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11/19/2012

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Term
The Big Bang
Definition
10-20 billilon years ago
Matter in a ball exploded and started expanding
Gradually cooled in to celestial bodies
Term
What do probes on Mars look for
Definition
Water
Signs of life as we know it
Term
Formation of the Earth
Definition
4.55 billion years ago
No life for the first billion years it was too hot
Poisonous atmosphere
Hot water
Term
How did life originate
Definition
Lightning strikes
High temps cooled, H2O vapor into oceans 4.1 bya
Dynamic environment
Atmosphere
Reducing atmosphere, favored the building of larger molecules.
Term
How did lightning strikes influence the origin of life
Definition
Energy input into H2O bodies
provide energy to form new compounds
Term
What was the dynamic environment of the origin of life
Definition
Strong US radiation, volcanos, earthquakes, lightning storms
Term
What was the atmosphere made up of in the origin of life
Definition
water vapor, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, only a small amount of oxygen.
Term
How has life on earth changed since it's origin
Definition
Photosynthetic prokaryotes have a huge impact on forward movement
Photosynthesis gives Oxygen
Creation of the ozone and protection from UV rays.
At first oxygen was poisonous, had to come up with a biochemical change
Term
What is the current atmosphere composed of
Definition
78% nitrogen
21% oxygen
.03% Carbon Dioxide
Term
earliest fossils
Definition
blue-green algae
Term
Cells
Definition
simplest until of life
chemical factory
Term
DNA
Definition
manages cells
issues orders through RNA
Term
RNA
Definition
operates the rest of the metabolic machinery by making proteins
codes, codes are interpreted by mRNA and tRNA
major focus of early life
Term
Viruses
Definition
Aren't cells, they evolved from cells and depend on cells for life but aren't cells
Term
Why is DNA a good choice to hold info storage?
Definition
DNA stores, RNA interprets, Protein does work
Term
Abiogenesis
Definition
evolution before life
groups of interaction
chemicals produce products that get made into cells
Term
Creator of the Abiogenesis model
Definition
By Stanley Miller in the 1950s
Term
The abiogenesis model
Definition
suggested life originated in the early atmosphere
they came out with nucleotides, the building blocks of amino acids and amino acids, the building blocks of lipids, ATP, sugars and proteins.
Term
The abiogenesis model can be found in nature, where?
Definition
Hyrdo-thermal vents
Term
Molecular aggregates
Definition
must confine inside something that resembles a cell
when mixed together, large protein and lipid molecules spontaneously form droplets called microspheres
Term
microspheres
Definition
regulate things going in and out
can swell and shrink through osmosis
can divide when reaching a certain size
can store energy in voltage differentials across membrane (how cells communicate)
Term
The origin of self replication
Definition
the gene
RNA can faithfully replicate
not as well protected, subject to mutations
U replaces T
RNA can act as own enzyme, catalyzing replication other RNA
protein makes enzymes
RNA can self assemble
Term
What was the first genetic material
Definition
RNA
Term
Why was it though that RNA was the first genetic material
Definition
ability to self replicate
once you get replications you get mistakes
mistakes = mutations = diversity
Natural selection
Term
What evolved from RNA
Definition
DNA
double stand (more stable)
mutations less common
Term
What do all bacterial currently use (R or DNA)
Definition
DNA
Term
viruses use RNA or DNA?
Definition
RNA outside of a call but DNA on the inside
Term
through 100's of millions of years of evolution
Definition
abiotic synthesis and molecular cooperations gave rise to the first cells.
the first cells were prokaryotes formed 3.8 bya
dominated Earth for the next 2 billion years.
Term
2 things leading to the origin of eukaryotes
Definition
membrane infolding and endosymbiosis
Term
factors causing the change from bacteria to eukaryote
Definition
main membrane folds into cell, important place for reactions
invaginations
first step to photosynthesis occurs
Term
Invaginations
Definition
some surround genetic material, nucleus mitochondria and chlorplasts
Term
advantages of photosynthesis
Definition
sugar, selectiveness
respiration, drive ATP, provide with mitochondria
Term
Mush of bacterial cells
Definition
a lot of bacteria back and forth and exchange of genetic material
2 bya, oldest eukaryotic fossil
Term
Phylogeny
Definition
evolutionary history of groups of organisms
Term
phylogenetic tree
Definition
relationships among taxa as a product of descent from a common ancestor
efficient mean of summarizing data
Term
monophyletic
Definition
ancestral species and all of its descendants
Term
paraphyletic
Definition
ancestor and some of the descendants
Term
polyphyletic
Definition
multiple ancestors
Term
Phenetics
Definition
summarizes overall similarity among taxa
Term
cladistics
Definition
based on synapomorphies among taxa
Term
synapomorphy
Definition
shared derived characteristics
Term
apomorphy
Definition
derived characted
Term
plesisiomorphy
Definition
ancestral characteristic
Term
rule of parsimony
Definition
When reconstructing the past or solving a mystery, the simplest series of steps that lead to an outcome is the most likely.
Term
Molecular Phylogeny
Definition
Focuses on molecular level
Term
How does a molecular phylogeny work?
Definition
Hybridization
Compare amino acid sequences of similar proteins produced
Compare DNA sequences (genes) directly in terms of nucleotides
Compare MtDNA sequences
Compare 16s rRNA sequences
Term
What is Hybridization
Definition
denature DNA of 2 species and see how well they combine together (hybridize) when mixed
Term
Evolution of Photosynthesis
Definition
Sulfur users (light and):
2H2S + CO2 > CH2O +2S +H2O
Water users (light and):
CO2 +H2O > CH2O + O2
Term
Why were Water users a major leap
Definition
4 x more energy
Earth becomes oxidizing
O2 toxic to acetate and sulfur users
Ozone UV shield; terrestrial environment useable!!
Term
Cambrian Explosion
Definition
570-500 mya
3 extraordinary fossil assemblages
Doushantuo (570 mya) – China
Ediacaran (565-544 mya) – Australia
Burgess Shale (525-515 mya) – Canada
all modern phyla present by end
1st evidence of a food chain
Predation
Term
Cambrian diversification
Definition
morphological
ecological (locomotion, feeding)
Term
Why the Cambrian diversification
Definition
Higher oxygen levels
larger size
higher metabolic rates
Mass extinction-end of Proterozoic
opportunities!!
Term
Extinction
Definition
the ultimate fate of all species
Term
How do mass extinctions occur
Definition
Different causes for each (most unknown)
Global events likely
Do know about the K-T extinction
Asteroid impact (10km)
History is conditional - often not possible to be adapted for extreme events
Term
Dinosaur extinction
Definition
Evidence for asteroid impact:
iridium concentrations /clay layer
shocked quartz
- microtektites
Yucatan Peninsula crater
Term
How did the asteroid cause extention
Definition
vaporization of SO2
dust & wildfire smoke
global cooling
earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis
Term
prokaryotes
Definition
the 3 major lineages of life, Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya
usually small
Term
Where do almost all bacteria fall
Definition
prokaryotes
Term
eukarya
Definition
organelles in their cells
Term
order of organization
Definition
DKPCOFGS, Drunk kings play chess on funny green squares
Term
The Ecological/Economic Importance of Bacteria...
Definition
Symbiotic bacteria assist in digestion
Many bacteria are decomposers
Nitrogen fixing
aquatic ecosystems
blue green algae - anoxic environment (fish kills)
food (cheese, yogurt)
E. coli, a model organism
antibiotics
biotechnology
bioremediation (oil spill, can consume and break down mol)
Pathogenic
Term
Until late 1800’s we didn’t know what caused disease
Definition
Pasteur
Koch
Koch’s Postulates
Found in all sick individuals
Isolate and grow in pure culture
Induces the disease in expt. animals
Isolate again from expt. animals
Term
How do pathogens make us sick
Definition
Exotoxins proteins released by some bacterial cells, are poisonous.
Endotoxins are components of bacterial outer membranes. They cause fever, aches, and possibly shock.
Term
example of bioterrorism
Definition
spore making
Term
Common shapes of bacteria
Definition

Cocci[image]Bacilli

Spirochete

Term
Shape of bacterial chromosome
Definition
circular
Term
how is DNA packaged in bacteria
Definition
histone proteins
Term
Some characterisitcs of bacteria
Definition
organelles, flagella, uni/multicelluar
Term
Bacterial adaptations
Definition
locomotion by other organisms
Prokaryotic flagella
recombination through conjugation
reproduce by binary fission and conjugation (tubes connect and transfer DNA)
recombination through transduction
recombination through transformation
metabolic diversity
capsules and slime
endospores
Term
Experiments of recombination through transduction
Definition

[image]

s= succeptible

r= resistant

picking up scraps of r to make s, mouse dies

Term
metabolic diversity
Definition
Production of ATP:
1. Phototrophs
2. Organotrophs
3. Lithotrophs

Huge diversity in electron donors and acceptors during cellular respiration
Term
Phototrophs
Definition
Light, ATP through photophosphorylation
Term
Organotrophs
Definition
Oxidize organic molecules, ATP through cellular respiration, or fermentation
Term
Lithotrophs
Definition
Oxidize inorganic molecules (ammonia or methane)
ATP through cellular respiration
Term
capsules and slime
Definition
cell membrane like normal
outside that, cell wall (peptidoglycan), Polysaccharides and Proteins
in most bacteria
stain gram positive
Term
Gram positive and negative
Definition
positive will stain, ability to be killed by antibiotics
negative has an outer-membrane, will not stain, resistant
Term
endospores
Definition
produced by baccillis
small cell with tough coating
can sit for years
bioweaponry
resistant to UV, Gamma, desiccation, lysozyme, high temps and disinfectants
Term
Spirocytes
Definition
chemotrophic, corkscrew locomotion, cause Lyme and disease and syphillis
Term
Chlamudiae
Definition
parasitic, gram neg, blindness and STD
Term
Gram Positive bacterias
Definition
Clostridium, Strep, Bacilius
Term
Cyanobacteria
Definition
photosynthetic, aquatic, symbiotic with fugi, fix nitrogen, stomatolites, red tides
Term
proteobacteria
Definition
photo and chemosynthetic, sulfur bacteria, nitrogen fixing bacteria, enteric bacteria, salmonella
Term
Archaea going to extremes
Definition
maybe first life on earth
Halophiles
Thermophiles
Pyrococcus
methanogens
Term
Synapomorophies of Eukarya
Definition
nuclear envelope
complex cytoskeleton
mitosis
Term
What is a protist
Definition
all are eukaryotic
small or large
uni and multicellular
cell or no cell wall
mobile or sessile
many lifestyles
many lifecycles
at least most aquatic
Term
why study protists
Definition
Human health and welfare
Ecology
Term
Ecology aspect of studying protists
Definition
• Primary producers
• Carbon sink (shells)
Term
• Carbon sink (shells)
Definition
• Shells that sink to the bottom of oceans absorb carbon, taking carbon out of the system
• Helping us out with taking out excess carbon
Term
• Primary producers
Definition
• (Almost) every photosynthetic organism in the aquatic system is a protist
• Providing the sugar that everyone else needs
Term
o Human health and welfare of studying protists
Definition
• Disease
• Food safety
Term
• Major evolutionary changes in protists
Definition
o Compartmentalization
o Endosymbiosis
o Multicellularity
o Sexual reproduction
Term
• Compartmentalization
Definition
Originators of all our organelles
Compartmentalizing certain functions
Bigger cells
• Ecological interactions change
• Easier to eat bacteria
Change of surface area to volume ratio
Term
• Endosymbiosis
Definition
o Idea that a protist cell took in a bacteria
o This bacteria was left in the cell, became a mutualism
o Protista provides food, bacteria provides energy
o Became so well intertwined that the bacteria cell could no long live outside of the eukaryotic cell
Mitochondria
Chloroplasts
Term
o Evidence for endosymbiosis
Definition
• Size of mitochondria and chloroplasts are the same size as bacteria
• Replication of mitochondria and chloroplasts occurs by fission
• Bacteria-like ribosomes
• Some chloroplasts have peptidoglycan
• Double membranes
• Circular chromosomes
• Lots of molecular (DNA) support
Term
o Secondary endosymbiosis
Definition
• A second endosymbiotic event
• Results in the double membrane
Term
• Multicellularity
Definition
Colonial then multicellular
• Cellular dependence
• Cellular specialization
This specialization allows for a larger body
• Artificially increased the membrane body for digestion and food intake
Term
• Sexual reproduction
Definition
o Meiosis
o Genetically variable offspring
o Complex lifestyles because of sexual reproduction
• Process where you can combine the genetic material from two different organisms into one organism
• Gives us diversity and variation
• Very important
• Adaptation requires this variation
Term
o Meiosis
Definition
Haploid gametes
Reduction division
• Key to making meiosis happen
• During meiosis one
• Each cell gets one of each pair or chromosome
o Cut number of chromosomes in half
o We had to have a physical mechanism that cuts the normal # of chrom. In half
o Have to have even number of chromosomes
Allows, ultimately, for the haploid cells to join with other haploid cells to create diploid cells
Term
o Genetically variable offspring
Definition
• Ability to have variation because of sexual reproduction
Term
• Variation in protist lifestyles
Definition
o Support and protection
o Feeding
o Movement
o Lifecycles
Term
o Support and protection protists
Definition
• Complex cytoskeletons and organelles
• Internal skeletons
• External shells
• Multiple origins of these structures
Term
o Feeding protists
Definition
Ingestion
• Engulfing or filer feeding
Absorption
• Decomposers or parasites
Photosynthesis
Term
o Movement protists
Definition
• Cell crawling
• Cilia and Flagella
Term
o Lifecycles
Definition
• Reproduction, alternation of generations
Term
• Lineages
Definition
o Amoebozoa
o Excavata
o Plantae
o Rhizaria
Term
o Amoebozoa
Definition
• Lobose amoebae
• Cellular slime molds
• Plasmodial slime molds
Term
• Lobose amoebae
Definition
Morphology
o Amorphous cells with extensions
Feeding and movement
o Engulf food particles
o Cell crawling
Reproduction
o Asexual and sexual
Human impact
o Several important parasites
Term
• Plasmodial slime molds
Definition
• Multinucleate
• Asexual and sexual reproduction
• Decomposers
Term
o Excavata
Definition
• Parabasilids
• Diplomonads
• Euglenids
• Kinetoplastids
Term
• Parabasilids
Definition
• 1 nucleus
• No cell wall
• Ingest bacteria
• All parasitic
• Mostly asexual
Term
• Diplomonads
Definition
• Parasitic
• 2 nuclei
• No cell wall or mitochondria
• Ingest bacteria
• Swim with flagella
• Only asexual
Term
• Euglenids
Definition
• Some have chloroplasts
• Most do not have cell walls
• Unicellular
• Eat bacteria
• Some do photosynthesis
• Only asexual reproduction
• Ecological importance- part of the plankton
Term
• Kinetoplastids
Definition
Non photosynthetic
Large parasites
o African Sleeping Sickness
o Makes you sleepy
Term
o Plantae
Definition
• Red algae
Term
• Red algae
Definition
• Multi-cellular
• Large organisms
• All photosynthetic
• Sexual and asexual
• Alternation of generations
• Contribute to coral reefs
Term
o Rhizaria
Definition
• Foraminifera
Term
• Foraminifera
Definition
• Have different patterns of pores
• Single cells
• Many nuclei
• Crawl/ swim
• Engulf things
• Asexual and sexual
• Fossils form chalk, use to date
Term
Alveolata
Definition
Ciliates
Dinoflaggelates
Apicomplexa
Term
Ciliates
Definition
Morphology
-2 nuclei (macro and micro)
-Some with exoskeleton
-Alveola (sm. sacs) under plasma membrane
-unicellular
Feeding and Movement
-Filter feeders, predators, or parasites
-Swim with cilia
Reproduction
-Asexual and conjugation

Human/Ecological Impact
Abundant in marine plankton; digestive tracts
Term
Dinoflagellates
Definition
Morphology
-Most unicellular
-Some colonial
-Plates of cellulose
-No histones
-Alveola (sm. sacs) under plasma membrane

Feeding and Movement
-Photosynthetic, predatory, or parasitic
-Swim with flagella

Reproduction
-Asexual and sexual

Human/Ecological Impact
-Primary producers; red tides
-Most ocean dwelling
-bioluminescence
Term
Apicomplexa
Definition
Morphology
-Apical complex
-Reduced cholorplasts

Feeding and Movement
-Parasitic
-Some cell crawling

Reproduction
-Asexual and sexual

Human/Ecological Impact
-Malaria (Plasmodium)
-Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma)
Term
Sickle Cell Amemia
Definition
HbA, HbA non
HbA, HbS carrier
HbS, HbS SCA
Term
Stramenopila
Definition
Oomycetes
Diatoms
Phaeophyta
Term
Oomycetes
Definition
Morphology
-Unicellular or filamentous
-Multinucleate cells
-Cell walls of cellulose
-Flagella – during some stage

Feeding and Movement
-Most aquatic detritivores
-Some parasitic
-Do not move

Reproduction
-Asexual and sexual
-Spores w/flagella

Human/Ecological Impact
-Aquatic decomposers
-Irish potato famine
Term
Diatoms
Definition
Morphology
-Unicellular
-Cell walls of silica
-Flagella – during some stage

Feeding and Movement
-Photosynthetic
-Float or glide on bottom

Reproduction
-Asexual and sexual
-Human/Ecological Impact
-Important in plankton
-Diatomaceous earth for filtering, polishing – paint etc.
Term
Phaeophyta
Definition
(Brown algae)
Morphology
-All multicellular
-Cell walls of cellulose
-Flagella – during some stage

Feeding and Movement
-Photosynthetic
-Unique pigments
-Sessile with holdfast

Reproduction
-Asexual and sexual
-Reproductive cells w/flagella
-Alternation of generations

Human/Ecological Impact
-Kelp forests
-Sargasso Sea
Term
major ecological roles of plants
Definition
produce oxygen
build soil
hold soil
hold water
moderate local climate
food for other life
Term
Why green algae are the closest to land plants
Definition
morphological similarities
chloroplasts
photosynthetic pigments
accessory pigments
thylakoids
composition of cell walls
synthesis of starch storage product
structure and composition of sperm
structure and composition and peroxisomes (digestion)
Term
Green algae phylum
Definition
Ulvophytes
Term
What is the key to the move to dry land?
Definition
Sporopollenin
waterproof
durable
resistant to UV radiation
Term
Terrestrial challenges of algae
Definition
air has no support to fight gravity
les water, dessication
nutrients and water are in soil, but co2 and sunlight are above ground
UV radiation is a mutagen
Term
non vascular plants
Definition
liverworts, hornworts, and mosses
Term
Lifecycle of nonvascular plants
Definition
alternation of generations
Term
Adaptations for water conservation
Definition
cuticle, stomata
Term
Silurian
Definition
devonian explosion of seedless vascular plants once vascular tissue adaptation arises
By 375 mya:
Vascular tissue
Roots
Leaves
Term
Evolution to upright stature
Definition
Tracheids to help water pass through primary cell wall.
Lignin
Term
Lignin
Definition
thickening of cell walls
Term
Lycophyta
Definition
Innovations:
-Roots with vascular tissue
-Microphylls
Reproduction:
-Bisexual gametophytes
-Rare selfing
Term
Psilophyta
Definition
Reproduction:
-Separate archagonia and antheridia
Habitat:
-Usually epiphytes in tropics
Term
Sphenophyta or Eqisetophyta
Definition
Habitat:
-Wet, low soil O2
Form:
-Hollow stems
-Silica for support
-Some stems repro, some photosynth.
Reproduction:
-Timing of egg/sperm maturation maximizes out-crossing
Term
Pteridophyta
Definition
spores produced on bottom of leaf
photosynthetic
Term
seedless vascular plants...
Definition
have vascular tissue but do not make seeds
diploid/sporangia using meiosis
sporophyte > spore
Term
Seed plants
Definition
gymnosperns and angiosperms
Term
seed
Definition
embryo packed with food supply in a protective coat
Term
advantages to a seed
Definition
greater offspring suvival
seed dormancy
great offspring dispersal
Term
gymnosperm means
Definition
naked seed
Term
pollen is
Definition
no a spore, it is actually a male gamertophyte
Term
Cycadophyta
Definition
cyads
pollen
either male or female plant
males have long cones
Term
Coniferophya
Definition
pre-adapted to cooler dryer climates
Includes:
anything that makes a pine cone (pines, furs, spruce, hemlock)
Heavy cuticle
Keep leaves year round
Bifacial cambium
Term
bifacial cambium
Definition
imporved 2ndary growth
embionic tissue tht produces xylem on inside, pholem on outside every year. all inside part of tree is xylem, pholem is sluffed off.
Term
Conifer Lifecycle
Definition
[image] Seed production is slow often a year or more to occur completely.
Term
Phylum Anthophyta
Definition
angiosperms
flowering plants
Term
why flowers?
Definition
attract pollinators
Term
why pollinators
Definition
more successful plant
Term
angiosperms
Definition
flowering plants
turned cones into flowers
inside flower is both male and female parts
pollination saves energy and all drastic selection
Term
seed plants usefulness
Definition
bioprospecting
ex. willow = asprin
Term
new evolutionary adaptations angiosperms
Definition
more efficient water transport system
development of flower and fruit
faster seed production
Term
new refinements in xylem
Definition
hole all the way through primary cell wall
completely dead
vessels now, not tracheids
Term
Angiosperm Lifecycle
Definition
[image] double fertilization
Term
ecological, historical and commercial importance of fungi
Definition
Many plant diseases are caused by
parasitic fungi
all things we ferment we use fungi
fungi used to make cheeses
used to make drugs
Hallucinogenic mushrooms
Truffles
Term
what is a fungus
Definition
Multicelluar,eukaryotic,absorptive heterotroph
Yeasts evolved from multicellular ancestor.
Use exoenzymes
Avascular
Molds, yeasts, & mushrooms
Term
3 types of Hyphae
Definition
[image]
Term
general characteristic of hyphae
Definition
Hyphae don’t grow in width, just length.
“Move” by growing
Fruiting bodies - overnight!
Term
how many mycelluim is a cluster of muchrooms
Definition
one
Term
lifestyle
Definition
decomposers (saprobes)
parasites (corn Smut, Black Stem Rust (Wheat), Ergots (Rye)
predators
Term
Of the 100,000 or so species of fungi:
Definition
1/3 are mutualistic in mycorrhizae and lichens.
1/3 are decomposers (saprobes).
1/3 are parasites.
Term
Chytrid
Definition
semi aquatic, flagellated spore,
Term
Microsporidians
Definition
should be in fungi
closest protist to ancestor
infect humans and organs
don't make spore structures
Term
Chytridiomycota
Definition
causes deformations in frogs
Some chytrid fungi are symbiotic cellulose digesters
Term
Zygomycota
Definition
forms on food when left out for too long
Term
what type of sexes do fungi have
Definition
+/- not male and female, cannot tell them apart until they come into contact
Term
Specialized Lifestyle: Mycorrhizae
Definition
many plants cannot germinate without fungus
ex. orchids
huge nutrient supply to plants
Term
Basidiomycota
Definition
Club Fungi
dicartoye forms mushroom
in gills dicaryotic combine > meiosis >spores
Term
Ascomycota
Definition
Sac Fungi
smooth structures
Term
Ascocarps
Definition
sac fungi
Term
Specialized Lifestyle: Yeasts
Definition
never do sex, just clone
haploid cell/ spore just clones
Term
Lichens
Definition
composite organisms
grow on rocks and trees
fungi provides semi aquatic environment for algae to thrive and do photosynthesis and fix carbon.
Term
fungal lifecycle
Definition
[image]
Term
What characteristics define an animal?
Definition
Eukaryotic
Multicellular
Ingestive
-Heterotroph
Motile
Lack cell walls
Sexual reproduction
Diploid, except for gametes
Excitable (nervous & muscular) tissue
Similar embryology (blastula & gastrula)
Term
Types of feeder
Definition
Suspensions feeders
deposit feeders
herbivores
predators
parasites
Term
Suspensions feeders
Definition
gills (clam)
legs (krill)
Baleen (whale)
Term
deposit feeders
Definition
earthworms eat their way through soil
insect larvae eat their way through plant tissues or animal carcasses
Term
some animals float for food
Definition
jelly fish, zooplankton
Term
types of fertilization
Definition
internal, external
Term
types of birth
Definition
Live birth
egg bearing
Term
live birth
Definition
viviparity
Term
egg bearing
Definition
oviparity
Term
Metamorphisis
Definition
insects, mollusks, mosquito, salamander, frogs
Term
incomplete vs. complete metamorphosis
Definition
complete goes through larval stage
incomplete goes through nymph stage, then gets wings
Term
example of complete metamorphosis
Definition
fly
Term
example of incomplete metamorphosis
Definition
grasshopper
Term
Morphological diversity of animals
Definition
symmetry
headedness
tissues
body cavity
patterns of development
Term
symmetry
Definition
asymmetric (sponge)
radial (multiple planes)
bilateral (singular plane)
Term
headedness
Definition
bilateral (front/back)
if you can sense your environment first, you'll do better.
brain, eyes, nose etc
directional movement
Term
tissues
Definition
no specilization (sponges)
diploblasts
triploblasts
Term
diploblasts
Definition
have two embryonic tissue layers and radial symmetry
endo and ectoderm
Term
triploblasts
Definition
have three embryonic tissue layers and bilateral symmetry
endo, ecto, and mesoderm
Term
mesoderm formation
Definition
as the endo and ecto form, a part break of forming the mesoderm,
evolution of the muscle
Term
body cavity
Definition
Coelom –
Container for circulation of oxygen and nutrients
Space for organs to move independently of one another
Have to go through a cell to get
Term
patterns of development
Definition
[image]
Term
Choanoflagellates
Definition
sister group to animals

unicellular/colonial protists

suspension feed by flagella

asexual reproduction
Term
Phylum Porifera
Definition
ancient lineage

mostly asymmetrical

specialized cell types

no distinct tissues

asexual or sexual reproduction

internal strucutures
-glass
-proteins (sponges)
Term
Phylum Cnidaria
Definition
diploblast, radial symmetry

one body opening, never form the anus

stinging cells

most go through both stages, medusa and polyp

corals are ecologically the most important
Term
Gastrovascular cavity
Definition
one body opening, never form the anus
Term
chidocytes
Definition
stinging cells
Term
Phylum Ctenophora
Definition
diploblast, radial symmetry

one body opening

move by beating rows of cilia
Term
Phylum Acoelomorpha
Definition
triploblast, bilateral symmetry

0-2 openings to gut

move by cilia on surface
Term
protostomes vs. deutrostomes
Definition
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Term
Phylum Rotifera
Definition
Cilia for feeding
Term
cephalization
Definition
the development of a head
Term
Protostomes
Definition
Lophotrochozoa
ecdysozoa
Term
Lophotrochozoa
Definition
Phylum Rotifera
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Phylum Annelida
Phylum Mollusca
Term
ecdysozoa
Definition
Phylum Nematoda
Phylum Arthropoda
Term
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Definition
No gut
No coelom
"flat worm"
Term
Phylum Annelida
Definition
Segmentation
earth worms
leech
every unit has digestive, excretory, nervous and reproductive parts
Term
Phylum Mollusca
Definition
Muscular foot
Mantle - secretes the shell
CaCO3 shell
visceral mass
clam, snail, octopus
Term
Phylum Nematoda
Definition
Pseudocoelom
No circular muscles
Not segmented
Chitin
major parasitic organisims
hydrostatic skeleton
hook, pig, fish, pin, and heartworm
Term
hydrostatic skeleton
Definition
muscular wall - fluid filled cavity
like hydraulic fluid
they've lost their round muscles so they just flap back and forth
Term
Phylum Arthropoda
Definition
Segmentation
Chitinous exoskeleton
Jointed appendages
first to successfully move onto land
largest group on earth
reverse joint from us
Term
Subphylum Chelicerata
Definition
Arthropoda, spider, horseshoe crab, scorpion, ant
Term
Subphylum Uniramia
Definition
Arthropoda, one antennae
Term
Subphylum Crustacea
Definition
Arthropoda, two antennae, must stay in moise places, have not gotten rid of their gills
crabs
Term
Arthropoda solved what probelms
Definition
same as the plants
chitin as support
internal series of tubes
drying out >waxy cuitcle
exchange gas > series of trachae
reproduction, internal, mating
Term
Deutrostomes
Definition
echinodermata
hemichordata
xenoturbelida
chordata
Term
Phylum Echinodermata
Definition
radial symm
do not much much
sensory all the way around
larvea develop as bilateral, then metamorph
move by water vascular system (podia)
most are predators
starfish
Term
Phylum Chordata
Definition
dorsal hollow nerve cord
notochord
pharyngeal slits
post anal tail
Term
Cephalochordata
Definition
chordata, lancelets
filter feeder
no vertebrae
primal
Term
Urochordata
Definition
chordata, tunicate
move as larvae > metamorhp >adult
early on has all characteristics, then they lose them
Term
vertebrata
Definition
chordata
Term
hagfish and lampreys
Definition
fish shaped
no jaw, rasping teeth
Term
jaw
Definition
remnants of gill arches
Term
class chondrichthyes
Definition
sharks and rays
catrlidge for bones
Term
class actinopterygii
Definition
ray-finned fish
Term
class actinistia
Definition
same strucutes in the fins as the bones in our arms
Term
Dipnoi
Definition
lungfish
turned swim bladder into lung
can go across land for several days to get to new water
Term
class amphibia
Definition
like mosses and ferns, have to have water to lay eggs
apoda (caecilians)
uropoda (salamanders and newts)
anura (frogs and toads)
Term
class mammalia
Definition
Monotremes
Marsupials
Eutherians
Term
Monotremes
Definition
egg laying mammals (platy)
lack placenta
Term
Marsupials
Definition
Pouched
Term
Eutherians
Definition
placental mammals
Term
Reptilia
Definition
evolved after mammalia
Term
aves
Definition
related to reptilia
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