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Chapter 32 & 33

Kingdom Animilia

  • Over 1.5 million species
    • Estimated 73 million
  • 35 Phylums
    • Over half are insects
  • More similarities within animal genomes than other kingdoms

Characteristics 

  • Multicellular
  • Lack of cell wall
  • Sexual reproduction
    • mobile sperm
    • larger non-motile egg
  • Nervous Tissue
    • Complexity
    • Responsiveness
  • Hox Genes
    • Special clusters of genes associated with the planning of the body

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Metazoans

  • All animals
  • Multicellular animals
  • Paratoans
    • Sponges
  • Eumetazoans
    • "true" multicellular animals

Classification/Systematics

  • Old
    • Morphology
    • Embryotic Development
  • Recent
    • Molecular genetics

Body Plans

Morphological and Developmental Features

  1. Body Symmetry
  2. Number of tissue Layers
  3. Patterns of Embryonic development 

Symmetry

  • Eumetazoa
    • Divided by symmetry
  • Radiata
    • Radial symmetry
    • Often Circular or tubular
  • Bilateria
    • Bilateral symmetry
    • Dorsal
      • Back
    • Ventral
      • Front
    • Anterior
    • Posterior
    • cephalization
      • enlarged head

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Tissues

  • Metazoa
    • all animals
    • divided on weather or not they have specialized tissues
  • Parazoa
    • Porfera
      • sponges
      • may have distinct cell types
  • Enmetazoa
    • more than one type of tissue
    • organs
    • all other animals
Germ Layers
  • Radial
    • 2 layers
    • Diploblastic
      • endoderm
      • extoderm
  • Bilateral
    • 3 layers
    • Triploblastic
      • endoderm
      • extoderm
      • mesoderm

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Embryonic Development
  • Protostome
    • Blastopore becomes mouth
    • cleavage is determinate
      • fate of embryonic cells are determined early
  • Deuterostome (second opening)
    • Blastopore becomes anus
    • cleavage is indeterminate
    • each cell produced by early cleavage can develop into a complete embryo 
Other Morphological Characteristics

Used in classification

  • Presence or absence or coelom
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