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Protostomes
Vocab Words for Chapter 29 and 30 Solomon and Berg Biology Textbook
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Biology
11th Grade
05/03/2010

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Blastula
Definition
Hollow ball of cells that the animal zygote develops into.
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Gastrulation
Definition
Process of forming and segregatin specific layers of tissue
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Larva
Definition
A sexually immature form that may look very different from the adult
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Opisthokonts
Definition
Choanoflagellates, fungi, and animals
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Parazoa
Definition
Clade that only includes sponges, characterized by no true tissues
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Eumatozoa
Definition
Animals that have true tissues (anything but sponges).
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Radial symmetry
Definition
Body has the general form of a wheel or a cylinder, and similar structures are regularly arranged as spokes to form a central axis. Includes jellies, sea anemones, sea stars, etc.
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Biradial symmetry
Definition
Parts of the body have become specialized so that only two planes can divide the body into similar halves
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Bilateral symmetry
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Can be divided through only one plane to produce roughly equivalent right and left halves that are mirror images
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Cephalization
Definition
Development of a head where sensory structures are concentrated
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Dorsal
Definition
Back surface of an animal
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Ventral
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Underside of an animal
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Anterior
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Toward the head of an animal
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Posterior
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Toward the tail end of an animal
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Medial
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Located toward teh midline of the body
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Lateral
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Toward one side of the body
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Superior
Definition
Structure located above some point of reference
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Inferior
Definition
Structure located below some point of reference
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Sagittal plane
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Divides the body into right and left parts
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Frontal plane
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Divides the body into dorsal and ventral parts
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Transverse section
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Cuts at right angles to the body axis and separates anterior and posterior parts
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Diploblastic
Definition
Two tissue layers
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Germ layers
Definition
Embryonic tissue
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Ectoderm
Definition
Outer germ layer, gives rise to outer covering of the body and to nervous tissue
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Endoderm
Definition
Inner germ layer, forms lining of the digestive tube and otehr digestive structures
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Triploblastic
Definition
Three tissue layers
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Mesoderm
Definition
Gives rise to most other body structures, including muscles, skeletal structures, and circulatory system (when present)
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Coelom
Definition
A fluid-filled space between the body wall and the digestive tube
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Acoelomate
Definition
No body cavity, solid body
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Coelomate
Definition
Have a true coelom, "tube within a tube" body plan, coelom is attached to outer lining by mesoderm
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Pseudocoelomate
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Have a coelom, not connected with mesoderm
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Protostomes
Definition
Have spiral cleavage, fate of each embryonic cell determined, include mollusks, annelids, and arthropods
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Deuterostomes
Definition
Have radial cleavage, fate of each embryonic cell undetermined
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Spiral cleavage
Definition
Early cell divisions are diagonal to the polar axis, resulting in a spiral shape
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Radial cleavage
Definition
Early cell divisions are either parallel or at right angles to the polar axis
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Determinate
Definition
Each embryonic cell has a determined fate
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Indeterminate
Definition
Each embryonic cell has an undetermined fate
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Blastopore
Definition
Opening to the outside formed during gastrulation. Protostomes use it ot make a mouth, deuterostomes use it to make an anus
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Schizocoely
Definition
Mesoderm splits to form coelom (protostomes)
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Enterocoely
Definition
Mesoderm forms "outpocketings" and pinch off to make pouches to form the coelom (deuterostomes)
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Placozoans
Definition
Small marine animals
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Porifera
Definition
Phylum including sponges
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Collar cells (choanocytes)
Definition
Flagellate cells on sponges
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Spongocoel
Definition
Central cavity of sponge, not a digestive cavity
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Osculum
Definition
A sponge's open end
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Porocytes
Definition
Specialized tubelike cells in sponges that form pores
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Spicules
Definition
Slender skeletal spikes in sponges that support the sponge body
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Cnidaria
Definition
Radially symmetrical marine organisms made up of a hollow sac with the mouth and tentacles located at one end
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Hydrozoa
Definition
Class that includes hydras and Portuguese man-of-wars
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Scyphozoa
Definition
Class that includes jellyfish
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Anthozoa
Definition
Class that includes sea anemones and corals
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Cnidocytes
Definition
Cells with stinging organelles
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Nematocysts
Definition
Stinging thread capsules within the cnidocytes
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Gastrovacular cavity
Definition
Where cnidarians digest food
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Mesoglea
Definition
Gelatinous flesh layer between epidermis and gastrodermis in cnidarians
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Hydrostatic skeleton
Definition
Contractile cells of epidermis and gastrodermis act on the water-filled gastrovacular cavity to form the hydrostatic skeleton, which allows them to move
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Planula
Definition
Small, ciliated larva produced by anemones and corals
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Ctenophora
Definition
Phylum including comb jellies
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Lophotrochozoa
Definition
Clade including platyhelminthes, nemerteans, mollusks, annelids, the lophophorate phylum and rotifers
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Platyhelminthes
Definition
Phylum including flatworms: flat, elongated, acoelomate animals that are bilaterally symmetrical
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Trematodes and monogenea
Definition
Classes that include flukes
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Cestoda
Definition
Class that includes tapeworms
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Protonephridia
Definition
Structures that function in osmoregulation and metabolic waste disposal in planarians
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Planarians
Definition
Turbellarian flatwomrs found in ponds and streams
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Auricles
Definition
Planarian "ears" which serve as organs of chemoreception, important in locating food
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Pharynx
Definition
The first portion of the planarian digestive tube
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Flame bulb
Definition
Collecting cells equipped with cilia, found at the end of protonephridia. The cilia beat to channel waste out of the body.
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Scolex
Definition
The "head" of a tapeworm
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Proglotids
Definition
Segments that form the body of a tapeworm
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Nermetea
Definition
Phylum that includes ribbon worms
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Proboscis
Definition
Long, hollow muscular tube that can be rapidly everted from the body. The proboscis wraps around prey and sometimes can secrete toxic fluids. Ribbon worms have these.
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Rhynchocoel
Definition
The chamber surrounding the proboscis in ribbonworms
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Mollusca
Definition
The phylum that includes clams, oysters, snails, slugs, octopods, and the giant squid
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Visceral mass
Definition
Body organs concentrated above the foot of a mollusk
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Mantle
Definition
Thin sheet of tissue that covers the visceral mass of mollusks and usually contains glands that secrete a shell
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Radula
Definition
Belt o teeth in the mouth region of mollusks
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Hemocoel
Definition
The main body cavity of mollusks, containing blood
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Open circulatory system
Definition
The hemolymph of mollusks baths the tissuse directly
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Closed circulatory system
Definition
Blood flows through a complete circuit of blood vessels, squuid and octopods have this
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Trochophore larva
Definition
Free-swimming, top-shaped larva with two bands of cilia around its middle. This is the larval stage of mollusks.
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Veliger larva
Definition
Trochophore larva turn into this. Veliger larvae have a shell, foot, and mantle. Only mollusks can have veliger larvae.
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Polyplacophora
Definition
Class that consists of chitons
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Gastropods
Definition
Class that includes snails, slugs, and their relatives
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Pulmonate
Definition
Land snails that have lungs
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Torsion
Definition
Twisting of the visceral mass, a unique feature of the gastropod
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Bivalvia
Definition
Class including clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, and their relatives
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Incurrent syphon
Definition
Extension of a bivalve's mantle that takes water in
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Excurrent siphon
Definition
Extension of a bivalve's mantle that pushes water out
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Cephalopoda
Definition
Class of animals including octopods and the nautilus
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Annelida
Definition
Phylum including segmented worms
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Setae
Definition
Bristle-like structures located on each segment of womrs that provide traction as they move
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Polychaeta
Definition
Class that includes marine worms that swim freely in the sea, burrow in the mud near the shore, or live in tubes they secrete or make by cementing bits of shell and sand together with mucus
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Parapodia
Definition
Paddle-shaped appendages on each segment of polychaetes
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Oligochaeta
Definition
Class that includes earthworms
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Hirudinea
Definition
Class that includes leeches
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Lophophore
Definition
A ciliated ring of tentacles that surrounds the mouth, specialized for capturing suspended particles in the water
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Rotifera
Definition
Multicellular aquatic invertebrates with crown of cilia on their anterior end
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Ecdysozoa
Definition
Clade including nematodes and arthropods
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Ecdysis (molting)
Definition
Characteristic of ecydosozoans, the shedding of the cuticle
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Nematodes
Definition
Phylum including roundworms
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Arthropoda
Definition
Phylum including insects, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, scorpions, spiders, and horseshoe crabs
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Book lungs
Definition
"Lungs" of terrestrial arthropods
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Ommatidia
Definition
Light sensitive units that make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans
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Myriapoda
Definition
Subphylum including centipedes and millipedes
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Chilopoda
Definition
Class including centipedes
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Diplopoda
Definition
Class including millipedes
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Chelicerae
Definition
First pair of appendages located directly anterior to the mouth
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Statocysts
Definition
Sense organs in crustaceans that detect gravity
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Carapace
Definition
The shield made of chitin and calcium salts that makes up the top and sides of crustaceans
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Spiracles
Definition
Tiny openings in the body walls of insects that allows air into the tracheal tubes
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Malphigian tubules
Definition
Recieve metabolic waste from the blood and discharge them into the intestine. Insects have these.
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Instars
Definition
Immature stages between insect molts
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