INVERTEBRATE DIVERSITY SECTION (Biol.201), Spr 2000

Dr. Kathy S. Williams (email kwilliams@sunstroke.sdsu.edu)

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Matrix of animals with a true coelom:
Coelomate Protostomes to Deuterostomes

Material presented in class on Friday, 4/7/00 and Monday 4/10/00.
Quiz # 7 given Mon 4/10 is at bottom of this page

Try filling in this chart; practice making charts like this and filling them in to study in a comparative way.

However, don’t stop after ‘memorizing’ information in a table like this.

•  Ask yourself if the characteristics allow the animals to do something different than other
        animals, or live somewhere that other animals cannot live (especially compared to
        ancestral forms).
•  Ask if the characteristics are found in ancestral forms or not.
•  Be able to explain what animals are more closely related to one another - and why


Included in this table are only a few of the many categories you might use for comparisons - add more to help you study (you might add modes of reproduction, for example).
|-------------- 
Bilateral 
Coelomates
---------------
 ------------ --------------->
|-------------------- -------------- Protostomes ---------------------- --------------| Deuterostomes
Mollusca Annelida
|--------------
-----Arthropoda--- -------------| Echinodermata
      Chelicerata Crustacea Uniramia  
SYMMETRY bilateral bilateral bilateral bilateral bilateral  
BODY FORM 
/CAVITY?
coelomate
- schizocoelom
coelomate coelomate coelomate coelomate  
embryonic TISSUE LAYERS 3 layers 3 layers 3 layers 3 layers    3 layers
DIGESTION complete digestive tract          
CIRCULATION      open      
RESPIRATION            
MOVEMENT    circular & longitudinal muscles    jointed appendages    
NERVOUS SYSTEM    cerebral ganglia, ventral solid n.c.  cerebral ganglia, ventral solid n.c.      
HABITAT  aquatic (marine & fresh) & terrestrial  aquatic (marine), damp soils  aquatic (marine) & fully terrestrial      aquatic (marine),
EXCRETION  excretory tubes          
SKELETON            endoskeleton
SPECIALTIES?            

Quiz #7

1. Which of the following is not associated with a parasitic lifestyle as seen in Cestoda and Trematoda?
    a. complex digestive systems
    b. flattened body
    c. extensive reproductive organs
    d. life cycles with multiple hosts
    e. reduced gastrovascular cavity

2. The presence of a true coelom is advantageous because  …
    a. it is the third germ layer.
    b. it permits development of open circulatory systems
    c. it provides a space for the development of internal organs.
    d. it is necessary for a digestive system.
    e. it functions in performing excretion.

3. Write one main idea about invertebrate biology you learned about today. (2 pts)