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Z 362 Lab 3
Important terms from Lab 3 for the midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Filter Feeding | Capturing food particles from water that is usually passed over a specialized feeding structure or cell type |
| Deposit Feeding | Obtaining nutrients by picking out particles in the sediment/soil |
| Asconoid | Simplest sponge body form; water passes through the ostia and enters into the spongocoel |
| Syconoid | Second most complex sponge body form; choanocyte chambers pocket around the central spongocoel |
| Leuconoid | Most complex sponge body form; no true spongocoel - just channels connecting adjacent choanocyte chambers |
| Choanocyte Chambers | Structures that are rounded and made up of choanocytes |
| Coral Bleaching | When coral tissue appears white without pigmentation from its symbionts |
| Ocelli | Eye in Platyhelminthes |
| Auricle | |
| Acetabulum | Sucker on flukes' (trematodes) ventral surface to attach to their host |
| Scolex | Anterior end of tapeworms (cestodes) that is commonly covered with hooks and suckers |
| Mantle | Specialized tissue made by the shell |
| Radula | Rasping feeding structure |
| Foot | Serves in locomotion in Mollusca |
| Umbo | Anterior end of a mussel |
| Incurrent Siphon | Allow water to be drawn into the body |
| Excurrent Siphon | Allows excess water and wastes to pass out of the body |
| Labial Palps | Food shorting structures near the mouth |
| Posterior Adductor Muscle | Major muscle in mussels holding the valves together |
| Ctenedia | Special name for the gills in molluscs |
| Visceral Mass | |