advantage of not having cell wall
how many phyla do we have
36
diversified after cambrian explossion
potential causes
what caused diversification during cambriange explosion (3)
2 groups of animals
vertebrates and invertebrates
what percentage of animals are invertebrates
more than 95%
which phylum do humans come from
chrodate
traits that differentiates animals
Animals ingest their food, lack cell walls and their sperms and eggs are produced directly through meiosis, not mitosis. Plants make spores, for example, that then divide and make gametes.
Animals are ___ that ___ their food
Animals are heterotrophs that ingest their food
Animals are ___ eukaryotes.
multicellular
eukaryotic cells are supported and connected to one another by ___ and other structural proteins located ___ the cell membrane
collagen
outside
2 key animal features?
nervous tissue and muscle tissue
In most animals, ___ follows the formation of the ___ and leads to the formation of ___ tissue layers
In most animals, gastrulation follows the formation of the blastula and leads to the formation of embryonic tissue layers
All animals except ___ have ___ genes
All animals except sponges have Hox genes
what are hox genes
regulate the development of body form
oldest known fossils of multicellular eukaryotes
small red algae
Ediacaran period
rise of larger eukaryotes, mostly soft-bodied, set the stage for the cambrian explosion
Prior to the Cambrian explosion, all large animals were:
soft-bodied
there was little ___ before the cambrian explosion
predation
what happenned to preys and predators AFTER the cambrian explosion?
sponges ___ from animals
diverged
first animals to colonize land
arthropods
what did the earliest tetrapods come from
earliest tetrapods found in the fossil record appear to have evolved from a group of lobe-finned fishes
tetrapods include:
humans
animals ___ their food and then use ___ to digest it within their bodies.
animals ingest their food and then use enzymes to digest it within their bodies.