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1
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are there exceptions to nearly every criteria for distinguishing animals from other life-forms

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yes

2
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what defines a group?

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several characteristics, taken together

3
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how do most animals reproduce?

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sexually, with the diploid stage usually dominating the life cycle

4
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after a sperm fertilizes an egg in animals what happens/

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the zygotes undergoes cleavage

5
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rapid cell division

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cleavage

6
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what does cleavage lead to the formation of?

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a multicellular hollow blastula

7
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what does the blastula undergo?

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gastrulation

8
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after the bastula goes through gastrulation what does it form?

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a gatrula with different layers of embryonic tissues

9
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characteristics of most animals (5) (MSSTC)

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1) mobile
2) use strength
3) use speed
4) use toxins
5) use camaflogue to detect, capture and eat other organism

10
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what is an example of an animal using its traits to its advantage/

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the chameleon captures insect prey with its long sticky, quick-moving tongue

11
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what type of nutritional mode do animals have?

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they are heterotrophs that ingest their food

12
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what type of cells are animals?

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multicellular eukaryotes

13
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what do animal cells lack?

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cell walls

14
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what are animal bodies held together by?

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structural protein such as collagen

15
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what is unique in animals and is the defining characteristic of animals?

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nervous and muscle tissue

16
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groups of similar cells that acts a functional unit. collections of specialized cells

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tissues

17
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what do most animals have at least one of?

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larval stage

18
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sexually immature and morphologically distinct from the adult. it eventually undergoes metamophasis to become a juvenile

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larva

19
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what does a juvenile larva resemble?

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an adult, but s not yet sexually mature

20
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what do most animals and only animals have?

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hox genes

21
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what do hox genes regulate?

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the development of body form

22
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although the hox family of genes has been highly conserved, what can it produce?

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a wide diversity of animal morphology

23
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when did the Cambrian explosion occur?

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during the Paleozoic era

24
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what marks the earliest fossil appearance of many major groups of living animals?

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the cambrian explosion

25
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what are most of the fossils from the cambrian explosion?

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bilaterians

26
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what characteristics to the organisms from the cambrian explosion have? (bco)

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1) bilaterally symmetric form
2) complete digestive tract
3) one-way digestive system

27
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when did the common ancestor of all living animals live?

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between 700 and 770 million years ago

28
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during the neopreterzoic era what did early members of the animal fossil record include?

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Edicaran biota

29
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during the neopreterzoic era what evidence was found?

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early animal embryos and evidence of predation found in neopreterzoic rocks

30
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what does morphologial and molecular evidence point to?

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a group of protists called chaonoflagellates as the closest living relative to animals

31
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what may the protists called chaonglagellates resmeble?

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modern chaonoglagellates

32
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several hypothesis regarding the cause of the cambrian explosion and decline of Edicaran biota

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1) new predator-prey relationships
2) a rise in atmospheric oxygen
3) the evolution of the hox gene complex

33
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even though animal diversity continued to increase through the Paleozoic what was it punctuated by?

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mass extinctions

34
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when did animals begin to make an impact on land?

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by 450 million years ago

35
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when did verterbrates make the transition to land?

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around 365 million years ago

36
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what do zoologists sometimes categorize animals according to?

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a body plan

37
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a set of morphological and developmental traits

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body plan

38
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what is true of body plans?

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some have been conserved and some have changed multiple times over the course of evolution

39
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two-sided symmetry

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bilateral symmetry

40
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characteristics of a bilaterally symetrical animal (3) (DRI)

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1) dorsal (top) side and a ventral (bottom side)
2) a right and left side
3) an anterior (front) and posterior (back) ends

41
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what else might a bilaterally symmetrical animal have?

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sensory equipment such as brain, concentrated in the anterior end

42
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when did coral reefs emerge and what did they become important as?

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mesozoic era becoming an important marine ecological niche for other organisms

43
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what were and what happened to the ancestors of pleisiosaurs

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they were reptiles that returned to water

44
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during the Mesozoic era what were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates?

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dinosaurs

45
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what emerged during the Mesozoic era?

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the first mammals

46
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what diversified during the Mesozoic era?

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plants and insects

47
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what can animals be catergorized according to?

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symmetry of their bodies or lack of it

48
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animals with no front and back, or left and right

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radial symmetry

49
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what are radial animals usuallly?

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sessile (dormant) or planktonic (drifting or weakly swimmin)

50
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what are bilateral animals and what do they have that radial animals do not?

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often move more actively and have a central nervous system

51
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what did the beginning of the Cenozoic era follow?

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mass extinctions of both terrestrial and marine animals

52
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what do the exintctions during the Cenozoic era include?

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large, nonflying dinosauras and marine reptiles

53
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what happned to mammals during the Cenozoic era?

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they increased in size and exploited vacated elcological niches

54
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what happened o the global climate during the Cenozoic era?

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it cooled

55
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what varies according to the organization of the animal’s tissues?

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an animal’s body plan

56
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what are tissues isolated from and by what?

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other tissues by membranous layers

57
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during development of animals, what gives rise to the tissues and the organs of the animal embryo?

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3 germ layers

58
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the germ layers covering the embryo’s surface

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ectoderm

59
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the innermost germ layer and lines the developing digestive tube, called the archentron

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endoderm

60
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based on early development what can many animals be categorized by?

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as having protosome development or deuterostome development

61
Q

what groups lack tissues?

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sponges and a few others

62
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animals that have an ectoderm and endoderm

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diploblastic

63
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what does diploblastic animals include?

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cnidarians and few other groups

64
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animals have an intervening layer called a mesoderm

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triploblastic

65
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what do triploblatic animals include?(3) (FAV)

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1) flatworms
2) arthopods
3) vertebrates and others

66
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a body cavity derived from the mesoderm and endoderm

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pseudocoelom

67
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what do triploblastic animals posses and what are they called?

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a pseudocoelom called pseudocoelmates

68
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what is cleavage in protostome development?

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spiral and determinate

69
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what is cleavage in deuterostome development?

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radial and indeterminate

70
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with inderminate cleavage what is each cell?

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in the early stages of cleavage

71
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what does cellsdeuterostome cleavage in its early stages show?

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that it retains its capacity to devleop into a complete embryo

72
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what does intermindate cleavage make possible?

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identical twins and embryonic stem cells

73
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what do most triploblastic animals possess?

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a body cavity

74
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what is a true body cavity called and what is it derived from?

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a coelom and is derived from mesoderm

75
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animals that possess a true coelom

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coelomates

76
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what are triploblastic animals that lack a body cavity called?

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acoelomates

77
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in protosome development how is the coelom formed?

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by the splitting of solid masses of mesoderm

78
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in deuteorstome how is the coelom formed?

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the mesoderm buds from the wall of the archentron

79
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what do phylogenies now combine?

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morphological, molecular and fossil data

80
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three clades of bilaterian (DEL)

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1) deuterostomia
2) ecdysozoa
3) lophotrochozoa

81
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what does dueterstomia include? (3) (HEC)

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1) hemichordates (acorn worms)
2) echinoderms (seas stars and relatives)
3) chordates

82
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what does the deuterstomia clade include?

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both vertibrates and inverterbrates

83
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when does the blastopore dorm and what does it connect to?

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during gastrulation and connect the archentergon to the exterior of the gastrula

84
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what happens to the blastophore in protostome devleopment?

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it becomes the mouth

85
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what happens to the blastophore in deuterostome development?

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it becomes the anus

86
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5 important points about animal phylogeny that are supported by systemic analysis of morphological characters and recent molecular studies (5) (ASEM3)

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1) all animals share a common ancestor
2) sponges are basal animals
3) eumetazoa (true animals) is a clade of animals with true tissues
4) most animal phyla belong to the clade billateria
5) 3 major types of billaterial animals

87
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what do the three major clades of bilaterian animals include?

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all invertebrates (lacks back bone) except chordata which are vertebrates (have back bone)

88
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clad of invertebraes that shed their exoskeleton through a process called ecdysis

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ecdysozoa

89
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a feeding structure that most lophtrochorozoans have

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lophophore

90
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whatdo other lophotrochozoa go through?

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a distinct developmental stage called the trochophore larva

91
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a group whose members share key biological features

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grade

92
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a group consisting of an ancestor and all its descendents

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clade

93
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two grades that regard embryonic germ layers

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1) diploblastic

2) trploblastic

94
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what diplobastic include?

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ectoderm and endoderm

95
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what does triploblastic include?

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ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm.

96
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3 different grades of colemn

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1) pseducolmates
2) colomates
3) acolemates

97
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when determinate and sprial claeavage take place

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protosome development

98
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when radical and interminate cleavage take place

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duetersome development

99
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having two layers of embryoynic tissue layers, the ectoderm and endoderm

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diploblastic

100
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when there is a 3rd layer present, the mesoderm

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triploblastic

101
Q

describe the alternate classifications of acoelomate flatworms that are supported by systems analyses of morphological characters and recent molecular studies

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recent research showed that they are basal bilaterians and not members of the phylum platyhelminthes.

102
Q

what does the fact that recent research showing that acoelomate flatworms are basal bilaterians suggest/

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that bilaterians may have descended from a common ancestor that resembled living acoelomate flatworms

103
Q

how would living acoelomate resemble acoelomate flatworms?

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they had a similar nervous system, saclike gut with a single opening and no excretory system

104
Q

what was the different view that arose based on regarding relationships of annelids and arthropods that are supported by system analyses of morphological characters and recent molecular studies

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1) ribosomal genes
2) hox genes
3) dozens of other protein coding nuclear genes

105
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what did the studies about the relationships between annalids and arthropods indicate the 3 major clades are?

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1) deuterostomia
2) lophotrochozoa
3) ecdysoszoa

106
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are arthropods and annalids closely related to one another?

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no