Phylum

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Classification information for Poriferans: Poriferans, better known as sponges, consist of 5000 known species, all located primarily in marine and fresh waters (Myers, 2001a). They are multicellular, heterotrophic, invertebrates with an irregular shape and no distinct pattern of symmetry (Myers, 2001a). Overall, they are the simplest of animals; thus, lacking any true tissue and/or germ layers (Myers, 2001a). Furthermore, they are known to be highly sessile, and feed by collecting bacteria from the water that streams through their porous bodies (Myers, 2001a). Feeding is known to be distinct, as their flagellated cells called choanocytes, trap bacteria in mucus, which allows them to then engulf the food…

Biologists have been faced with a difficult task that consists of determining the phylogenetic position of the perplexing phyla known as Chaetognatha. The phyla Chaetognatha are well known bilateral symmetrical metazoans that are small in size. Their relationship to the metazoan community has been strongly disputed due to their embryological and morphological structures that are related to the two main branches of Bilateria: protostomes and deuterostomes. The Chaetognatha phyla have not been…

Your name: Matthew King Date: October 16, 2015 Your section: 001 1. Complete Classification: (ITIS: 2014 ) Common Name: Two-toed Amphiuma Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Caudata Family: Amphiumidae Genus: Amphiuma Species (G. s.e.): Amphiuma means Species information 2a. Description and identification Family: The family Amphiumidae consists of three separate species of “eel” like animals separated by the number of toes that are present on the animal.…

Cervus canadensis Domain - Eukaryote Kingdom- Animalia Phylum - Chordata Class - Mammalia Order - Artiodactyla (“even” - “number of toes”) Family - Cervidae Genus - Cervus Species- canadensis Cervus canadensis (Elk) is one of the largest species within the Cervidae family (deer), and is also considered one of the largest land mammals in North America and Eastern Asia based upon mass and size. The word “Elk” comes from two languages: Old…

My order is Perissodactyla, which is also known as odd toed ungulates. The order Perissodactyla consists of the animals’ horses rhinoceros, zebras, tapirs, and donkeys. The name of their order comes from the fact that they have a larger middle toe. Most species have three digits on the hindfoot, three or four on the front feet but, some only a single digit. Some species have horns, but these are relating to the skin without bony cores, located on the nasals or frontline in the midline of the…

The notochord is the defining structure of the chordates, and has essential roles in vertebrate development. It is a flexible, rod-shaped structure that is in the embryonic stage of all chordates. It gives the skeletal support and is found in between the digestive tube and nerve cord. In some animal chordates lifetimes it is the main axial support in the body. The dorsal hollow nerve cord is the only feature unique to all chordates. It is located at the top of the animal, above the notochord.…

The phylum chordate is one of the first phylum’s everybody learns in school. This is because it includes the human species and a lot of other animals that we know, in which they all have a spine aka vertebrate. All animals in the chordate have similar characteristics, sometime through their life cycle, this can include when they are an embryo. All of this phylum have pharayneal slits which are a series of opening that connect the outside of their neck with the inside of their throat, these are…

INTRODUCTION The experiment studied mushrooms, which are members of the phylum Basidiomycota and the kingdom Fungi. The study tested three types of mushrooms: Agaricus bisporus commonly known as the button mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus or the oyster mushroom, and Tricholoma magnivelare or the shiitake mushroom. The three types of mushrooms decompose different forms of organic matter and occupy different habitats. The oyster mushrooms live on tree roots and decompose dying hardwood trees; the…

Learning Journal Unit 6 – Introduction to Biology University of the People Author: Murray Ball - Thursday, December, 22nd, 2016 Featured Characteristics of the Common Snapping Turtles Phylum In your assigned readings, you were introduced to the major animal phyla. Choose an animal which represents a particular phylum. Briefly describe its features characteristic of its phylum including morphology, embryology, and physiology. Identify adaptations of your animal compared with other animals. If…

Animals in the phylum Platyhelminthes, widely known as flatworms, were the first to develop bilateral symmetry, triploblasty, and cephalization. Bilateral symmetry means that an animal's left and right side of their body are mirror images of each other. Cephalization is the development of nervous tissues becoming concentrated towards the anterior end of an animal. Triploblasty means that an organism has three tissue layers, an ectoderm (outer layer), mesoderm (middle layer), and an endoderm…