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Invertebrates - Answer- Animals without a backbone
Animals in the phylum Porifera - Answer- sponges
Sponges are - Answer- sedentary and live in marine waters or fresh water
Filter feeders are - Answer- animals that capture food particles suspended in the water
that passes through their body
The body cavity that sponges have - Answer- spongocoel
Opening at the top of sponges - Answer- Osculum
Choanocytes - Answer- Flagellated collar cells that generate water current through the
sponge and ingest suspended food
Mesohyl - Answer- A gelatinous noncellular layer between two cell layers
Amoebocytes - Answer- found in the mesohyl and play roles in digestion and structure
Hermaphrodites - Answer- each individual functions as both male and female
Examples of cnidarians - Answer- Jellies, corals, and hydras
Body plan of cnidarians - Answer- gastrovascular cavity
Gastrovascular cavity - Answer- single opening that functions as a mouth and an anus
Two variations of the body plan - Answer- polyp and medusa
Polyp - Answer- Hydra, sessile on the aboral end.
Medusa - Answer- Jellies, bell shaped bodies with a mouth on the underside
Cnidarians are carnivores that use what to capture prey - Answer- tentacles
Cnidocyte - Answer- unique cells that function in defense and capture of prey
Nematocysts - Answer- specialized organelles within cnidocytes that eject a stinging
thread
, Medusozoans - Answer- All cnidarians that produce a medusa
Examples of Medsozoans - Answer- Scyphozoans(jellies), Cubozoans(box jellies), and
hydrozoans
Hydras reproduce by - Answer- budding
Anothozoans only occur as - Answer- polyps
Corals often form symbioses with algae and secrete a hard - Answer- exoskeleton
the clade bilateria contains (3) - Answer- Lophotrocozoa, ecdysozoa, and deuterostomia
T OR F Flatworms are acoelomates - Answer- true
What regulates the osmotic balance in flatworms - Answer- protnephridia
What are the best-known rabditphorans - Answer- planarians
planarians use _____ to see - Answer- light sensitive eyespots
Planarian anatomy - Answer-
Two different types of rhabditophorans - Answer- trematodes and tapeworms
trematodes - Answer- parasite that spend most of their life in snails. they have
alternating sexual and asexual stages
tapeworms - Answer- parasites of vertebrates that lack a digestive system. absorb
nutrients from the host's intestine
the tapeworms units that contain sex organs - Answer- proglottids
Rotifers - Answer- tiny animals that inhabit fresh water, the ocean, and damp soil
A digestive tube with a separate mouth and anus that lies within a fluid filled
pseudocoelom - Answer- Alimnetary canal
The process where females produce offspring from unfertilized eggs - Answer-
parthenogenesis
Sessile colonial animals that superficially resemble plants - Answer- ectoprocts
Animals that superficially resemble clams and molluscs - Answer- Brachiopods