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Describe protostomes.

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  • Means mouth first.
  • Embryonic blastopore becomes the mouth. (As opposed to the anal opening in deuterostomes)
  • Bilaterally symmetrical.
2
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Describe Ecdysozoans?

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  • A group of protostome animals including Arthropoda.

* Grow by moulting exoskeleton and growing a new one.

3
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What is ‘heteronomous metamery’?

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A reduction in metamerism. (Linear series of body segments)

4
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Who were the ancestors of Arthropods?

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Unknown.

5
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Describe Onychophorans.

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  • Velvet worms.
  • Are Ecdysozoans, but not Arthropods.
  • Soft, fleshy, claw-bearing unjointed legs.
  • Thin flexible cuticle containing chitin.
  • Fluid-filled body cavities act as hydrostatic skeletons.
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Describe Tardigrades.

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  • Are ecdysozoans but not Arthropods.
  • 8 fleshy unjointed legs and hydrostatic skeletons.
  • Lack circulatory systems and gas exchange systems
  • Can lie dormant for at least a decade.
7
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What are the common features of Arthropods.

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  • Lost ancestral coelom.
  • Internal cavity has become a haemocoel.
  • Exoskeletons thickened by proteins and chitin.
8
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Describe trilobites.

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  • First jointed appendages found in the fossil records with beginnings of specialisation.
  • Heavy exoskeletons
  • Flourished in the Cambrian and Ordovician seas.
9
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Describe Myriapods.

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  • Many legs.
  • Includes centipedes and millipedes.
  • Head and a trunk.
10
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Describe Chelicerates.

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  • Bodies divided into two major regions.
  • Anterior region bears two pairs of appendages, modified to form mouthparts.
  • Many have four pairs of walking legs.
11
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Describe Arachnida.

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  • Includes spiders, scorpions, mites, harvestmen and ticks.

* Mites and ticks are vectors for disease.

12
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Describe Insecta.

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•Have bodies with three basic regions:

  • head with a single pair of antennae.
  • thorax with three pairs of legs.
  • abdomen with no appendages. (Unlike other Arthropods)
13
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Are Arthropods deuterostomes or protostomes?

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Protostomes.