Are animals station or can they move?
Some animals are station but are able to move at some time in their life
All animals expect sponges have…
neurons and muscles
Why are scientists racing against time because of extinction?
Better idea to characterize species before extinct to give us better idea of extinction rate
What did animals evolve from and when?
What are choanoflagellates?
single-celled organisms that sometimes form colonies
When did first fossils of sponges appear?
700 mya
What is believed to be true about sponges evolving?
believed sponges were first animal to evolve
Why can it be messy trying to sort out animal evolution?
When did key innovations for animals arise
Speratic not all at once
What is a key innovation (definition)
Are key innovations, synapmorphies?
key innovations that helped animals evolve
multicellularity
deep tissue formation
morphological symmetry
unicellularity protist
everything protist needs to survive is in one cell
colonial flagellate hypothesis
what is tissue?
layers of cells that are all made up of same type of cell
who has different tissues and when do they have them?
Animals can have different tissues during development
During development there are 3 different types of tissues animals can have
ectoderm
gives rise to skin and nervous system
endoderm
inside skin gives rise to lining of digestive tract
mesoderm
gives rise to the circulatory system, muscle, and internal structures such as bone and most organs
diploblasts
animals with 2 developmental tissues