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Zoology 101 - First exam
Evolution - Phylum Mollusca
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
09/23/2011

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Credentials
Definition
When reading a paper, what should you check in order to find out more about the author?
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Provable, Correctable, Observable, Presents new information
Definition
What are the four things a scientific theory must be?
Term
A way of thinking
Definition
If science is not the "truth," then what is it?
Term
Narrow our answer down
Definition
Why is a false hypothesis still valuable?
Term
Hypothesis, Prediction, Test, Accept/Reject
Definition
The Scientific Method consists of four parts:
Term
Schleiden and Schwan
Definition
Name the two people who tested that all life is composed of cells
Term
Metabolism (glycolysis), Evolution, and Reproduction
Definition
All genetic things must be capable of three things:
Term
Homeostasis
Definition
Term: Constant internal environment
Term
Variability
Definition
Term: Raw material for natural selection to act upon; difference in genes
Term
Reproduction
Definition
What provides the basis for evolution?
Term
The ability to live long and produce more offspring
Definition
Survival of the fittest consists of:
Term
DNA
Definition
Term: Blueprint for life
Term
Adenine
Definition
When dealing with DNA, what does "A" stand for?
Term
Thymine
Definition
When dealing with DNA, what does "T" stand for?
Term
Cytosine
Definition
When dealing with DNA, what does "C" stand for?
Term
Guanine
Definition
When dealing with DNA, what does "G" stand for
Term
T
Definition
In DNA, which ATCG pairs with A?
Term
G
Definition
In DNA, which ATCG pairs with C?
Term
Amino acids; nucleotides
Definition
Term: DNA is composed of ____ which is composed of _____
Term
Homologous Structures
Definition
Term: Structure with same origin, different function
Term
Wing, foreleg, flipper, etc.
Definition
Give two examples of homologous structures
Term
Biological Evolution
Definition
How are homologous structures caused?
Term
Analogous Structures
Definition
Term: Structures with same function, different origin
Term
Butterfly wing, Bird wind, etc.
Definition
Give two examples of analogous structures
Term
Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
Definition
Who are the two men that deserve credit for the Theory of Evolution?
Term
U.S.S. Beagle
Definition
What is the name of the boat Darwin voyaged on?
Term
About 22 years
Definition
How long has Darwin's theory of evolution been a theory?
Term
1. Variation (within species, variation exists
2. Prolific Reproduction (more young than can survive)
3. Competition (for resources, predation, disease)
4. Survival of the Fittest (by natural selection; the best adapted carry on species)
5. Natural Selection (differential survival and reproductive success)
Definition
List the 5 parts of Darwin's Theory of Evolution
Term
4 billion years
Definition
How many years ago did life first appear?
Term
2 billion years ago
Definition
The first unicellular life occured how many years ago?
Term
2.5 billion years
Definition
How many years ago did photosynthesis first occur?
Term
1.6 billion years ago
Definition
How long ago did Eukayotes appear on Earth?
Term
1 billion years
Definition
The first multicellular organisms appeared how many years ago?
Term
Sex
Definition
What increased the rate of evolutionary variablity?
Term
True
Definition
The prefix Eu- is latin for...
Term
Before
Definition
The prefix Pro- is latin for...
Term
Nucleus
Definition
The latin word "Karyotes" means...
Term
Atoms - Molecules - Cells - Tissue - Organs - Organ systems - Organism - Population - Community - Ecosystem - Biosphere
Definition
List the levels of organization of particles
Term
Nonliving and living
Definition
What do abiotic and biotic mean?
Term
Your assumptions
Definition
Besides your hypothesis, what else should you always test in an experiment?
Term
1. Your hypothesis is testable
2. There are no other testable hypotheses.
Definition
You should only accept your hypothesis under which two conditions?
Term
1. It may later be tested and proven wrong
2. There may be a better explainable hypothesis
Definition
Name the two reasons a theory is not "true," only plausible
Term
Contingent truth
Definition
Term: Truth based upon man's limited knowledge
Term
They must apply only to a particular field
Definition
Theories must be bounded, which means...
Term
The offspring has an odd number of chromosomes, which makes it sterile
Definition
Why can't two different species produce viable offspring?
Term
Law (ex. Law of Gravity)
Definition
Term: If a theory becomes very certain, it becomes a...
Term
1. Competition
2. Survival of the Fittest
3. Leaves more alleles in gene pool
Definition
Prolific Reproduction causes three things:
Term
Phenotype
Definition
Term: allele expressed as words
Term
Genotype
Definition
Term: Allele expressed as letters/genes
Term
Population
Definition
Term: Individuals in one species in one ecosystem at one point in time
Term
Heritable Genetic Variation
Definition
For population to evolve, it must have ___
Term
Adaptation
Definition
Term: Processes by which adaptive traits are aquired
Term
Alleles
Definition
Term: Forms of gene
Term
Gene Pool
Definition
Term: All alleles in population
Term
Population Genetics
Definition
Term: Genetic variation and their causes in population
Term
Stabalizing Selection
Definition
Term: Selection with less variation and more of "medium" alleles
Term
Directional Selection
Definition
Term: Selection where the mean changes, evolutionary trend gears toward one direction
Term
Disruptive Selection
Definition
Term: Selection with more variation; fewer medium alleles, more extremes
Term
A - dominant
a - recessive
Definition
In alleles Aa, which genotype is dominant, and which is recessive?
Term
100% of individuals in a population
Definition
The number of AA individuals + the number of Aa individuals + the number of aa individuals =
Term
2N, which is diploid
Definition
The total number of alleles in population is...
Term
The Hardy-Weinberg Equation
(p^2) is the number of homozygous dominant [AA] individuals in a population
(2pq) is the number of heterozygous [Aa] individuals in a population
(q^2) is the number of homozygous recessive [aa] individuals in a population
Definition
(p^2)+(2pq)+(q^2)=1
The name of this equation is...
What do each of the parts of this equation mean?
Term
1. Nonrandom mating
2. Large Population
3. No migratin between populations
4. No mutations
Definition
Name four assumptions of the Hardy-Weinberg Equation
Term
By comparing the Hardy-Weinberg Equation with the actual genotypes
Definition
How are evolutionary agents in a population determined?
Term
Evolutionary agents act upon them
Definition
Allele frequencies remain the same over time unless...
Term
Evolutionary Agents
Definition
Term: Mechanisms that change genetic structure of population causes deviation from H-W equation
Term
Mutations
Definition
Term: Changes in DNA (most are nuetral/harmful)
Term
Gene Flow
Definition
Term: Exchange of genes in different populations caused by migration after breeding
Term
Genetic Drift
Definition
Term: Random loss of individuals and alleles -- may produce population bottleneck
Term
1. Mutations
2. Gene Flow
3. Genetic Drift
4. Nonrandom Mating
5. Natural Selection
Definition
Name 5 Evolutionary Agents
Term
Nonrandom Mating
Definition
Term: individuals mate preferentially with only certain genotypes, causing genotype to be overrepresented
Term
Natural Selection
Definition
Term: Different contribution to next generation
Term
Intrasexual: Ability of males to compete against males
Intersexual: ability of males to look more attractive to females
Definition
Sexual Selection has two parts: Intrasexual and Intersexual selection. What is the difference?
Term
Variants
Definition
Term: Spread of data
Term
It must be between male/female
Definition
In order to be sexual selection, NOT natural selection... what condition must apply?
Term
Species
Definition
Term: Groups of actually of potentially interbreeding populations reproductively isolated from other species
Term
Sexual Dimorphism
Definition
Term: Members of the same species that look different
Term
Morphology
Definition
Term: Shape, Size, etc. of organisms
Term
Speciation
Definition
Term: Process of one individual species seperating into two daughter species and evolve as separate lineages
Term
True
Definition
True or False: Speciation may be both rapid (thousands of years) or Gradual (millions of years)
Term
Allopatric Speciation
Definition
Term: Most common form of speciation, where geological feature seperates population
Term
False, he supported creationism
Definition
True or False: Darwin was firmly against creationism
Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Darwin was born in 1809, the same year as who?
Term
Observation
Definition
What was Darwin's hobby?
Term
Origin of Species
Definition
Can you name Darwin's book on evolution?
Term
False, Darwin's wife almost left him after his ideas became public
Definition
True or False: Darwin's family supported his ideas
Term
14 species: 1 is ancestral
of the 13:
6 species feed on seeds
6 feed on insects
1 feeds on buds
Definition
Of Darwin's Finches, how many are there, and what do they eat?
Term
Large and powerful
Definition
Of Darwin's finches, seed eaters' beaks are generally...
Term
Smaller
Definition
Of Darwin's Finches, the Insect Eaters' beaks are generally...
Term
Sympatric Speciation
Definition
Term: Partition of gene pool without physical barriers
Term
Polyploidy (production in indiviual of duplicate sets of chromosomes)
Definition
Most common sympatric speciation
Term
Population Bottleneck
Definition
Term: Environmental upheaval; huge loss in allele diversity
Term
Domain - Kingdom - Phylum - Class - Order - Family - Genus - Species
Definition
List the order of animal taxonomy
Term
Taxon (plural - taxa)
Definition
Term: Word for any of the "kingdom, phylum, etc."
Term
Genus Species
Definition
The binomial systems consists of the taxa...
Term
Karl Linne (Linnaeus)
Definition
Who founded the binomial system, and is known as the Father of Taxonomy?
Term
Assymetry (ex. Sponges)
Definition
Term: No symmetry
Give an example
Term
Bilateral Symmetry
Definition
Term: Only 1 plane of symmetry
Term
Radial Symmetry
Definition
Term: Infinite number of planes of symmetry
Term
Cephalization
Definition
Term: Concentration of nerve cells and sense organs in anterior end
Term
Colonial Organisms
Definition
Term: Groups of cells with little interdependence or coordination (thin strands connect these cells)
Term
Solitary: Paramecium
Colonial: Volvox
Definition
Give an exampe of solitary and colonial organisms
Term
Diploblastic
Definition
Term: Two tissue layers with mesoglea (acelluar)
Term
Cnidaria
Definition
Give an example of a diploblastic organism
Term
Protostome
Definition
Term: "First opening" is mouth
Term
Schizocoelous
Definition
Term: split in mesoderm that occurs in protostome
Term
Deuterostomes
Definition
Vertebrates are protostomes or deuterostomes?
Term
An outpocketing of the gut
Definition
In Deuterostomes, what forms the coelom?
Term
Blastopore
Definition
Term: First opening in coelom
Term
Blastomere
Definition
Term: single cell in blastopore
Term
Enterocoelous
Definition
Term: Gut outpocketing
Term
Pseudocoelomate
Definition
Term: Body cavity without peritoneum
Term
Pseudocoelomate
Definition
The Phylum Nematoda is...
Coelomate
Acoelomate
Pseudocoelomate
Term
Coelomate
Definition
Term: True body cavity with peritoneum
Term
Coelomates
Definition
The phylums mollusca and arthropoda are...?
Coelomate
Acoelomate
Psuedocoelomate
Term
Protostomes and deuterostomes
Definition
The two types of coelomates are...
Term
Kingdom Protista
("Simple animals")
Definition
Kingdom in which organisms maintain homeostasis and all functions in one cell, as well as "cell constancy" (temperature and pH levels)
Term
Ectoplasm and endoplasm
Definition
Cytoplasm consists of...
Term
Plasma membrane
Definition
Term: Cell covering
Term
Contractile Vacuoles
Definition
Term: In Protista, these organelles keep water balance
Term
Food Vacuoles
Definition
Term: In Protista, these store and bread down food into molecules for energy
Term
1. Budding
2. Binary Fission
3. Schizogony (Multiple Fission)
Definition
Name the three types of asexual reproduction
Term
Longitudinal (bilaterally) and Transverse (head/body)
Definition
The two types of binary fission include:
Term
Budding
Definition
Term: Type of asexual reproduction in which a "sidearm" breaks off to form another organism
Term
Schizogony (multiple fission)
Definition
Term: In asexual reproduction, organism splits into three or more offspring, with no parent organism
Term
Asexually, by Schizogony (multiple fission)
Definition
How does the organism Plasmodium reproduce?
Term
Transfer of DNA via protoplasmic bridge (both donate)
Definition
How would you define sexual reproduction in Protista?
Term
1. Parasitism
2. Commensalism
3. Mutualism
Definition
Name three types of symbiosis
Term
Parasitism
Definition
Term: Type of symbiosis that one organism benefits, the host is harmed
Term
Commensalism
Definition
Term: Type of symbiosis where one organism benefits, and the host is neither harmed nor benefits
Term
Mutualism
Definition
Term: Type of symbiosis where both organisms benefit
Term
By type of movement
Definition
In Kingdom Protista, how is taxonomy classified?
Term
Archaea swallowed Eubacteria, bacteria lived and became dependant on Archaea. This formed multicellular organisms
Definition
Define the Endosymbiont Theory
Term
1. Mastigophora
2. Sarcodina
3. Ciliophora
4. Apicomplexa
Definition
Name the four phyla of Kingdom Protista?
Term
Flagella
Definition
How do organisms in the phylum Mastigophora move?
Term
Phytomast and Zoomast
Definition
Name two classes in Phylum Mastigophora?
Term
Phytomast use photosynthesis
Zoomast do not use Photosynthesis
Definition
How are the classes Phytomast and Zoomast split up in the Phylum Mastigophora?
Term
Euglena and Trypanosoma
Definition
Name two examples of Mastigophora
Term
African Sleeping Sickness
Definition
The organism Trypanosoma in Phylum Mastigophora causes which disease?
Term
Psuedopodia ("false feet")
Definition
How do organisms in the Phylum Sarcodina move?
Term
Amoeba, Foraminifera, and Radiolara
Definition
Name three types of organisms in Phylum Sarcodina
Term
Test
Definition
Term: Shell
Term
Trick question! They don't have a test!
Definition
What type of test do Amoeba have?
Term
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
Definition
What type of test do Foraminifera have?
Term
Silicon Dioxide (Silica) - SiO2
Definition
What type of test do Radiolara have?
Term
They do not have a type of locomotion - they flow in the bloodstream
Definition
How do members of Phylum Apicomplexa move?
Term
Plasmodium
Definition
Name an organism in Phylum Apicomplexa
Term
Malaria
Definition
What disease do Plasmodium cause?
Term
Schizogony (Multiple fission)
Definition
How do Plasmodium reproduce?
Term
Cilia
Definition
How do organisms in Phylum Ciliophora move?
Term
They move in a corkscrew motion
Definition
How do flagella move?
Term
Paramecium
Definition
Name an organism in Phylum Ciliophora
Term
Conjugation via a protoplasmic bridge
Definition
How do Paramecium reproduce?
Term
Flagella are long and there are a fewer amount of them (5-8)
Cilia have many and are shorter and move rhythmically
Definition
Describe flagella versus Cilia
Term
Power and Recovery stroke
Definition
Cilia have which two strokes...?
Term
Tissue
Definition
Term: Group of cells that perform the same function
Term
Porifera
Definition
The simplest animals are Phylum...
Term
Phylum Porifera
Definition
Which Phylum have no tissue; are just cell aggregations?
Term
Phylum Porifera
Definition
Which Phylum have these characteristics?
1. Assymetry
2. Choanocytes
3. Spicules
Term
1. Dissolve oxygen (Respiration)
2. Bring in food (Collar is like flypaper)
3. Break down proteins and pass waste
4. Produce and release sperm (Reproduction)
Definition
Choanocytes provide four important needs:
Term
Ostia
Definition
Term: Pores that water enters Sponge through
Term
Osculum
Definition
Term: Large pore that water leaves sponge by
Term
Choanocytes
Definition
Term: "Collar cells" with flagella
Term
Spicules
Definition
Term: Sponge skeleton
Term
CaCo3, SiO2, and Spongin
Definition
Name the three types of spicules
Term
Mostly marine, some freshwater
Definition
What type of water do sponges live in?
Term
Phylum Cnidaria
Definition
Which Phylum has these characteristics?
-Diploblastic
-Radial Symmetry
-Mesoglea
Term
Ectoderm, Mesoglea, Endoderm
Definition
Which forms of tissue do diploblastic organisms have?
Term
It is a jellylike layer with NO CELLS
Definition
Why is mesoglea not considered a tissue layer?
Term
Nope
Definition
Do Jellyfish have cephalization?
Term
Cephalization
Definition
Term: Content of nerve cells and sense organ in head
Term
A nerve net (no brain/ganglia)
Definition
What type of nervous system do Cnidaria have?
Term
All sides are equally responsible for senses
Definition
In animals with no cephalization, like Cnidaria, how are senses organized?
Term
A circle of tentacles
Definition
What do Cnidaria have around their mouth?
Term
Feeding
Definition
Tentacles are used for what?
Term
Medusa and Polyp
Definition
What are the two body forms of Cnidaria?
Term
Polyp: Sessile, asexual
Medusa: Motile, sexual
Definition
Describe locomotion and reproduction in Polyp and Medusa (Cnidaria forms)
Term
Alternation of Generations
Definition
Term: Two body forms present in one lifetime
Term
Epidermis (outer body wall)
Definition
Ectoderm becomes the what?
Term
Gastrodermis that lines the Gastrovascular cavity
Definition
The Endoderm becomes the what?
Term
Incomplete (no anus)
Definition
Cnidaria have what kind of digestive tract?
Term
Cnidocytes
Definition
What kind of defense cells do Cnidaria have?
Term
Cnidocil
Definition
Term: Trigger of the cnidocyte
Term
Nematocyst
Definition
Term: Hollow "harpoon" with toxin located in a cnidocyte
Term
Planula
Definition
Term; Free-swimming "larvalike" stage of Cnidaria
Term
Hydra, Obelia, Physalia
Definition
Name the three genera of Class Hydrazoa
Term
Hydrazoa, Scyphozoa, Anthozoa
Definition
Name the three classes of Phylum Cnidaria?
Term
They have a velum
Definition
What is the defining characteristic of the class Hydrozoa?
Term
Daphnia (a small crustacean)
Definition
What do Hydra eat?
Term
Medusa
Definition
Which stage dominates the lifestyle of Class Scyphozoa?
Term
Ephyra
Definition
Term: Baby medusae
Term
Aurelia
Definition
Name a genus of the Class Scyphozoa
Term
Sea Anemones, Corals, Sea Fans, Sea Pens
Definition
Name organisms of Class Anthozoa
Term
Polyp
Definition
Which stage dominates the life cycle of Class Anthozoa?
Term
They are all marine
Definition
What type of water do organisms of Class Anthozoa live in?
Term
Protandry
Definition
Term: "first male;" in monoecious animals sperm is made first, then eggs so self-fertilization does not occur
Term
CaCO3 (Calcium Carbonate)
Definition
Stony corals have what type of skeleton?
Term
Tropical seas, most diverse aquatic habitat
Definition
What type of environment do corals live in?
Term
Global warming, pollution, and mechanical damage (this causes coral bleaching)
Definition
Why are coral reefs in decline?
Term
Phylum Platyhelmenthes
Definition
Which Phylum has the following characteristics:
1. Triploblastic
2. 1st phylum with mesoderm
3. 1st phylum with organ level system of organization
4. 1st phylum with cephalization
Term
Mid-ventral (on belly)
Definition
Where is the pharynx in Platyhelmenthes?
Term
Incomplete, no anus, gastrovascular cavity
Definition
What type of digestive tract do Phylum Platyhelmenthes organisms have?
Term
Free Living Flatworms, Flukes, Tapeworms
Definition
Name the three classes we studied in Phylum Platyhelmenthes?
Term
Bilateral Symmetry
Definition
What type of symmetry do Phylum Platyhelmenthes have?
Term
Primitive eyespots (tell from light/dark)
Definition
What kind of eyes do Platyhelmenthes have?
Term
Ladder-like NS
Definition
What kind of nervous system to Platyhelmenthes have?
Term
Asexual: Tranverse fission
Definition
What type of reproduction do free living flatworms have?
Term
Sexual: Monoecious individuals
Definition
What type of reproduction do Flukes and Tapeworms use?
Term
Flukes
Definition
Term: Platyhelmenthes class which are parasites in the liver, lungs, intestines, and blood of hosts (usually mammals)
Term
1. Miricidium (ciliated, hangs out in water, enters snail through soft body)
2. Sporocyst (Stage in snail, sac like, no cilia)
3. Redia
4. Cercaria (leaves snail, has tail, encysts on grass, eaten by sheep)
5. Metacercaria (excysts in stomach)
Definition
List the five stages in the lifecycle of Fasciola (sheep liver fluke)
Term
Definitive Host
Definition
Term: Final host of parasite
Term
Intermediate host(s)
Definition
Term: Hosts before final stage in larva's host
Term
1. Miricidium (in water enters snail)
2. Sporocyst
3. Redia
4. Cercaria (leaves snail)
5. Metacercaria (excysts in fish)
-- is eaten by humans
Definition
List the stages of the lifecycle Cholonorchis (Chinese Liver Fluke)
Term
Tapeworms
Definition
Term: Parasites in vertebrate intestines
Term
Scolex
Definition
Term: Head of tapeworm, no mouth, used for attachment, has suckers and hooks that attach to mucosa
Term
Absorbs nutrients through body wall
Definition
How do tapeworms eat with no mouth or digestive tract?
Term
Scolex
Neck
Proglottids (mature proglottids are farthest from neck)
Definition
What parts do a body of a tapeworm have?
Term
Gravids
Definition
Term: Mature, egg-filled proglottids
Term
Female and male gonads
Definition
Each proglottid in a tapeworm has...
Term
Rotifera, Nematoda
Definition
Which two phyla are psuedocoelomates?
Term
Nematoda
Definition
First phylum with anus is...
Term
Eutely
Definition
Term: Constant # of cells per individual
Term
Freshwater
Definition
Most Nematoda and Rotifera live in what kind of environment?
Term
Corona
Definition
Term: Circle of cilia around mouth
Term
Corona
Definition
Rotifera have what around their mouth?
Term
Mastex
Definition
Term: Muscular pharynx
Term
Trophi
Definition
Term: Square, hard jaw-like structures that may be everted and bring food into mouth
Term
Phylum Rotifera
Definition
Which Phylum has the following characteristics:
1. Mastex with Trophi
2. Foot with toes
3. Parthogenisis
Term
Parthenogenesis
Definition
Term: Formation of embryos without sperm
Term
An environmental stimulus (rain) causes diploid amictic female egg to hatch. Only females are present from spring until fall. Another environmental stimulus causes females to undergo meiosis to form haploid egg which becomes the male (mictic). Males are only present in fall. Males and females use sexual reproduction to form diploid amictic eggs
Definition
Describe the lifecycle of Rotifera
Term
Advantage: No energy spent finding mate
Disadvantage: Less hardy/vigorous eggs
Definition
Give an advantage and disadvantage of parthenogenesis
Term
Phylum Nematoda
Definition
Which Phylum consists of roundworms?
Term
Phylum Nematoda
Definition
Which phylum is a tube within a tube?
Term
Phylum Nematoda
Definition
Which Phylum has these characteristics:
1. Cuticle
2. Epidermis
3. Layer of longitudinal muscles only
4. Psuedocoelom
Term
Unique, 1-2 "kidneylike" renette cells and pores
Definition
Phylum Nematoda have what kind of excretory system?
Term
Dioecious, females packed with ovaries, oviducts and two uteri
Sexually dimorphic
Definition
Describe Nematoda reproductive characteristics
Term
Shorter and thinner than females
Curved posterior
Definition
Describe male Nematoda
Term
Ascaris, Enterobius, Necator, Trichinella, Wuchereria
Definition
Name 5 parasitic Nematoda
Term
Ascaris
Definition
Which parasitic Nematoda infects 1 of 7 people's intestines on this planet, is free swimming, and eats the liquefied food of the intestine?
Term
Enterobius
Definition
Which parasitic Nematoda is known as the pinworm, the females live in the perianal folds and cause itching, and the eggs are ingested on fingers?
Term
Necator
Definition
Which parasitic Nematoda is known as the hookworm, attaches to small intestine mucosa with hooks, and drinks blood?
Term
Trichinella
Definition
Which parasitic Nematoda is known as the porkworm, live in the small intestine and skeletal muscle and forms cysts, ingested with undercooked pork, found in med school on cadaver
Term
Wuchereria
Definition
Which parasitic Nematoda is a filarial worm that causes elephantitis?
Term
Phylum Mollusca
Definition
Which phylum has the following characteristics?
1. Coelomates
2. Protostome
3. Bilateral symmetry
4. Unsegmented soft body
Term
Head-foot
Visceral Cavity
Mantle
Definition
Body regions of Phylum Mollusca
Term
1. Protecting visceral mask, secretes shell
2. Excretion
3. Gas exchange
4. Release of gametes/embryos
Definition
What are the mantles functions?
Term
Open Circulatory System (all but class Cephalopoda) with blood vessels and hemocoel (blood cavity)
Definition
What type of circulatory system do Phylum Mollusca have?
Term
Radula which scrapes food (algae) with odontophore (chitinous belt)
Definition
In Phylum Mollusca, what is usually present?
Term
Fast moving animals
Definition
Cephalization is more common in which: slow moving or fast moving animals?
Term
Mollusca, Arthropoda, Annellida
Definition
Name three phyla that are protostomes
Term
Echinodermata and Chordata
Definition
Name two phyla that are deuterostomes
Term
Hydra: Thin amount
Jellyfish: Thick amount
Definition
Hydra and Jellyfish: how much mesoglea do each have?
Term
True
Definition
True or False: Cnidaria have no ganglia
Term
Cnidaria and Platyhelmenthes
Definition
Name two phyla with gastrovascular cavity
Term
Snails, limpets, and slugs
Definition
Class Gastropoda consists of what type of organisms?
Term
Torsion
Definition
Term: 180 degree twisting of visceral mass, mantle and mantle cavity; forms U-shaped digestive tract
Term
Using a flattened foot and mucus (cilia on foot moves using slime layer as traction)
Definition
How does Class Gastropoda move?
Term
A radula (scrape algae off rocks/substrate)
Definition
What do Class Gastropoda use to feed?
Term
Open with a hemocoel
Definition
What type of circulatory system do Class Gastropoda have?
Term
Primitive with 6 ganglia
Definition
Describe Class Gastropoda's nervous system
Term
Simple eyes at base/ends of tentacles
Definition
What type of eyes do Class Gastropoda have?
Term
Selectively reabsorbs certain ions from wastes (opens into mantle cavity through nephridopore)
Definition
Describe the function of the nephridium
Term
Both
Definition
Are Gastropoda monoecious or dioecious?
Term
Class Gastropoda
Definition
Which class of Phylum Mollusca is the largest with 40,000 species?
Term
Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, Polyplacophora
Definition
Name the four classes of Phylum Mollusca
Term
2 Valves (shells)
Definition
What is the distinct way to tell apart a Bivalvia from other classes?
Term
They use byssal threads to embed themselves to the sandy substrate, and high tide brings food for them
Definition
Describe locomotion in Mussels
Term
Adductor Muscles
Definition
What type of muscles pull the valves shut in Bivalves?
Term
The sea star injects enzymes in the clam to break down the adductor muscle
Definition
How would a Sea Star pull apart the strong-shelled clam?
Term
Mantle
Definition
What body structure secretes the shell in Bivalves?
Term
Oyster
Definition
Which organism forms pearls?
Term
Located at one end of the foot, an incurrent siphon takes in water which leaves through an excurrent siphon
Definition
Describe the folded, flat sheetlike gills in Bivalvia and how they work
Term
Trapped food is brought into the mantle cavity
Labial palps sort food near mouth
Rejected food is flushed out mantle cavity
Definition
Describe the food process in Bivalvia
Term
Most are dioecious
External fertilization
Definition
Are Bivalves Monecious or Dioecious?
What type of fertilization do they have?
Term
Clams, Mussels, Oysters, Scallops
Definition
Name several organisms of the Class Bivalvia
Term
Glochidium
Definition
What is the name of the freshwater, parasitic larval clam?
Term
Squid, Octopus, Nautilus, Cuttlefish
Definition
Give examples of several organisms in Class Cephalopoda
Term
Class Cephalopoda
Definition
Which invertebrate class has the most advanced nervous system?
Term
They have a closed circulatory system (while Phylum Mollusca as a whole usually has an open circ. system)
Definition
What is an important characteristic of Class Cephalopoda that is different from the rest of their Phylum?
Term
A water siphon that jet propels them to up to 30 km/hr!
Definition
What do Cephalopoda use to move?
Term
Squids are pelagic (not resting on bottom)
Octopi are benthic (bottom livers) and live in dens
Definition
Describe the major habitat difference between a squid and an octopus
Term
8 arms, 2 tentacles
Definition
How many arms and tentacles do squids have?
Term
8 arms and 0 tentacles
Definition
How many arms and tentacles do an octopus have?
Term
Tentacles grab the food -> Pass to arms -> The beak rips chunks of the food sources off in "bites" if too big to eat
Definition
A squid sees something it would like to eat. Describe the sequence it takes to get into it's mouth
Term
Hooks and Suckers
Definition
What structures do the tentacles of squids have?
Term
Shelled; lives in last chamber
Definition
Describe the body of the Nautilus
Term
90 arms, no tentacles
Definition
How many arms and tentacles do Nautilus have?
Term
Chitons
Definition
What type of organisms does Class Polyplacophora consist of?
Term
8 overlapping plates, large flat foot
Definition
Describe the body of Polyplacophora ("many plated")
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