Showing posts with label animal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal. Show all posts

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Animals

All animal cells are eukaryotic. Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophs, cells lack cell walls.
-Invertabrates
-Vertebrates
-All animals have nervous and muscle tissue, but sponges.
-Reproduce sexually.
-Made up of 35 phyla
Fish, amphians, reptiles, birds, mammals.

-Origin is colonial, flagellated protest
-2 models used to distinguish possible phylogenetic orgins.
-Body plan grades
-Sequencing of rRNA= ribosomal RNA

Category, percentage, description, ex.
invertebrate, 95%, without backbone, worms.
vertebrate, 5%, with backbone, mammals.

Animal functions:
Feeding, respiration, circulation- blood contains urine, excretion- kidney and bladder,
movement- skeletal system, reproduction, responce.

Urea- waste product
Parasite and host- one benefits, and the other loses (sybiotic).

Types of feeders
-herbivore- feed on plants
-omnivore- meat and plants
-carnivore- feed on animals (meat)
-filter feeder- strains tiny floating animals and plants
-detritivores- eat decaying plants and animals

~cephalization- you have a head distinctly seperate from body.
~coelom- cavity
~platyhelmines- flatworm

~dicotomys key
~nemotoda- roundworms
~blastula- hollow ball of cells

~parazoa (means beside the animals)
~No true tissue but not colonial