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What are the functions of rigid arthropod exoskeleton? - CORRECT ANSWER-Support,
protection, and contributes to efficient locomotion
Specialized gas exchange found in aquatic species - CORRECT ANSWER-Gills: They increase
surface area for gas exchange, convoluted outgrowths containing blood vessels covered by a
thin epithelial layer.
Specialized gas exchange organs in insects - CORRECT ANSWER-Tracheal tubes. Help to increase
the surface area and volume area ratio.
Evidence that plants played an important role in insect diversification - CORRECT ANSWER--
Huge variety of a group of insects all at once and this seems to happen around the time seed
plants begin to diversify in the fossil record
-The first occurrence of flowering plants/angiosperms you see some diversification there as well
First animals present 710 mya ... - CORRECT ANSWER-Fossil Steroids
Animals 560 mya - CORRECT ANSWER-Were represented by a single community
, Name of the fossils from 560 mya - CORRECT ANSWER-Ediacaran
Two most ancient animal phyla - CORRECT ANSWER-Sponges and Comb Jellies
What phylum are sponges in? - CORRECT ANSWER-Porifera
How do Porifera feed? - CORRECT ANSWER-Tiny pores in their outer walls in which water is
drawn into filter food from the water
Do porifera have tissues? - CORRECT ANSWER-No
What is the function of choanocytes? - CORRECT ANSWER-generate flow of water
What is the function of amoebocytes? - CORRECT ANSWER-travel around distributing food and
oxygen to the cells of the epidermis
gastrovascular cavity - CORRECT ANSWER-primary organ of digestion and circulation
Simple nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER-includes sensory information, an integrating center,
and effectors.
Cambarian explosion - CORRECT ANSWER-The sudden appearance in the fossil record of
complex animals with mineralized skeletal remains. 541 mya. Possibly the most important
evolutionary event in the history of life on earth
Features of Bilateria - CORRECT ANSWER-Gastrovascular cavity with one opening, tripoblastic
(ecto, meso, endo)