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12/12/2011

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Synapomorphies of Unikonta
Definition
single flagelum
Term
Unikonts: Ophistokonts
Definition

S: antierior flagellum

S: plate-like christae in mitochondria

Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta - Fungi
Definition
  • absorptive heterotrophy
  • chitin in their cell walls
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Fungi - Chytrids

Definition
  • More protistan-like thann fufngal
  • The only fungi with flagellated spores
  • Parasitic
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Fungi - Zygomycota
Definition
  • coenocytic (multinucleate cell) hyphae
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Fungi - Glomeromycota
Definition
on the roots of plants and deliver phosphate and other minerals to 90% of known plants
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Fungi - Ascomycota (sac fungi)
Definition
  • S:  named b/c of their reproductive structures called asci  which are cup-shaped
  • Produces multiple spores at tips of condiophores during asexual reproduction
  • Includes parasitic species that cause chestnut blight & Dutch Elm tree disease
  • Include yeasts, truffles, and edibles morales
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Fungi - Basidiomycota
Definition
  • Includes puffballs and mushroom
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Fungi - Lichen
Definition
a  symbiotic relationship made up of a fungus and a cyanobacteria (or a "green algae")
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Choanoflagellates
Definition
  • S: collar of microvilli
  • single-celled
  • marine
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia
Definition
  • S: presence of an exctracellular matrix
  • S: heterotrophic
  • S: special cell junction
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia - Sponges

Definition
  • S: filter food through pores in thier outer walls (choanocytes)
  • S: cells divide totipotent 
  • S: spicules (structural elements of support)
  • lack true tissues
  • as adults they become sessile
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans

Definition
  • S: tissue
  • S: nervous system
  • Obvious body symmetry
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans - Radial Symmetry

Definition
  • S: radial symmetry
  • S: only two embryonic layer
Term

 

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans - Radial Symmetry - Ctenopheres

 

Definition
  • S: ctenes (cilia combs)
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans - Radial Symmetry - Cnidarians
Definition
  • S: nematocytes extensions used to capture prety (i.e.  jellyfish stingers)
  • jellyfish, coral, hydras
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans - Bilaterians
Definition
three embryonic layers
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans - Bilaterians - Protosomes

Definition
  • blastophere becomes the mouth
  • ventral nervous system
Term

 

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Lophotrochozoans 

 

Definition
  • S: Having a feeding structure called a lophophore
  • S: Having free living larvae, trochophore
  • S: both bear distinctive rings of cilia
Term

 

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Lophotrochozoans - Bryzoans

 

Definition
  • diverse variety of forms
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Lophotrochozoans - Flat worms
Definition
  • i.e. tapeworms, flukes
  • one hole for gastrovascular cavity
  • Acoelomates - they have a blind sac
  • Eyespots with light-sensitive pigments
  • ability to regenerate
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Lophotrochozoans - Annelida (segmented worms)
Definition
  • i.e. earthworms, leeches
  • Coelomate
  • First group with segmented bodies
  • Setae (bristles)
  • close circulatory system
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Lophotrochozoans - Mollusks
Definition
  • i.e. snails, octupusses, squid, clams, scallops, oysters, chiton
  • muscular foot
  • visceral mass (a region of the body that contains digestory and respiration systems)
  • mantle (secretes shell)
  • many have a radula, "tongue" used to scrape food
  • coelomates
  • Soft bodies
  • often bodies are covered by a hard exoskeleteton (e.g. shells fo clams)
  • diverse environments
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Lophotrochozoans - Mollusca - Gastropoda
Definition
  • largest group of mollusks
  • torision
  • single shell

Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Lophotrochozoans - Mollusca - Bivalva
Definition
  • Coelomates
  • two shells
  • siphon (tube-like structures through which water flows)
  • filter feeders
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Lophotrochozoans - Mollusca - Cephalopods
Definition
  • include the squid and octupus
  • tentacles with suckers
  • siphon (for propulsion through water)
  • vertebrate-like eyes
  • pen (vestigal shell for structural support)
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans
Definition
  • Comprises the largest group of animals
  • Includes both the arthropods (insect, spiders, and crustaceans) and the nematodes
  • S: their name refers to the fact they they regularly shed their cuticle through a process called ecdysis
  • S: cuticle/exoskeleton
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans - Nematodes

Definition
  • Pseudocoelomates
  • Complete digestive trct with mouth & anus
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans - Arthropoda

Definition
  • include insects, spiders, lobsters, crabs
  • Jointed appendages
  • body separated into 3 main parts
Term

 

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans - Arthropoda - Crustacea

 

Definition
  • Includes crabs, lobsers, and barnacles
  • Their exoskeleton is made of protein chitin & calcium
  • Head has five pairs of appendages
  • Respire via gills
Term

 

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans - Arthropoda - Chelicerates (Spiders)

 

Definition
  • Include spiders, scorpions, spiders, mites & ticks, horsseshoe crab
  • Body divided into two main divisions
  • six pairs of appendages
  • coelomates
Term

 

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans - Arthropoda - Myriapoda

 

Definition
  • Includes centipedes and millipedes
  • Four legs per body segment
  • Slow-moving
  • Many produce toxins as a defense mechanism
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans: Arthropoda - Insecta
Definition
  • Coelomates
  • 3-Part body
  • 3 sets of legs
  • most, but not all, have wints
  • metamorphosis, incomplete or complete
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans: Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera (beetles)

Definition
  • Two pairs of wints, one hard pair covering a more delicate pair underneate
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans: Arthropoda - Insecta - Hymenoptera
Definition
  • Includes ants, bees, and wasps
  • Chewing mouthpart
  • Compound eyes, well developed
  • Membranous wings
  • Hind wings smaller than front wings (link by small hooks called hamuli)
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans: Arthropoda - Insecta - Orthoptera
Definition
  • Includes grasshoppers and crickets
  • Incomplete metamorphosis
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans: Arthropoda - Insecta - Lepidoptera
Definition
  • Includes moths & butterflies
  • Wings are covered with microscopic scales
  • Most have completely lost mandibles and instead developed a long probosis for drinking nectar from flowers
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Protosomes: Ecdysozoans: Arthropoda: Insecta - Diptera
Definition
  • Includes flies, mosquious, and gnats
  • Pair of membranous wings
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Deuterostomes
Definition
  • Second whole becomes th emouth
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Ambulacrarians
Definition

ciliated larvae

Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Ambulacrarians - Hemichordata

Definition
  • Wormlike
  • marine
  • 3-part body plan
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Ambulacrarians - Hemichordata - Echinoderma
Definition
  • includes sea stars, sea urchins
  • S: water vascular systems
  • spiny skin
  • radial symmetry as adults
  • tube feet used for respiration and lcomotion
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Deuterostome - Chordates
Definition
  • S: NOtochord
  • S: Hollow dorsal nerve tube
  • S: Pharyngeal slits
  • S: tail
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Deuterostome - Chordates - Urochordata

Definition
  • simple body plan, a sack with two siphons
  • most have a larva that is free-swimming and exhibits all chordate characteristics
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Deuterostome - Chordates - Cephalochordata

Definition
  • small ell-like
Term

 

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Deuterostome: Chordates - Vertebrates

 

Definition
  • vertebral column, nerve
  • Neural crest cells
  • relatively well-developed brain
  • paired complex eyes
  • muscularized mouth and pharynx
  • well-developed circultory sstem with a heart
Term

Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Deuterostome: Chordates - Vertebrates - Jawless fish

Definition
  • Lampreys
  • ectoparasite
  • lack paired fins
Term
Unikonts: Opisthokonta: Animalia: Eumetazoans: Bilaterians: Deuterostome: Chordates - Vertebrates - Gnathostems (Jawed)
Definition

- hinged jaws

- paired fins

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