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Water enters this opening
Brings fresh oxygen and suspended food particles |
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Water exits this opening
Carries waste and CO2 out of animal |
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Receives incoming water from mouth
Entraps food in film of mucus
Responsible for gas exchange |
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Secretes mucus, forms sticky coating on pharynx
Traps food particles |
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| Allows for outflow of water from pharynx into atrium |
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| Body chamber that receives water from the pharynx through the pharyngeal slits |
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| Holdfasts that allow animal to anchor itself firmly to substrate |
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| Pumps blood through vessels and sinuses of open circulatory system |
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| Used by larvae to attach to substrate prior to metamorphosis |
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| Provides skeletal support for anchoring of swimming muscles in the larval form |
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| Handles nervous coordination in the larval form |
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Chordata
Urochrodata
Ascidiacea |
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| Tough, fibrous coating that houses the body |
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| Deposit nitrogenous wastes as solid crystals of guanine or uric acid in the tunic |
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| Larvae to Adult Nerve Cord |
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| Degenerates to single nerve ganglion between the incurrent and excurrent siphons |
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Hermaphroditic
Can self-fertilize |
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