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03/13/2013

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Animals are eukaryotic or prokaryotic?
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Eukaryotic
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In terms of cell numbers, how may animals be classified?
Definition
Multicellular
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How mat animals be characterized by how they get their carbon?
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Chemoheterotrophs
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What are distinct features of animals compared to other eukaryotes.
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- Most obtain food by ingestion and digest internally
- Animals lack cell walls
- Often have nervous and muscular tissue
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Do animals have cell walls?
Definition
No.
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Qhat kind of tissue do most animals have in comparison to most eukaryotes?
Definition
Nervous and muscular tissue
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How do animals obtain and ingest food?
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They obtain food by ingestion and digest food internally.
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How do most animals reproduce: sexually or asexually?
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Sexually
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True or false: all animals reproduce sexually.
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False: most animals reproduce sexually.
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Is the life cycle of animals characterized by alternation of generations?
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No.
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Why is the life cycle of animals not characterized by alternation of generations?
Definition
There is no multicellular haploid stage
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What are the "ingredients" for fertilization in animals and how do these "ingredients" move?
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Typically flagellated sperm fertilize non-motile egg.
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What results from fertilization for animals?
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A zygote
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Zygote
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2n fertilized egg
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How does development begin in animals?
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mitosis
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Mitosis of the zygote produces what?
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Blastula
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Blastula
Definition
Hollow ball of cells
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What happens to the blastula?
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Infolding of cells
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What is produced from the infolding of cells of the blastula?
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Gastrula
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Gastrula
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A pouch of infolded cells
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What develops from the gastrula?
Definition
Ectoderm, endoderm, and, in some cases, mesoderm tissue
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What form do most animals species have during development?
Definition
Larva
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Larva
Definition
Sexually immature form of animal with a different appearance from the adult.
Term
What do larva undergo?
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Metamorphosis
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Metamorphosis
Definition
developmental change in form toward mature adult.
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What might be different about the larva from the adult form?
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The larva may have a different habitat and food source.
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What are the probably the closest relatives to animals?
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Choanoflagellate
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Choanoflagellate
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Protists that are probably the closest relative to animals
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What suggests that choanoflagellate are the most closely related to animals?
Definition
Genetic and morphological data.
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What kinds of symmetry do animals have?
Definition
Radial and bilateral.
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Radial symmetry
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Body parts radiate from the center
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What does radial symmetry lack?
Definition
Top, bottom, left and right.
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What is an example of a radial animal?
Definition
Sea anemone
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How do radially symmetric animals move?
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Trick question -- most are sedentary or passively drifting.
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How do radial symmetric animals relate to their environment?
Definition
They meet the environment equally on all sides.
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Bilateral symmetry
Definition
Symmetry between left and right sides
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What is an example of an animal with bilateral symmetry?
Definition
A lobster.
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Anterior
Definition
Front
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Posterior
Definition
Back
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Dorsal
Definition
Top
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Ventral
Definition
Bottom
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What are the distinct regions of bilateral symmetry?
Definition
Anterior, Posterior, Dorsal, Ventral.
Term
Back corresponds to...
Definition
Posterior
Term
Front corresponds to...
Definition
Anterior
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Top corresponds to...
Definition
dorsal
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Bottom corresponds to...
Definition
Ventral
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True or false: Most animals with bilateral symmetry are sedentary.
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False: Most bilaterally symmetric animals are active.
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How do bilaterally symmetric animals travel through their environment?
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Headfirst.
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Why do bilaterally symmetric animals travel headfirst through their environment?
Definition
Protective and sensory organs are there.
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Tissue
Definition
Specialized cells with common function
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The phases of animal early development, in order, are:
Definition
Zygote, Blastula, Gastrula and, most of the time, Larva.
Term
Which animal phylum lacks true tissue?
Definition
Phylum Porifera
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Which phyla have true tissues
Definition
All animal phyla except Phylum Porifera
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Phylum Porifera is commonly known as...
Definition
sponges.
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Diploblastic
Definition
Animals that contain two tissue types.
Term
What are examples of diploblastic animals?
Definition
Jellyfish and corals.
Term
Animals with radial symmetry are ______________ and animals with bilateral symmetry are ____________.
Definition
Diploblastic, triploblastc
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What are the two tissue types of diploblastic organisms?
Definition
Ectoderm and Endoderm
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Ectoderm serves as what?
Definition
Outer covering and central nervous system in some phyla.
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Endoderm serves as what?
Definition
Lines the digestive tract
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Triploblastic
Definition
Animals that contain three tissue layers
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What is the third tissue type unique to triploblastic animals?
Definition
Mesoderm
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Mesoderm forms what?
Definition
Muscle and most other internal organs
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Body cavity
Definition
Fluid or air-filled space between the digestive tract and body wall.
Term
What does the body cavity do?
Definition
Cushions internal organs and enables them to grow and move independently.
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What are the categories by which an organism may be classified by tissues?
Definition
Acoelomate, Pseudocoelomate and Coelomate
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What are the conditions for an organism to be classified by tissues?
Definition
it must be an animal with all three tissue layers.
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Acoelomate
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No body cavity
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What is an example of an Acoelomate?
Definition
flatworm
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Pseudocoelomate
Definition
"False" body cavity that is not completely lined with mesoderm tissue.
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What is an example of a pseudocoelomate?
Definition
Roundworm
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Coelomate
Definition
True body cavity that is completely lined with mesoderm tissue
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What is an exmaple of a coelomate?
Definition
segmented worm
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Archenteron
Definition
Cavity of the grastula that becomes the gut.
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The cavity of the grastula that forms the gut is called...
Definition
the archenteron
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What are the developmental modes of animals?
Definition
Protosome and Deuterostome development.
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Blastopore
Definition
Pouch-like indentation in the grastula stage
Term
What happens in protosome development?
Definition
Blastopore becomes the mouth
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The opening in the grastula stage is called...
Definition
the blastopore.
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What happens during deuterostome development?
Definition
The blastopore becomes the anus.
Term
What is animal phylogeny based on?
Definition
Morphology, development, genetics and other molecular data.
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