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Zoology 101
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sponges are unusual among animals because they lack? | Tissues |
| According to the essay by Thomas Malthus, as population increases, so does? | Competition |
| In Science, a law is? | a cause-effect relationship that is usually true |
| All cnidarian animals have? | radial symmetry, nematosis, three tissue layers |
| In tissue-organ tissue complexity/organization, the division of labor is among? | Organs |
| The type of symmetry that results in the development of a specific head end of an organism? | Bilateral Symmetry |
| If you have a group of organisms that you think are very closely related, than they should have what in common? | Synapomorphies |
| The scientific name of an organism is comprised of which two taxinomic rankings? | Genus + Species |
| Characteristics of an organism that you can count are called what traits? | Meristic |
| A niche represents | the basic needs for an organism's survival |
| During development, the anus is the first end of the alimentary canal to form | Deuterosomes |
| The embryos of these organisms divide using spiral clevage | Protosomes |
| These organisms display mosaic development | Protosomes |
| These organisms form the coleom via outpocketing in the embryo | Deuterosomes |
| What is another term for outpocketing in the embryo? | enterocoelous development |
| The echinoderms, hemichordates and chordates are examples of these organisms | Deuterosomes |
| Formed by the sclerocytes and help to support the body of a sponge | Spicules |
| During sexual reproduction, these become sperm | Choanocytes |
| These cells have flagella and help to bring food and oxygen into the sponge | Choanocytes |
| These cells are multi-purpose cells, transforming into one of four different specialized cells | Archaeocytes |
| During sexual reproduction, these cells become eggs | Archaeocytes |
| A group of interacting populations of different organisms | Community |
| A colony of small, isolated groups of individuals that interact via migration | Metapopulation |
| The ecological level that actually undergoes evolution | Population |
| The organic and inorganic conditions in which an organism lives | Environment |
| A type of population that can be thought of as either a "source" or a "sink" | Deme |
| What do Cnidarians lack | Tissues |
| Another name for the scientific method | Hypothetico-deductive method |
| Who first proposed that the earth could be millions of years old? | Charles Lyell |
| In Cndarians what represents inversions of one another | Polyp and Medusa |
| Natural Selection | Mechanism by which evolution works to shape organisms |