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BIOL 110 Midterm 1
Introductory Zoology
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/10/2012

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Term
Sarcomastigophora
Definition
A Phylum. Kingdom Protista.
Term
Mastigophora
Definition

Subphylum.

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

Kingdom = Protista

 

- flagella

Term
Sarcodina
Definition

Subphylum.

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

Kingdom = Protista

 

- pseudopodia

Term
Apicomplexa
Definition

(Sporozoa)

Phylum.

Kingdom = Protista

Term
Ciliophora
Definition

Phylum

Kingdom = Protista

Term
Zoomastigophora
Definition

Class.

Subphylum = Mastigophora

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

Kingdom = Protista

Term
Protomonadina
Definition

Order

Class = Zoomastigophora

Subphylum = Mastigophora

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

Kingdom = Protista

 

- small, olorless cells with 1 to 4 flagella. Most are parastic

Term
Leishmania
Definition

Genera

Order = Protomonadina

Class = Zoomastigophora

Subphylum = Mastigophora

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

Kingdom = Protista

 

- parasite of surficial connective tissues of vertebrates

- oval with one short internal flagellum

Term
Leptomonas
Definition

Genera

Order = Protomonadina

Class = Zoomastigophora

Subphylum = Mastigophora

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

Kingdom = Protista

 

- parasite of gut of an arthropod

- elongated oval with short flagellum that projects to the outside

Term
Crithidia
Definition

Genus

Order = Protomonadina

Class = Zoomastigophora

Subphylum = Mastigophora

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

Kingdom = Protista

Term
Trypanosoma
Definition

Genera

Order = Protomonadina

Class = Zoomastigophora

Subphylum = Mastigophora

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

Kingdom = Protista

 

- parasite of blood of vertebrates

- elongated spindle shape cell 

- flagellum originates at one end of cell and passes down length of cell body in fold of cell mb

- undulating mb

Term
T. rhodesiense and T. gambiense
Definition

Species

Genra = Trypanosome

Order = Protomonadina

Class = Zoomastigophora

Subphylum = Mastigophora

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

 

- cause sleeping sickness, vector is Glossina (Tsetse fly)

Term
T. cruzi
Definition

Species

Genera = Trpanosoma

Order = Protomonadina

Class = Zoomastigophora

Subphylum = Mastigophora

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

 

- Chaga's disease, vector is reduviid bug

Term
Leishmania spp.
Definition

Species

Genera = Leishmania

Order = Protomonadina

Class = Zoomastigophora

Subphylum = Mastigophora

Phylum = Sarcomastigophora

 

- mainly parasites of the surficial connective tissues causing Kala-azar, etc. Vector is usually a sandfly

 

Term
Apicomplexa
Definition

Phylum

Kingdom = Protista

Term
Sporozoa
Definition

Class

Phylum = Apicomplexa

Kingdom = Protista 

 

- adults have no specialized feeding or locomotory organelles

- some have flagellated gametes or amoeboid immature stages

- ALL are parasitic

- have complex life cycles which always include a sporozoite stage and multiple fission (schizogony)

Term
Gregarinida
Definition

Order

Class = Sporozoa

Phylum = Apicomplexa

Kingdom = Protista

 

- mostly inhabit invertebrates

- extracellular

- gametocytes encyst together yielding many zygotes

- each zygote produces 1 "spore" containing 8 sporozoites

Term
Monocystis
Definition

Genera

Order = Gregarinida

Class = Sporozoa

Phylum = Apicomplexa 

Kingdom = Protista

 

- inhabits earthworm

Term
sporocyst
Definition
In Monocystis life cycle. Eaten by earthworm. Secreted by zygote. 3 divisions (1 meiotic) yields 8 sporozoites in each sporocyst. 
Term
sporozoites
Definition
In Monocystis life cycle. Migrates to seminal vesicles. 8 sporozoites in each sporocyst after 3 divisions (1 meiotic).
Term
trophozoites
Definition
In life cycle of Monocystis. Consumes developing sperm. 
Term
gametocytes
Definition
In life cycle of Monocystis. Trophozoites transform into them after consuming developing sperm of earthworm. Exude material that forms association cyst around them. 
Term
schizogony
Definition
Mitosis in life cycle of Monocystis. Yields isogametes. 
Term
Coccidia
Definition

Order

Class = Sporozoa

Phylum = Apicomplexa

Kingdom = Protista

 

- intracellular

- gametocytes do not encyst together

- each zygote produces many sporozoites

Term
Plasmodium
Definition

Genus

Order = Coccidia

Class = Sporozoa

Phylum = Apicomplexa

Kingdom = Protista

 

- various species cause malaria

Term
P. vivax
Definition

Species

Genera = Plasmodium

Order = Coccidia

Class = Sporozoa

Phylum = Apicomplexa

Kingdom = Protista

 

- inhabits blood and destroys RBC

Term
P. falciparum
Definition

Species

Genera = Plasmodium

Order = Coccidia

Class = Sporozoa

Phylum = Apicomplexa

Kingdom = Protista

 

- symptoms also include edema of brain and lungs, blockage of kidney function

Term
Ciliophora
Definition

(=Ciliata)

Phylum

Kingdom = Protista

 

- nuclear dualism

- cilia (kinetids)

- transverse fission

- conjugation or autogamy

Term
Paramecium
Definition

Genus

Phylum = Ciliata/Ciliophora

Term
Porifera
Definition

(Sponges)

Phylum

Kingdom = Metazoa/Animalia

 

- amoeboid cells for support and protection

- flagellated cels for food acquisition, choanocytes

- spicules: CaCO3, silica, spongin

Term
Cnidaria
Definition

(Coelenterata)

Phylum

Kingdom = Metazoa/Animalia

 

- hydra, jellyfish, corals

- diploblastic: ecto- and endodermis consist of specialized cells = tissues

- blind enteron, or gut cavity

- all have cnidocytes with nematocysts

Term
Hydrozoa
Definition

Class

Phylum = Cnidaria

Kingdom = Metazoa/Animalia

 

- no cells in mesoglea

- no gastrodermal nematocysts

- ectodermal gonads

Term
Scyphozoa
Definition

Class

Phylum = Cnidaria

Kingdom = Metazoa/Animalia

 

- strobilation

- medusa is dominant form

- amoeboid cells in mesoglea

- gastrodermal gonads

Term
Cubozoa
Definition

Class

Phylum = Cnidaria

Kingdom = Metazoa/Animalia

 

- box-like medusa

- strong swimmers with eyes

Term
Anthozoa
Definition

Class

Phylum = Cnidaria

Kingdom = Metazoa/Animalia

 

- NO medusae

- cells in mesoglea

- gastrodermal gonads and nematocysts

- corals

Term
Platyhelmintes
Definition

(flatworms)

Phylum

Kingdom = Metazoa/Animalia

 

- dorso-ventrally compressed

- gut with only one opening

Term
Turbellaria
Definition

Class

Phylum = Platyhelminthes

Kingdom = Metazoa/Animalia

 

- free-living flatworms

- eg. planaria Dugesia

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