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Invertebrate Zoology
Exam 1
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
08/24/2011

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Term

Taxon 

Plural: Taxa

Definition

+ is a group of (one or more) organisms

+Today it is common to define a good taxon as one that reflects evolutionary (phylogenetic) relationships. But this is not mandatory.

Term
Systematics
Definition

+Like a family tree, but with animals

+ it is the study of the diversification of life on the planet Earth, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time

+used to understand the evolutionary history of life on Earth

+ look up diagram!

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Phylogeny

(AKA: phylogenetic tree)

Definition

+Representations of branching taxa tracing back to their first ancestor

+is a diagram that depicts the lines of evolutionary descent of different species, organisms, or genes from a common ancestors

+ useful for organizing knowledge of biological diversity, for structuring classifications, and for providing insight into events that occurred during evolution

 

 

 

 

Term
Monophyletic Linage
Definition

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Paraphyletic
Definition

composed of some but not all members descending from a common ancestor

Term
Polyphyletic
Definition
developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals
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homoplasy
Definition

the occurence of a similar character is derived from the most recent common annecstor of the 2 organisms.

 

EX: fish eye vs octopus eye

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Homoplasy-Convergence
Definition
character appears to be similar but arises from completely different development pathways
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Homoplasy-Parallelism
Definition
similar characters that are derived from similar developmental pathways
Term
Plesiomorphy
Definition

an ancestral condition

(sometimes, "Primative")

Term
Synampomorphy
Definition
a derived character that is shared by the most recent common ancestor and by 2 or more descendants of that ancestor. AKA homologous characters that define clades.  
Term
Placozoa
Definition

Multicellular, amorphous, mobile, flagellated animals lacking body cavity, digestive system, and nervous system and composed of 2 layers of epithelial cells.

+ no digestive system (no mouth)

+epithelial cells: endodermal deals with digesting food and absorbing ntrients . ectodermal is outer thin layer that is flagelated

+asexual reproduction :budding, fragmentation or binary fission 

Term
Porifera
Definition

+microvillar collars surround flagella 

+ lack nerves and no musculature, no specialized reproductive, digestive respirator, sensory or excretory organs are foud in this group

+ amorphous

+ asymmetrical creatures

+Choanocytes: generate current for seawater ciruclation, capture food and sperm.

+spongocoel

+Mesohyl layer contain archaeocytes which digest food from the choanocytes & eliminate waste

+ Spicules: siliceous or calcareous import for identification and support of sponge

+gemmules: dormant mostly freshwater

+evolution:increase flow of current through spongocoel and amount of surface area for food collection

+Calcarea, Demospongiae, hexactinellida

+amphiblastula: flagelatted at one end, calcarea larava

+parenchymella: demonspongia larvae, on flagellum

+larva free swimming for less than 24 hours

Term
Calcarea (porifera)
Definition

+ Spicules: Calcium carbonate

+ asconoid, synconoid and leuconoid all occur

+asconoid only in this

Term
Demospongiae (porifera)
Definition

+largest class

+Leuconoid construction

+Spicules: spongin and or silica

Term
Cnidarians
Definition

+ Secreation of complex intracellular organelles called cnidea (nematocysts) cnidoblats (turns inside out to shoot out of sac) trigered by chemical and tactile stimulation... primary force behind it is osmotic pressure..change in fluid pressure to make happen.. proctection, food collection and locomotion 

+ planula larvae in the life cycle

+ 2 body plans: medusa (swims)

and polyp form (stationary)

+ 2 layers of living tissue (epidermis and gastrodermis)

+radial symmetry

+mesoglea between epidermis and gastrodermis

+amoebocytes: digestion, nutrient transport and storage, wound repair and antibacterial defense

+single opening to digestive system

+ no anus

+mostly carnivorous... hermatypic corals use algae 

+ no central  nervous system 

Term
Ctenophora
Definition

1. Plates of fused cilia arranged in rows (Ctenes) for swimming

2) adhesive prey-capturing cell (colloblasts)

+ predators, marine, planktonic...weak swimmer

+ Colloblasts (adhesive structures) retractable tentacles for prey

+Gastrovascular cavity with 2 anal pores

+ Triploblastic

+Exculsively marine

+Biradial Symmetry 

Term
Platyhelminthes
Definition

+Triploblastic

+Bilaterally symmetrical

+Unsegmented

+Solid-bodied

+Dorso-ventrally flattened

+Simultaneous hermaphrodite

+Complex life cycles in parasitic form

Term

Mesozoa

 

Definition

+possible flatworm relatives

+Multicellular

+parasite

+no mouth or digestive system

+develop intracellulary

Term
Rotifera
Definition

+Triploblastic

+Bilateral symmetry

+Circular and longitudinal muscles

+Hemocoel

+Parthenogensis

Term
Acanthocephala
Definition

+Thorny head

+Triploblastic

+Syncytial epidermis

+Skeletal lamina

+Hemocoel

+Adults are gut (vertebrate) parasites

+no gut

Term
Cycliophora
Definition

+ Ciliated larval stage (chordoid larva) with a mesodermal rod of muscle cells

+lives on lobster's mouth

+attach by adhesive disk

+Ring of compound cilia

+Protosomes... gathers what lobster misses to eatsss

+ Feeding symbioints mate when lobster is preparing to molt... egg becomes a ciliated chordoid larva

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