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Animail Phylum
Determine by characteristics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Are there more invertebrates or vertebrates? | Invertebrates (ocean diversity over 100 million years) |
| What is an Animal? | Only animals pass through a blastula stage in their embryonic development. |
| Name 3 characteristics that only animals share? | Multicelled heterotrophic no cell walls |
| Porifera | Sponges;Asymmetry;no tissues; no symmetry; no coelom/cavity; mostly marine |
| Cnidaria | Jellyfish;coarl;anemones;hydrozoans; radial symmetry;no coelom/cavity; mostly marine |
| Platyhelminthes | flatworms; tapeworms; bilateral; no coelom/cavity; protostome/blastopore=mouth marine;fresh;moist enviornment |
| Annelida | segmented worms; leeches; annelid; bilateral;protostome/blastopore=mouth mostly marine;fresh;terestrial |
| Mollusca | snail;oyster;squid;bilateral;protostomes/blastopore=mouth; marine;fresh;terest |
| Nematoda | roundworms;bilateral;protostomes/blastopore=mouth; small in size;almost all environments;crop pests;parasitic |
| Anthropoda | insects;spiders;mites;crab;shimp;centipedes;bilateral;protostomes/blastopore=mouth;aquatic;terestrial;skeleton made of chitin;segmented;open circulatory |
| Echinodermata | Sea star;sea utchins;sea cucumbers;bilateral/radial symetry as adults;always marine ocean floor;deuterostomes/blastopore=anus |
| Chordata | vertebrates lancelets seaquirls; exp frog human; aquatic;blastopor=anus; terestrial;@ some point they have a notocord dorsal nerve cord;pharygeal slits;postanaltail;bilateral; |