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Parazoa
lecture 4 test 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What makes up the Phylum Porifera? | sponges |
| Sponges are sessile. What does sessile mean? | anchored to one spot; just sits there |
| Has pores, no true tissue, asymetrical-no symmetery, mostly salt-water-few freshwater | characterisitics of sponges |
| spongocel | a cavity or space inside of the sponge through which water flows |
| a large opening (mouth) of a spponge through which water flow out..may have more than one | osculum |
| epidermis | layer of cells that cover the outer surface of the sponge. |
| thin flattened cells of the epidermis | pinacocytes |
| porocyte (ppor cells) | cells with pores that allow water into the sponge; all over sponges body |
| line the inner cavity; funnel-shapped;collects food particles;involved in reproduction | collar cells (chanocyte) |
| gelatinous layer (mesophyl) | the layer between the outer body and the inner cavity |
| cells with pseudopods, located in the mesohyl; process and distrubute food | amoebocyte |
| spiky, sharp spikes made of calicium carbonate; form the skeleton of many sponges | spicules |
| the flexible, fibrous fibers that form the skeletons of horny sponges; spongy | spongin |