Sunday, March 18, 2007
Mullosca
Annelida
Annelids are the segmented worms, their body is divided into many segments which affects many of their basic functions.
probably the most common annelid is the earthworm, found almost everywhere on land. Annelids have bilateral symmetry, and two body openings. Annelids can live on land or in water. The circulatory and nervous system work together in annelids the blood is carried in a blood vessel and conected to the nervous system. Annelids can reproduce by regenerating pieces of themselves that break off into new worms, or they can reproduce sexually either with seperate sexes or hermaphroditicly, both worms have both male and female organs, and both become fertilized.
Nematoda
platyhelminthes
Cnidaria
Cnidarians are animals with radial symmetry and live in water.
Some of these animals move, some do not. Cnidarians are some of the simplest
organisms found in the water.Cnidarians include animals such as sea anemones (that's what nemo lived in), jellyfish, and coral.
cnidarians have radial symmetry, they have more than one line where they can be divided into two equal halves, like the pie shown below.Cnidarians have one body opening, the gastrovascular cavity, is used a cnidarians as both a mouth and an anus. Like many simpler organisms, cnidarians do not have a circulatory system or respiratory, instead they exchange
organisms found in the water.Cnidarians include animals such as sea anemones (that's what nemo lived in), jellyfish, and coral.cnidarians have radial symmetry, they have more than one line where they can be divided into two equal halves, like the pie shown below.Cnidarians have one body opening, the gastrovascular cavity, is used a cnidarians as both a mouth and an anus. Like many simpler organisms, cnidarians do not have a circulatory system or respiratory, instead they exchange
gasses by diffusion.
Cnidarians have a netlike nervous system, with nerves all around the mouth and branching to the rest of the organism. Cnidarians reproduce asexually by budding, and sexually when the male sperm and the female egg are released into the water and unite to become a fertilized zygote.
Porifera
Porifera is a phylum of invertebrates containing sponges. Sponges are the simplest as well as the oldest of all of the invertebrates.Sponges have no symmetry, in other words, there is no line that can be drawn on a sponge to divide it into two mirrored halves. Sponges do not have body openings, instead they have pores that function for obtaining nutrients and they use water to propel waste away from them. Sponges reproduce asexually by budding, and sexually bu releasing sperm and eggs into the water and having the eggs get fertilized. When budding occurs, a smaller sponge begins to grow on the parent sponge. Sponge also have a great abilito to regenerate, if a piece of a sponge breaks off it can become a new sponge. Sponges do not have a true circulatory system, instead they filter water through their bodies and obtain oxygen by diffusion, the movement of some form of matter from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration.
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