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Lecture 2 Porifera & Cnidaria. Phylum Porifera: The sponges.

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1 Lecture 2 Porifera & Cnidaria

2 Phylum Porifera: The sponges

3 Evolutionary relationships  Why or Porifera considered animals rather than Protists?  How do they differ from other animals (3 ways…)?

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5 Sponge structure  Review key parts…  No tissues, organs or body systems!

6 Water movement and feeding [choanocyte, Fig. 33.4]  Role of flagellum  Role of collar  Movement of particles  Phagocytosis

7 Amoebocytes  Move in amoeboid fashion through mesohyle  Secrete spicules and/or spongin  finish digestion  “Garbage-collector cells”  Transport waste to excurrent pore  Can develop into other cell types  Somewhat like stem cells!

8 Protection  Sponges are sessile…  Toxins/warning coloration  Painful or sharp covering (spicules)  Regenerative ability  Camouflage (if not toxic)  Bore into shells.  NOTE: Nudibranch predators co-opt sponge defenses (toxins, spicules)

9 Nudibranch (Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda)

10 Phylum Cnidaria Hydrozoa Scyphozoa Cubozoa Anthozoa

11 Phylum Cnidaria

12 Evolutionary relationships

13 Radiata vs. Bilateria

14 Body organization

15 Key features  Polyps and medusae  Two germ tissue layers (called..?)  Mesoglia  Gastrovascular cavity (functions?)  Nervous system: nerve net  Neurons? Brain? Nerve cords (bundles of axons)?  Tentacles with cnidocytes (stinging cells)

16 Cnidocytes/nematocysts How do they work?

17 Life-history strategies


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