Q1. What are the characteristics of animals?
Q2. Describe IN DETAIL the five key innovations in animal evolution
Q3. What percent of animals do vertebrates make up?
Q4. View the phylogenetic hypothesis for animals from your notes. Know the branch points of that phylogeny.
Q5. For Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Annelida, Rotifera, Mollusca, Nematoda, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, and Chordata know information about their tissues (present or absent), symmetry, number and types of germ layers, whether they have organs or not, whether they are protostomes or deuterostomes, and if they are protostomes whether they are lophotrochozoans and ecdysozoans.
Q6. Describe the body of a sponge include the anatomy and functions of cells and other structures.
Q7. Know the two body types of cnidarians. Also know about the Classes Scyphozoa and Anthozoa.
Q8. What are cnidocytes and nematocysts, who has them, and what are they for?
Q9. What are the general features of Flatworms? Pick two parasitic flatworms know their name and the disease they cause.
Q10. Know the general features of Rotifers.
Q11. Know the general characteristics of mollusks. Pick two of taxa (e.g., Gastropods) and know their characteristics.
Q12. Why are mollusks important (good and bad)?
Q13. Describe the general characteristics of annelids and know the evolutionary trends associated with them.
Q14. What are the general features of Nematodes? Are all nematodes parasitic?
Q15. Look up the parasitic nematodes that are in the text and be able to briefly describe a medical condition associated with one of them
Q16. What are the general characteristics of arthropods?
Q17. Describe in detail the chelicerates, crustaceans, and insects.
Q18. Why are arthropods so important?
Q19. List the phylum names and common names of the animals with lophophores.