Chapter 26: Sponges and Cnidarians
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What makes animals different
from the previous organisms we
have covered so far this year?
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The Animal Kingdom
• Multicellular
• Eukaryotic
• Heterotrophs
• Cells lack
cell walls
• 95% are
invertebrates
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What Animals Do to Survive
• Feeding
• Response
• Respiration
• Movement
• Circulation
• Reproduction
• Excretion
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1. Feeding
• Modes of ingestion of nutrients
Carnivores
Detrivores
Herbivores
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2. Respiration
• Taking in oxygen, releasing carbon dioxide
Lungs
Gills
Skin
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3. Circulation
• Movement of materials in the body
Heart Pump
Diffusion
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4. Excretion
• Removal of nitrogen waste out of body to
maintain homeostasis
Diffusion
Kidney
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5. Response
• Responding to outside stimuli using nerve cells
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6. Movement
• Attached to a single spot or motile
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7. Reproduction
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Trends in Animal Evolution
Though there are differences in whether an
animal has a backbone or not, there are
some common trends:
1. Cell Specialization
2. Body Symmetry
3. Cephalization
4. Body Cavity Formation
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1. Cell Specialization
• Animal cells have evolved to carry out
specific functions:
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1. Cell Specialization
•
Reasons why cell specialization is
important:
•
Allows for animals to perform many different
functions
•
Causes a greater efficiency in survival
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Early Embryonic Development
•
Animals that reproduce sexually begin life
after fertilization as a zygote (fertilized egg)
•
Zygote undergoes a series of divisions
•
Blastula forms (simple ball of cells)
•
Blastula fold in on itself forming blastopore
•
Blastopore leads into a central tube
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Early Embryonic Development
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Protostome Animals
mouth forms from
blastopore
(most invertebrates)
Deuterostome Animals
anus forms from
blastopore
(echinoderms and
vertebrates
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Early Embryonic Development
Cells differentiate into 3 germ layers
•
Endoderm
inner
•
Mesoderm
middle
•
Ectoderm
outer
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Early Embryonic Development
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2. Body Symmetry
• Ability to divide a body into 2 equal halves
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2. Body Symmetry
• Planes of symmetry: Dorsovental Axis
(Sagittal Plane)
• Cuts the body
into right and left
sides
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2. Body Symmetry
• Planes of symmetry: Transverse Axis
•Produces a “crosssection” of the body
• Divides the body
into “Anterior” and
“Posterior” regions
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2. Body Symmetry
• Regions of the body:
Dorsal:
Upper
Posterior:
Rear End
Anterior:
Front
Ventral:
Lower
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Trends of Evolution
There are two more characteristics that most
animals share in addition to “Cell
Specialization” and “Body Symmetry”
3. Cephalization
4. Body Cavity Formation
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3. Cephalization
Refers to the
characteristic that
more sense organs and
nerve cells are located
at the anterior part of
the body than
anywhere else
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3. Cephalization
Allows animals to
respond quicker and in
more complex ways to
stimuli
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4. Body Cavity Formation
Body cavity is a fluidfilled space that
contains the organs
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4. Body Cavity Formation
This allows space for
internal organs to keep
their shape and to
grow properly
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Evolutionary Relationships
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Sponges
• Phylum Porifera
• Have tiny openings, or pores,
over their bodies
• Sessile: they live their entire life
attached to a single spot
• They are animals. Why…?
all
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Sponges are Animals
• Multicellular
• Heterotrophic
• No cell walls
• Contain a few
specialized cells
Click Picture To Watch a 3 Minute
Sponge From and Function Video
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Form and Function in Sponges
• Have nothing resembling a
mouth or gut
• Have no tissues or organ
systems
• Simple functions are carried
out by a few specialized cells
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Asymmetrical
• Have no front or back ends,
no left and right sides
• A large, cylindrical water
pump
• The body forms a wall
around a large central cavity
through which water flows
continually
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Specialized Cells
• Choanocytes
– Specialized cells that use flagella to move a
steady current of water through the sponge
• Osculum
– Water leaves through the large
hole at the top of the sponge
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Choanocytes
• Specialized cells that
use flagella to move a
steady current of water
through the sponge
• Filters several thousand
liters/day
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Osculum
• A large hole at the top of
the sponge, through which
water exits
• The movement of water
provides a simple
mechanism for feeding,
respiration, circulation and
excretion
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• spicule
Specialized Cells
– is a spike-shaped structure made of chalklike
calcium carbonate or glasslike silica
• archaeocytes
– are specialized cells that move around within
the walls of the sponge and make spicules.
• spongin
– network of flexible protein fibers that make up
the internal skeleton of a sponge.
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Simple Skeleton
• Spicule: a spike-shaped
structure made of
chalk-like calcium
carbonate or glasslike
silica in hard sponges
• Archaeocytes:
specialized cells that
make spicules
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Sponge Feeding
• Filter feeders
Click Picture To Watch a 5 Minute
Sponge Filter Feeding Video
• Sift microscopic
food from the water
• Particles are engulfed by
choanocytes that line the body cavity
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Respiration, Circulation, & Excretion
• Rely on the movement of water through their bodies
to carry out body functions
• As water moves through the cavity:
• Oxygen dissolved in the water diffuses into the
surrounding cells
• Carbon dioxide and other wastes, diffuse into the
water and are carried away
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Response
• No nervous system
• Many sponges protect
themselves by producing
toxins that make them
unpalatable or poisonous
to potential predators
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Reproduction
Click Picture To Watch A 2 Minute
Sponge Reproduction Video
• Sexually or asexually
• A single spore forms
both eggs and sperm;
usually at different
times
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Sexual Reproduction
• Internal fertilization:
Eggs are fertilized inside
the sponge’s body
• Sperm are released from
one sponge and carried
by currents to the pores
of another sponge
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Asexual Reproduction
• Budding
• Gemmules: groups of
archaeocytes surrounded
by spicules
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Ecology of Sponges
• Ideal habitats for marine animals such as snails,
sea stars, sea cucumbers, and shrimp
• Mutually beneficial relationships with bacteria,
algae and plant-like protists
– Many are green due to these organisms living in
their tissues
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Ecology of Sponges
• Attached to the seafloor and may receive
little sunlight
• Some have spicules that look like crossshaped antennae
• Like a lens or magnifying glass, they focus
and direct incoming sunlight
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Cnidarians
• Phylum Cnidaria
• Hydras, jellies,
sea anemones, and corals
• Soft-bodied
• Carnivorous
• Stinging tentacles arranged in circles around their mouths
• Simplest animals to have body symmetry and specialized cells
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Cnidocytes
• Stinging cells that
are located on their
tentacles
• Used for defense
and to capture prey
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Nematocyst
• A poison-filled, stinging
structure that contains a
tightly coiled dart
• Found within cnidocytes
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Click Picture To Watch a 2 Minute Feeding Anemone Video
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Click Picture To Watch a 3 Minute Stinging Jellyfish Video
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Form and Function in Cnidarians
• Only a few cells thick
• Simple body systems
• Most of their responses to the environment
are carried out by specialized cells and
tissues
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Radially Symmetrical
• Central mouth
surrounded by
numerous tentacles
that extend outward
from the body
• Life cycles includes
a polyp and a
medusa stage
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Body Plan
• Polyp: cylindrical
body with arm-like
tentacles; mouth
points upward
• Medusa: motile, bellshaped body; mouth
on the bottom
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Phylum Cnidarian
Epidermis
Mesoglea
Gastroderm
Tentacles
Mesoglea
Gastrovascular cavity
Mouth/anus
Mouth/anus
Gastrovascular
cavity
Tentacles
Medusa
Polyp
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Feeding
• Polyps and medusas have a body wall that
surrounds an internal space: the
gastrovascular cavity
• Gastrovascular cavity: a digestive chamber
with one opening
– Food enters and wastes leave the body
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Respiration, Circulation, & Excretion
• Following digestion, nutrients are usually
transported throughout the body by
diffusion
• Respire and
eliminate wastes
by diffusion
through body walls
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Response
• Specialized sensory cells are used to gather
information from the environment
• Nerve net: loosely organized network of nerve cells
that together allow cnidarians to detect stimuli
– Distributed uniformly throughout the body in most species
– In some species it is concentrated around the mouth or in
rings around the body
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Response
• Statocysts: groups of
sensory cells that help
determine the direction
of gravity
• Ocelli: eyespots made
of cells that detect light
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Movement
• Hydrostatic skeleton: a layer of circular
muscles and a layer of longitudinal muscles
that enable cnidarians to move
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Reproduction: Sexually and Asexually
• Polyps can reproduce asexually by budding
• External sexual reproduction
– The sexes are separate-each individual is either
male or female
– Both egg and sperm are released into the water
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Groups of Cnidarians
• Jellies (formerly jellyfishes)
• Hydras and their relatives
• Sea anemones
• Corals
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Groups of Cnidarians
• Class Scyphozoa: “cup animal”
– Jellyfish
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Classes of Cnidarians
Class Scyphozoa
• Spend most of their lives as medusa
• The polyp form is limited to a larva stage
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Classes of Cnidarians
Class Scyphozoa
• The largest jellyfish ever found is 4 meters
in diameter with tentacles more than 30
meters in length
• Most species are harmless, many can cause
servere allergic reactions/even kill people
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Groups of Cnidarians
• Class Hydrozoa: Hydras; Portuguese Man of
War
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Classes of Cnidarians Class Hydrozoa
• The polyps of most hydrozoans grow in
branching colonies that sometimes extend
more than a meter.
• Within a colony, the polyps are specialized to
perform different functions.
• EX: One polyp forms a balloon-like float
keeps the entire colony afloat
• Portuguese Man of War
that
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Classes of Cnidarians
Class Hydrozoa
• Most common in freshwater hydrozoan is a
hydra
• Lack medusa stage (solitary polyp)
• Reproduce sexually (producing eggs and
sperm in the body wall)
and asexually (budding)
• a few species
are hermaphroditic
Click Picture To Watch a 2 Minute Hydra Budding Video
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Groups of Cnidarians
• Class Anthozoa: “flower animal”
– Sea Anemones and Corals
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Classes of Cnidarians
Class Anthozoa
• Grow only as polyps / no medusa stage
• Central body that is surrounded by tentacles
• Many species are colonial (composed of
many individual polyps)
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Classes of Cnidarians
Class Anthozoa
• Corals and sea anemones reproduce
sexually by producing free swimming
larvae
• The free swimming larvae attach to rocks
and then form polyps
• Also can reproduce by budding
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Classes of Cnidarians
Class Anthozoa
• Forming Coral Reefs
– Formed when hard coral from layers of
skeleton (CaCO3)
– Algae forms a sybiotic relationship with coral
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Click Picture To Watch a 1 Minute Coral Budding Video
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Ecology of Corals
• The worldwide distribution is determined by:
– Temperature
– Water depth
– Light intensity
Click Picture To Watch a 5 Minute Coral Spawn Video
• Many suffer from human activity
• Coral bleaching has become common
• Global warming may add to the problem