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Plathelminthes
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
03/15/2013

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Term
Lophotrochozoans are what kind of taxonomic category?
Definition
Group within a sub-kingdom.
Term
What sub-kingdom is lopotrochozaons within?
Definition
Eumetazoa
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Plathelminthes is what kind of taxonomic category?
Definition
Phylum
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How many tissue layers do plathelminthes have?
Definition
three
Term
How are plathelminthes characterized by body cavity?
Definition
The ONLY Aceolomates
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How are plathelminthes commonly known?
Definition
Flatworms
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How are plathelminthes characterized by their embryonic development?
Definition
Protosome
Term
What does the opening in the gastrula stage become in plathelminthes?
Definition
The mouth
Term
What kind of environment do plathelminthes live in?
Definition
Marine, freshwater, damp habitat.
Term
How many openings do most plathelminthes have?
Definition
One
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True or false: Plathelminthes have a gastrovascular cavity
Definition
True
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How do plathelminthes live?
Definition
Freely or parasitically.
Term
What do some plathelminthes require for their life cycles
Definition
Multiple hosts
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How do plathelminthes exchange waste and gas?
Definition
Diffusion across body surface
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What are the classes of plathelminthes?
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Turbellaria, Trematoda, Cestoda
Term
What kind of flatworms belong to the Turbellaria class?
Definition
Free living flatworms
Term
How do turbellaria plathelminthes see?
Definition
With light sensitive eye spots
Term
Auricles
Definition
Projections on head that sense chemicals
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Ganglia
Definition
Simple "brain" that is a pair of nerve cords
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How do turbellaria plathelminthes move?
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With muscles and cilia on ventral surface
Term
How do turbellaria plathelminthes reproduce?
Definition
Sexually or asexually.
Term
How can turbellaria characterized by how they reproduce?
Definition
Hermaphrodites.
Term
What kind of flatworms are class trematoda?
Definition
Parasitic flatworms
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What are the problems that the trematoda plathelminthes encounter in their host?
Definition
The host's immune system and digestion.
Term
How do trematoda plathelminthes combat the immune system and digestion of its host?
Definition
It produces proteins and polysaccharides that protect against it.
Term
What is most of the interior of trematoda plathelminthes occupied by?
Definition
Reproductive organs.
Term
What kind of flatworms are within class cestoda?
Definition
Parasitic flat worms
Term
What is an example of a trematoda plathelminthes?
Definition
Fluke
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What is an example of a turbellaria plathelminthes?
Definition
Planaria
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What is an example of a cestoda plathelminthes?
Definition
Tapeworm
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What is the digestive tract of cestoda plathelminthes like?
Definition
Trick question - they have no digestive tract.
Term
How do cestoda plathelminthes get their nutrients?
Definition
They absorb nutrients from host across body surface (diffusion)
Term
With what structure do cestoda plathelminthes reproduce?
Definition
Proglottids
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Proglottids
Definition
Reproductive structures with both male and female parts.
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How do mature eggs leave the host species in cestoda plathelminthes?
Definition
Through the feces.
Term
What structure does cestoda plathelminthes use parasitically?
Definition
Scolex
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Scolex
Definition
Anterior hooks and suckers.
Term
Which class contains planaria?
Definition
Turbellaria
Term
Which class contains free living worms?
Definition
Turbellaria
Term
Which class contains light-sensative eye spots?
Definition
Turberllaria
Term
Which class contains auricles?
Definition
Turbellaria
Term
Which class contains ganglia?
Definition
Turbellaria
Term
Which class moves with muscles and cilia on ventral surface?
Definition
Turbellaria
Term
Which class are hermaphrodites?
Definition
Turbellaria
Term
Which classes have parasitic flat worms?
Definition
Cestoda and Trematoda
Term
Which class contains flukes
Definition
Trematoda
Term
Which class produces proteins and polysaccharides to protect against digestion and host immune system?
Definition
Trematoda
Term
Which class has most of its interior occupied by reproductive organs?
Definition
Trematoda
Term
Which class contains tapeworms?
Definition
Cestoda
Term
Which class has no digestive tract?
Definition
Cestoda
Term
Which class absorbs nutrients by diffusion from host?
Definition
Cestoda
Term
Which class contains scolex?
Definition
Cestoda
Term
Which class contains proglottids
Definition
Cestoda
Term
Which class contains reproductive structures with both male and female parts?
Definition
Cestoda
Term
Which class contains anterior hooks and suckers?
Definition
Cestoda
Term
Which class has eggs that leave with host feces.
Definition
Cestoda
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