes are ascomytes
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all plants studied to date appear to harbor symbiotic
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endocytes are ascomytes
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fungi that live inside leaves or other plants parts without causinmg harm
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endophytes benefits
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other grasses by 1. making toxins that deter herbivores
2.increasing host plant tolerance of heat drought, or heavy metals.
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fungal animal symbiosis
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as fungi grow, their hyphae develop specialized swollen tips that are rich in protein and carbohydrates. (ants feed primarily.)
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Lichen
Definition
a sybiotic association between a photosynthetic microorganisim and a fungus in which millions of photosynthetic cells are held in a mass of fungal hyphae.
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Soredia
(asexual reproduction in lichens)
Definition
small clusters of hyphaes with embedded algae.
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impportance of lichen
Definition
after burned forests and cleared rock they break down the surface by physically penetrating and chemically attacking it and they trap winblown soil.
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Cryphonecteria parasitica
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ascomycete fungus that causes chestnut blight
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Fusarium circinatum
Definition
another oscomycete causes pine pinch canker.
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attack
Definition
between 10% and 50% of the worlds fruit harvest is lost by fungal attack each year.
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puccinia graminis
(basidiomycete)
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attacks grain crops causes black stem on wheat.
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Aspergillus
(Ascomycete)
Definition
toxic to humans (mold) contaminates inproperly stored grain and peanuts.
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Claviceps Purpurea
(ascomycete)
Definition
grows on rye plants forming purple structures called ergots.
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Mycosis
Definition
known to parasitize animals- a fungal infection
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ringworm
Definition
skin mycoses, appears as circular red areas on the skin.
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Athletes foot
Definition
caused by mycoses causing intense itching and blisters.
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Systemic mycoses
Definition
caused by inhaled spores spread through the body and cause very serious illnesses.
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Coccidididimycosis
Definition
systemis mycosis produces tuberculosis like symptoms in lungs.
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opportunistic mycoses
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occuring only when a change in the bodys microorganisim, chemical environment, or immune system allows fungi to grow unchecked.
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Candida
Definition
opportunistic mycoses can grow too rapidly and become pathogenic, leading to so called "yeast infections"
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Stachybotrys chartarum
Definition
indoor mold (ascomycete) thrive in damp buildings. many "sick buildings have been abondaned"
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Practical uses of fungi
Definition
1.helps our agriculture to be more productive 2.mushrooms-human consumption
3.distict flavor of some cheeses come from fungi used to ripen them 4.soft drink companies uses a species to produce citric acid for colas.5. antibiotics (pennicillin) 6.
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Saccharomyces
Definition
yeast used to study the molecular genetics of eukaryotes.
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Trangenic
Definition
an organisim that has DNA in its system
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Gastrulation
Definition
layers of embryonic tissues that will develop into adult body parts are produced. resulting stage is called a gastrula.
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Gastrulation
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a process that gives us the shape of the gastrula.
infolding of bastula to produce "germ layers.
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Animals
Definition
injest their food and then use enzymes to digest it within their bodies.
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muscle cells nerve cells
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are in non of the other kingdoms and not seen in other multicellular organisims.
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5 stages of reproduction and development
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zygote,8-cell stage, blastula, cross section of blastula, gastrulation, gastrula pg.655
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cleavage
Definition
a succession of mitotic cell divisions without cell growth between division cycles.
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Blastula
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a multicellular stage, whitch in many animals takes the form of a ball.
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Larva
Definition
a sexually immature form of an animal that is morphologically distict from the adult,usually eats diffrent food and may even have a diffrent habitat than the adult. ex. dragon fly.
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Metamorphosis
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a developmental transformation that turns the animal into a juvinile which resembles an adult but is not yet sexually mature.animal larvae eventually undergo this.
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Eukaryotes
Definition
have genes that regulate the expression of other genes. many of these regulatory genes contain common sets of DNA sequences called hameoboxes.
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Hox genes
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play an important roles in the development of animal embryos controlling the expression of dozens or even hundreds of other genes that influence animal morphology.
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Hox genes regulate
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patterning of the anterior-posterior axis as well as other aspects of development.
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675 and 875 MYA
Definition
common ancestor of living animals may have lived
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scientists
Definition
to under what this common ansentor may have looked like they have sought to identify protist groups that are closely related to animals.
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Neoproterozoic era
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1 billion -542 million years ago
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macroscopic fossils NEO ERA
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accepted fosills of 565 to 550 MYA
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Ediacaranan biota
Definition
members of an early group of multicellular eukaryotes known as
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NEO era
Definition
Sponges and cnidarians
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Paleozoic era (542-251 mya)
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cambrian period, annimal diversification appears to have accelerated.
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Cambrian explosion
Definition
ch 25
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before cambrian explosion(palezoic era)
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only a few animal phyla can be recognized.
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palezoic era
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oldest fossils of about half of all extant animal phyla have been found;arthrapods, chordates,echioderms
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Caused cambrian explosion
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1.new predator prey relationships
2.a rise in atmospheric axygen
3.evolution of hox gene complex
4.multicellularity
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Cambrian explosion (2)
Definition
fishes emerged as the top predators of the marine food web.
Arthrapods began to adapt to terrrestrial habitats
enlarged cavities-@ least 302 million years ago suggesting that the insects and plants were influencing each others evolution by that time.
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Mesonic Era (251-65.5 MYA)(3)
Definition
No fundamentally new animal groups; animal phyla spreads into new eological habitats;first coral reefs form;reptiles turned to the water;descent with modification led to the origin of wings,birds and pterosaurs.
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Cenozoic era 4 (65.5 million years ago to present)
Definition
large,non flying dinosaurs,marine reptiles, large mammalian herbivores and predators as mammals began to exploit the vacated ecological niches.
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body plans
Definition
animals characterized by body plans
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Body plan
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is a set of morphological and developmnental traits, intergrated into a functional whole.
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Symmetry
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sponges lack
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radial symmentry
Definition
can be cut in many ways and achieve mirror images.
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bilateral symmetry
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only one cut to achieve mirror image.
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dorsal
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side
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ventral
Definition
bottom side
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anterior
posterior
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front
back
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cephalization
Definition
have sensory equipment concentrated at their anterior end including a central nervous system (brain) in the head
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sessile
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living attached to a substate'radial animals
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planktonic
Definition
drifting or weakly swimming;jelly fish
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symmetry
Definition
equips them to meet the environment equally well from all sides
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sponges lack
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true tissues
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gastrulation
Definition
embryo becomes layered through the process of
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germ layers
Definition
form the various tissues and organs of the body
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ectoderm
Definition
the germ layer covering the surface of the embryo...animal covering of animal and @ times CNS.
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endoderm
Definition
the inner most germ layer
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archenteron
Definition
developing digestive tract
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diploblastic
Definition
only 2 germ layers-cnidarians; comb jellies, corals
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mesoderm
Definition
3rd germ layer between the ectoderm and the endoderm.
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triploblastic
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having 3 germ layers for bilaterally symmentrical animals true for mesoderm.
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coelom
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tissue derived from mesoderm
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coelom
Definition
tissue derived from mesoderm
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coelomates
Definition
animals that posses a true coelom are known as
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pseudocoelomates
Definition
tripbloblastic animals have a body cavity that is formed from mesoderm and endoderm.
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acoelomates
Definition
lack a body cavity all together
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body cavity functions
Definition
1. help to prevent internal injury
2.acts like a skeleton in whitch muscles can work
3.enables internal organs to grow and move independently of the outer body wall. 4.storage
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spiral cleavage
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a pattern in many animals with protosome in whitch planes of cell division are diagonal to the ventrical axis.
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determinate cleavage
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determines the developmental fate of each embryonic cell very early.
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radial cleavage
Definition
deuterosome development is predominatly characterised by
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radial clevage
Definition
planes are either parallel or perpendicular
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intermediate cleavage
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each cell retains the capacity to develop into a complete embryo
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schizocoely
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coelom forms by splits occuring within mesoderm
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Deuterosomes
Definition
can produce identical twins (inderterate) study pg 661
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points of aggrement 1-3
Definition
1.all animals share a common ancestor
-animal kingdom is monophyletic
-they would converge on a common ancestor.
2.sponges are basal animals (most primitive.
3. Eumetazoa is a clade of animals with true tissues
- all animals except for sponges and a few other groups belong to a clade of eumatazoans (true animals). true tissues.
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points of agreements (4-5)
Definition
most animal phyla belong to clade bilateria
-bilateral symmetry and the presence of three germ layers are shared derived characters that help define the clade bilaria. cambrian explosion
5. chordates and some other phyla belong to the clade deuterostomia.
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metazoa
Definition
ancestral colonial flagellate
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ecdysis
Definition
periodic loss of entire outercovering all @ once.
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lophotrochozoan
Definition
animals with either lophophore or trochophore larva
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clade
Definition
proposed based mainly on molecular data. read pg. 663
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not in deuterostomia
Definition
ecdysozoans and lophotrochozoans
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lophotrochozoa reffers to 2 diff fetures observed in some animals
Definition
belonging to this clade
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lophophore
Definition
cilliated tentacles function in feeding
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invertebrates
Definition
animals that lack a back bone
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porifera
Definition
sponges;are sessile
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cnidaria
Definition
diploblastic;radially symmetrical body
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placozoa
Definition
few thousand cells arranged in a double layered plate;dividing into two individuals or by buddying off many multicellular individuals.
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ctenophora
Definition
diploblastic and radially symmentrical like cnadarians
traits including eight "combs" of cillia that propel the animals through the water.
Term
lophotrochozoans
Definition
plat,ectoprocta,rotifera,brachiopada,numertea,mollusca
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rotifera
Definition
specialized organ systems n digestive tract feed on microorganisims suspended in water.
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plat
Definition
bilateral symmetry-tapeworms process info frm sensory structures-no body cavity.
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ectoprocta
Definition
live as sessile colonies and are covered by a tough exoskeleton
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brachiopoda
Definition
lamp shells easily mistakened for other mollusks have a unique stalk that anchors them to their substarate.
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numertea
Definition
unique proboscis to capture prey like flatworms they lack a true coelom.
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mollusca
Definition
have a soft body that in many species is protected by a hard shell.
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Ecdysozoa
Definition
loricifera,tardigrada,nematoda, arthropoda
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loricifera
lorica
Definition
animals that inhibit the deep sea bottom.
-a pocket formed by six plates surrounding the abdomen
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tardigrada
Definition
shape, stubby appendages,harsh conditions, survive temperaturees
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nematoda
Definition
roundworms parasitize plants and animals tough cuticle that coats the body
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arthropoda
Definition
segmented exoskeleton and joined appendages
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Deuterostomia
Definition
hemichordata,echinodermata,chordata
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hemichordata
Definition
gill slits and a dorsal nerve cord.
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echinodermata
Definition
sand dollars ect.move and feed by using a network of internal canals to pump water to diffrent parts of their body.
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chordata
Definition
4 unique character only in larvae stage.most have backbones include tunicates,lancelates hangfishes
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sunspension feeders
Definition
capture food particles susapended in the water tht pass through thei body sponges
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spongecoel
Definition
central cavity
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chaonocytes
Definition
collar cells- lining interior of the spongeocyle.
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incomplete metamorphosis
Definition
grasshoppers/ diff. body proportions and lack wings
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complete metamorphosis
Definition
larval stage looks completely difrent from adult stage;caterpillar maggot grub, butterfly
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metamorphosis
Definition
reorganizing body parts so larvae differ from adults
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larva vs adult
Definition
morpholoy;habitat;sexuality;food
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