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Echinodermata, Arthropoda, Mollusca
lecture and some lab flashcards sea star cucumber crabs squid etc
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
11/29/2012

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What are the oldest echinoderms?
Definition
Crinioids
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which side is up in crinoids?
Definition
oral
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What are tube feet modified for in crinoids?
Definition
FILTER FEEDING
Term
how do crinoids hold to rocks?
Definition
cirri
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what are some common names of crinoids?
Definition
sea lilies, feather stars. these are ansectral to sea stars.
Term
What type of symmetry do most echinoderms have?
Definition
pentaradial
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Echinoderms are most closely related to whom?
Definition
chordates.
Term
how are echinoderms related to chordates?
Definition
deuterostomes
radial cleavage-indeterminate development
gill slits present in larval form(bilateral)
enterocoely
Term
What is the common name for ophithuroidea?
Definition
brittle stars
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what is the class of brittle stars?
Definition
ophithuroidea
Term
what are overlapping pieces of exoskeloton called?
Definition
ossicles or "vertebra"
Term
what are ossicles?
Definition
endoskeleton of echins
Term
what is the common name of holothuroidea?
Definition
Sea Cucumber
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what is the class of sea cucumbers?
Definition
holothuroidea
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What is the symmetry of the sea cucumber?
Definition
still penaradial but secondarily bilateral
Term
do sea cucumbers have a hard skeleton?
Definition
no. very soft. ossicles scattered through out.
Term
what is respiratory structure in sea cucumber(holothuroidea)?
Definition
respiratory tree. butt breathing.
Term
what assists in respiration for cucumber?
Definition
muscles in anus
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what is the functions of body cavities in echinos?
Definition
circulation,
skeleton/move
excretion
reproduction(broadcast spawn)
space to grow/move.
Term
what is a tripartate coelum?
Definition
3 cavities formed during embryo
general for circulation
water vascular unique to echi's
perihemal - distribution of nutrients
Term
what is the water vascular system used for?
Definition
circulation, movement, gas exchange.
Term
how many skeletons in echino's?
Definition
2
hard for protection
hydrostatic-water vascular system
Term
what is class echinoidea?
Definition
sea urchins, sand dollars
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what is the class of sea urchins/sand dollars?
Definition
echinoidea
Term
what is unique to echnoidea(urchins etc)
Definition
ambulacral regions extend to aboral side(not ventral)
Term
what are pedicellariae?
Definition
clean off themsleves in echino's(stars/urchins)
Term
who has aristotles lantern and what is it?
Definition
class echinoidea(urchins,$)
specialized mouth parts for scraping/eating algae and kelp
Term
who has poisonous pedicellariae sometimes?
Definition
sea urchins/$ echinoidea
Term
what is the respiration in urchins echinoidea?
Definition
tube feet sticking out all around. for gas exchange.
Term
are urchins, echinoidea, secondarily bilateral too?
Definition
yes.
Term
what kind of repiration/circulation in echinoderms?
Definition
get oxygen out of water by countercurrent system
Term
describe countercurrent in echino's
Definition
picks up O2 from water flowing past.
flows past general coelum for drop off.
Term
what is common name for asteroidea?
Definition
sea star
Term
what is sea star class?
Definition
asteroidea
Term
what does only asteroidea haveZ? and what it does?
Definition
catch collagen between ossicles that they can use to change from liquid to solid in order to pry open mussels etc.
Term
what do sea stars do with their cardiac stomach?
Definition
evert stomach outside to release enzymes and digest soft parts of prey
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how many parts of sea star do you need for regeneration?
Definition
only one. regenerates completely.
Term
what do pedicillariae do?
Definition
clean surface of animals , echino's
Term
what is endoskeloton made of in sea stars?
Definition
CaCo3
Term
another name for endoskeleton?
Definition
test
Term
what can you have between ossicles(hard skeleton)
Definition
dermal branchia for gas exchange.
Term
where is radial canal found on sea stars?
Definition
in ambulacral groove.
Term
how does hydrostatic skeleton work?
Definition
muscles push on fluid,notbones.
longitudinal muscles shorten tube foot--fluid goes back to ampullae.
Term
can sea stars "see"
Definition
yes eyes spots on each end of arm
Term
what is another way to describe sand $?
Definition
flat sea urchin
Term
what are the fastest moving echinoderms?
Definition
brittle stars ophiuroidea
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where are gonads located in sea star?
Definition
below pyloric caecae in arms.
Term
where are the tentacle retractor muscles on a cucumber?
Definition
attach inside tentcles and to body wall
Term
where are the tentacle retractor muscles on a cucumber?
Definition
attach inside tentcles and to body wall
Term
what is and where is polian vessicle?
Definition
attached to ring canal in cucumber near mouth.
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