Taxonomy
The Systematic ordering and naming of organisms
Phylum Diplomonada
Parasitic unicellular flagellates. Ex: Giardia
Pellicle
A thin secreted envelope that covers an organism
Phylum Euglenozoa
Motile flagellates, reproduces by binary fission. Has two subphylums; Euglenida and Kinetoplasta
Phylum Euglenozoa Subphylum Euglenida
Most contain chloroplasts, can switch from autotrophic to heterotrophic
Phylum Euglenozoa Subphylum Kinetoplasta
Has a single large mitochondria containing a kinetoplastid. Many are parasitic and belong to the genus Trypanosoma.
Tsetse fly
Vector for Trypanosoma brucei which causes African Sleeping Sickness
Phylum Ciliophora
Covered with cilia that beat in a coordinated manner. Diploid. Multinucleated. Has a micro and macro nucleus. EX: PARAMECIUM (which can replicate sexually or asexually).
Sessile
fixed to one spot
Phylum Dinoflagellata
Half are autotrophic with chloroplasts and half are heterotrophic and colorless. HAve armored plates of cellulose. Has two flagella that are in perpendicular grooves. Cause of ‘red tides’. Can be bioluminescent. EX: PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA.
Zooxanthellae
Dinoflagellates that live in a mutualistic association in the tissue of corals.
Phylum Apicomplexa (Sporozoa)
All are endoparasites with an apical complex which helps penetrate the host’s cells. EX: PLASMODIUM which causes malaria.
P. FALCIPARUM, P. VIVAX, P. MALARIAE, P. OVALE
Four types of plasmodium that cause malaria.
Genus Anopheles
Mosquito vector that transmits plasmodium
Phylum Amoebozoa
Includes shelled (testate) and non shelled amebas. Has entozoic amebas ex: ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA which causes amoebic dysentery.
Phylum Foraminifera
Shelled amebas bearing slender pseudopodia that extend through many openings in the testate. This produces a net to capture prey. Their shells are made of calcium carbonate. Abundant in the fossil record.
Phylum Radiolaria
Marine testate amebas. Body divided into a central capsule that separates the inner and outer zones of the cytoplasm. Has a axopedia which are long, slender permanent pseudopodia.
Choanoflagellates
Small group of solitary or colonial aquatic organisms. Most sessile. Each cell has a flagellum surrounded by a collar of microvilli. They resemble feeding cells in sponges called choanocytes.
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish Botanist- recognized for being the ‘father of nomenclature’. Proposed binomial naming system. Developed first workable classification system
Species
Members of a reproductive community that excludes members of other species.
Sibling (cryptic) species
Species too similar in morphology to be separated by morphological characters alone
Type Specimens
Specimen that are labeled and deposited in a museum at the time that the species is first described
Holotype
A single specimen that is clearly designated in the original description of the species and is placed in a major museum
Paratype
Each type of specimen other than the holotype referred to in the original species description. These are located in the museum’s research collection
DNA Barcoding
A technique for identifying organisms to species using a sequence information from a standard gene present in all animals
Monera (Bacteria), Fungi, Protista, Plantae, Animalia
The Five Basic Kingdoms proposed by Robert Whittaker
Archaea, Bacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
Six Kingdom System
Domain Archaea
Prokaryotes that differ from bacteria in membrane structure and ribosomal RNA sequences
Domain Bacteria
Prokaryotes (Lack organelles and nuclear membrane)
Domain Eukarya
Eukaryotes (has organelles and a nuclear membrane)
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
Classification Categories in Order
Taxonomists
People who specialize in identifying naming and classifying organisms
Systematists
Taxonomists that use evolutionary theory to try and establish relationships between different groups
Cladistics
A system of arranging taxa by analysis of evolutionary derived characteristics so that the arrangement reflects phylogenetic relationships.
Phylogeny
The origin and diversification of a taxonomic group (the evolutionary history of its origin)
Ancestral Character State
A character presumed to be present in the common ancestor of the entire taxon of interest
Derived Character State
A character presumed to have arose later within the taxon
Clade
A subset of species that share derived character states
Cladogram
A nested hierarchy of clades presented as a branching diagram
Monophyletic
A taxon that includes the most recent common ancestor of the group and all the descendants of that ancestor
Paraphyletic
A taxon that includes the most recent common ancestor of all the members of the group and some but not all dependents of that ancestor
Polyphyletic
A taxon that does not include the most common ancestor of all members of a group
Homologous Structures
Structures that are proposed to have been passed on from a common ancestor because they are similar in structure
Analogous Structures
Structures similar in function but structurally unrelated
Animal-like Protists
All activities occur within a single plasma membrane. No germ layer present. No tissue, but specialized organelle occur.
Symbiosis
One organism lives in intimate association with another
Mutualism
Symbiosis where both organisms benefit
Commensalism
Symbiosis where one member benefits and the other is unaffected
Parasitism
Symbiosis where there is a host/parasite relationship
Autotrophic
Feeding strategy that uses inorganic chemicals and energy to produce organic material
Heterotrophic
Feeding strategy that requires a supply or organic matter from the environment
Flagella
Whip-like tail in cells that has a propellor like movement
Cilia
Little protrusions in the cell that facilitate lateral movement, handling food, and reproduction.
Pseudopodia
Temporary cytoplasmic protrusion out from the cell
Osmoregulation
Active regulation of internal osmotic pressure
Contractile Vacuole
A vacuole in some protists that expels excess liquid on contraction
Phylum Porifera
Phylum containing sponges
Simplest
Sponges are considered the _______ of multicellular animals
Sessile
Where embryos are free-swimming, adult sponges are_______
Ostia to Spongocoel to Osculum
Path of water through a sponge
Choanocytes
Flagellated collar cells, create water currents by moving flagellum, contain microvilli which take in food and oxygen
Microvilli
Finger like cytoplasmic projections
Archaeocytes
Amoeboid cells that move in the mesohyl
Spicules and Spongin
What are sponges ‘skeleton’ made up of?
Spicules
Microscopic needle-like spikes made of calcium carbonate or silica of variable shape.
Spongin
Collagen (a protein). Mostly seen in commercial bath sponges. (Cuz its softer)
Asconoid, Syconoid, Leuconoid
Three types of sponge canal systems
Asconoid
Water enters through the Ostia and then into spongocoel where choanocytes are located.
Syconoid
Water enters through the Ostia and travels through Ostia lined canals into spongocoel which doesn’t contain choanocytes.
Leuconoid
Water enters through the Ostia and into incurrent canals which leads to chambers filled with choanocytes. Water leaves the chambers and enters into excurrent canals.
Asexually and Sexually
How to sponges reproduce?
Class Calcarea
Shoreline, Spicules made of crystalline calcium carbonate
Class Hexactinellida
AKA Glass Sponges. Occur in deep seas. Has a skeleton of six-rayed silica spicule fused together to form a network that looks like glass.
Class Demospongiae
95% of all sponges. Shapes and colors widely vary. Have spongin or silicate spicules. All are marine except one family of freshwater sponges.
Spongillidae
Family of freshwater sponge
Phylum Placozoa
Only one species in this phylum. Small flat multicellular animals with flagella.
Phylum Cnidaria
Sessile or slow moving organisms of polyps and Medusae. No excretory or respiratory system. Can me mono or dioecious.
Monoecious
Having both male and female gonads in the same organism
Dioecious
Having male and female gonads in separate individuals (hermaphroditic)
Cnidocytes
Specialized cells that produce stinging organelles called nematocysts
Epidermis, Mesoglea, Gastrodermis
Three layers of cnidarian body wall.
Hydrostatic skeleton
The body wall acts upon the water filled gastrovascular cavity to maintain the shape of the cnidarian.
Nerve Net
A diffuse nervous system, impulses moving both ways
Polyps and Medusa
Two forms of cnidarians
Class Hydrozoa
Most are marine, but this phylum contains the only freshwater cnidarians. Most are colonial. Nematocysts found in epidermis. Gametes are released outside of the body. Ameboid cells never in mesoglea. Usually has a velum. Life cycle includes both asexual polyp and sexual Medusa forms.
Velum
A shelf-like membrane on the edge of a bell (projects inward)
Obelia
Marine, colonial hydrozoan. Has hydrants and gonangium (which is where medusae bud). Their medusa form is dioecious.
Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia)
Marine colony, a pneumatophone (a large floating polyp). Drift onto souther beached and are a hazard to beach-goers.
Hydra
Solitary hydrozoans that live in freshwater. Can asexually bud or are sexually dioecious.
Craspedacusta sowerbyi - “Freshwater Jellyfish”
Native to china, introduced to U.S.. Passed from pond to pond on bird’s feet
Class Scyphozoa
All marine “true jellyfish”. Predominant Medusa stage, no velum. Amoeboid cells in the mesoglea. Nematocysts in epidermis AND gastrodermis.
Metazoa
Multicellular animals
Eumetazoans
Animals with at least tissue organization
Symmetry
Balanced proportions or correspondence in size and shape of part on opposite sides of median plane.
Spherical symmetry
Any plane passing through the center divides the body into mirrored halves.
Radial symmetry
Many planes passing through the longitudinal axis can divide the body into two similar halves.
Bilateral Symmetry
Only one plane passing through the longitudinal axis will divide the body into two ‘equal’ halves.
Animal
Organism that feeds on organic material and absence of characteristics that define other kingdoms (photosynthesis, cell walls, etc.)
Zoology
The study of animals
Fertilization
Egg and sperm fuse to form a zygote