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General Biology II - Overview of Animal Diversity

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animals are efficient (producers/consumers)   consumers  
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animals are __________   multicellular, heteroprophic eukaryotes with tissues that develop from embryonic layers  
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what does heterotroph mean   an organism that feeds by ingesting food then using enzymes to digest said food within food  
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animals are multicellular but lack _______________   support from cell walls  
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because animal cells are not supported by a cell wall, how do animal bodies support animal cells   external proteins help support animal cells and they connect them to one another (ex. collagen)  
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animal cells are organized into ________________, which consist of groups of similar cells that act as a functional unit   tissue  
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most animal reproduce (sexually/asexually)   sexually  
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in most animals (haploid/diploid) stage dominates their life cycle   diploid  
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in animals haploid sperms and eggs are produced directly by   meiosis  
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what is formed when an animal sperm (motile) and egg (non-motile) meet   a diploid zygote is formed  
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after fertilization the zygote undergoes _________________________, which is the rapid succession of mitotic divisions without cell growth between divisions   cleavage  
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the cleavage of a zygote leads to the formation of multicellular stage called _________________________ (in many animals, this stage takes form of hollow ball)   blastula  
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after the blastula stage is a process called __________________, during which layers of embryonic tissues that develop into body parts are produced and results in developmental stage called _______________   gastulation; gastrula  
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life cycles of most animals include at least one ___________________ stage (except humans)   laval  
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_____________________ is a sexually immature form of animal, that is morphologically distinct from adult, usually eats different food and may have different habitat than adult   larva  
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larva undergo _________________, which is developmental transformation turns animal into juvenile that resembles adult but is not yet sexually mature   metamorphosis  
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adult animals vary greatly in morphology, but all have similar ______________ that control development and ones that regulate expression of other genes   genes  
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____________________ are sets of DNA sequences in regulatory genes   homeoboxes  
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most animals share unique homeobox-containing family of genes knowns as ____________ genes   Hox  
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why are Hox genes are important in ___________   embryo development  
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__________________ are among the simplest of extant animals, they lack Hox genes, but have other homeobox genes   sponges  
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there are about __________________ million extant species of animals that have been identified   1.3  
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the animal kingdom (is/is not) very diverse and includes coral, cockroaches, and crocodiles   the animal kingdom IS very diverse  
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the closest living relative of animals seem to be   choanoflagellates  
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the _________________ DNA sequence analysis shows that the CCD region of protein domain is not present in choanoflagellates, but highly conserved in animals   Cadherin  
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_________________ are the most generally accepted macroscopic fossils of animals dating from 560 mya   ediacaran biota  
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ediacaran biota resemble ___________________ and others of the period and may be related to sponges and _________________   molluscs; cnidarians  
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ediacaran biota are (hard/soft) bodied   soft bodied  
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fossils from this time show evidence of ________________ (ex. cloudina fossil with holes bore into its shell frome the attacker)   predation  
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what is the cambrian explosion   a wave of animal diversification about 525 mya, it was sudden and enormous  
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most of the animals that came about during the Cambrian explosion were _____________   bilaterians  
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what are the bilaterians   an enormous clad whose members have two-sided or bilaterallly symmetric form and complete digestive tract  
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a lot more predator-prey relationships emerged during the __________________ period leading to a decline of soft-bodied organisms   Cambrian  
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Ordovician, silurian, and devonian periods occured after the cambrian explosion with increased animal diversity though punctuated with ________________________   mass extictions  
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during the ordovician, silurian, and devonian periods ___________________ emerged as the top predators of the marine food chain/web   vertebrates (fish)  
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during the ordovician, silurian, and devonian periods ___________________ were the first animals to adapt to terrestrial habitates   arthropods  
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______________________ colonized the land around 365 mya   vertebrates colonized the land around 365 mya  
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name the two type of vertebrates that colonized the land around 365 mya and still exist today   1) amphibians and 2) amniotes (reptiles including birds and mammals)  
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during the _____________ era, animals spread to new habitats and descent with modification led to the origin of tetrapods, wings, and other tools of flight   mesozoic  
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dinosaurs emerged during the ____________________ era   dinosaurs emerged during the MESOZOIC Era  
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the first mammals emerge during the mesozoic ara and were ______________   nocturnal insect eaters  
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the cenozoic era was ushered in by ________________________   cenozoic era was ushered in by mass extinctions  
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during the ___________________ era, there was a rise of large mammalian herbivores and predators as mammals rose to prominence   cenozoic  
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a _______________ is a particular set of morphological and developmental traits integrated into functional whole-living animal   body plan  
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body plan features include   1) symmetry, 2) tissues, 3) body cavities, 4) protostome and deuterostome development  
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(all/not all) animals are symmetrical to some extent   NOT ALL animals are symmetrical (ex: sponges are not symmetrical)  
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the symmetry of the animal fits __________________   its lifestyle  
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name the two types of symmetry found in animals   radial and bilarteral symmetry  
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what type of symmetrical is the human body   bilateral symmetry  
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this type of symmetry is like taking an imaginary slice through a central axis and divides the animal into mirror images   radial symmetry  
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_______________ symmetry divides the animals in to left side and right side   bilateral symmetry (right and left)  
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in quadruped animals the dorsal side is   the top (think "dorsal fin" on a shark or killer whale)  
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in quadruped animals the ventral side is   the bottom  
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in quadruped animals the anteriof side is   the front  
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in quadruped animals the posterior side is   the back  
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(all/not all) animals have true tissues   NOT ALL animals have true tissues (ex: sponges and a couple others)  
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tissues originate while the animal is still in embryo, they arise from specific layers during gastrulation, forming ______________________   germ layers  
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name the two main germ layers that occur in all animals   ectoderm and endoderm  
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this germ layer covers the surface of embryo and gives rise to the outer covering in animals, sometimes to nervous system   ectoderm - gives rise to the outer covering of animals  
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in embryos this is the innermost germ layer which lines the ouch that forms during the gastrulation (archenteron) and gives rise to the lining of the digestive track (or cavity) and organs such as liver and lungs of vertebrates   endoderms - gives rise to the inner organs such as lungs, liver, and digestive organs  
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when the embryo of an animal has only two germ layers they are said to be _________________   diploblastic (includes only endoderm and ectoderm)  
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bilaterally symmetrical animals have a third germ layer called __________________   mesoderm  
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the mesoderm eventually forms into what tissues/organs   muscles and most other organs between digestive tract and outer covering of the animal  
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Cnidrarians are (diploblastic/triploblastic)   cnidrarians are DIPLOBLASTIC  
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animal embryos with that include a mesoderm during gastrulation phase are said to be   triploblastic  
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most animals that are triploblastic (will/will not) have a body cavity   triploblastic animals WILL have body cavities  
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what are body cavities   fluid-filled or air-filled space between digestive tract and outer body wall  
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those animals who have body cavities are called   coelum  
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a "true" coelum froms from the ______________________ germ layer and animals with a coelum are called _________________   mesoderm; coelomates  
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a body cavity that forms from the mesoderm AND the endoderm germ layers are called ______________________ and the animals that form this way as an embryo are called ___________________________   pseudocoelum; pseudocoelomates  
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a pseudocoelum (is/is not) a fully functioning body cavity   psuedocoelum IS a fully functioning body cavity  
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animals that lack body cavities are   acoelomates  
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what is the function of body cavities   to suspend organs and help prevent internal injury  
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what is unique about an earthworms' coelum   it contains non-compressible fluid that acts as a skeleton against which muscles can work  
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the unique coelum in an earthworm has another name, it is called the _____________________________   hydrostatic skeleton  
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what distinguishes the difference between protostome and deuterostome development   differences in cleavage, coelum formation, and fate of blastopore  
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animals with protostome development undergo _________________ cleavage   animals with protostome development undergo SPIRAL cleavage  
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in embryos with spiral cleavage, the planes of cell division is ____________________________________   diagonal to the vertical axis of the embryo  
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what is a determinate cleavage   a rigidly cast developmental fate of each embryonic cell very early  
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deuterostome development is characterized by __________________ cleavage   deuterostome development is characterized by RADIAL cleavage  
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embryos with radial cleavage the planes of cell division are __________________________________________   either parallel to or perpendicular to the vertical axis  
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indeterminate cleavage is   when each cell produced early retains capacity to developer into compete embryo  
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I take a cell out of an embryo and the embryo grows into a fully functioning infant animal but does not have a left arm because that cell was taken out of the embryo. this is an example of (determinate/indeterminate) cleavage   determinate cleavage  
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when developing into the digestive tube it initially forms into a ______________________________   blind pouch (archenteron) which becomes the gut  
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in a protestome, the archenteron forms from   solid masses of mesoderm splitting and forming coelum  
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in deuterostome development, the archenteron buds from   the mesoderm and a cavity becomes the coelum  
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define a blastopore   indentation that during gastrulation leads to formation of archenteron  
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after archenteron develops in most animals a second opening forms at opposite end of gastrula- mostly becoming two openings of the _____________________   digestive tube  
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in a protostome development the mouth forms from the _____________   blastopore  
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in deuterostome, the mouth is derived from secondary opening and the blastopore forms the ________________   anus  
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all animals (do/do not) share a common ancestor   all animals DO share a common ancestor  
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sponges are _________________ animals   sponges are BASAL animals  
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___________________ is a clade of true animals with true tissues   eumetazoa  
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most animals phyla belong to clade ____________________ (Hint: most animals have bilateral symmetry)   Bilateria  
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what are the three major clades of bilaterians   1) deuterostomia, 2) ecdysozoa, 3) lophotrochozoa  
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this major bilateria clade sheds their exoskeleton   ecdysozoa  
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this major bilateria clade are known as having lophophore (a crown of ciliated tentacles used for feeding)   lophotrochozoa  
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