Invertebrates Flashcards
Organism classified as a Heterotroph
Animals
Animal characteristics
Heterotrophs Multicellular No cell wall Cells organized into tissues Able to move Diverse Reproduce sexually Pattern on embryonic development
Only animal not organized into tissues
Sponges
System that only has vessels
Closed circulatory system
System that has combination of blood vessels and large thin walled sinuses
Open circulatory
Individual that can produce both sperm and eggs
Hermaphrodite
Suggested ancestor of bilateral invertebrates
choanoflagellates
Animal embryonic development
Zygote
Morula
Blastula
Gastrula
What forms the gut
Endoderm
Forms part of nervous system and epidermis
Ectoderm
Forms muscles and most internal organs
Mesoderm
What are the two diploblastic germlayers?
Endoderm
Ectoderm
What are the 3 triploblastic germ layers
Endoderm
Mesoderm
Ectoderm
Characterized by plane of symmetry that forms mirror images around vertical plane in midline
Bilateria
What are the advantages of bilateria
Greater efficiency in movement for seeking food and mates
What phylum did symmetrical body plans first evolve?
Cnidaria
Lack symmetry
Have no tissue or organs
Parazoa
Have tissue and more that one type of true tissues and organs
Eumetazoa