BIOL10005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Nerve Net, Dieting, Triploblasty

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL10005
• Professor: Dawn Gleeson

Document Summary

* 1. 7 -2 (cid:373)illio(cid:374) (cid:858)li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g(cid:859) a(cid:374)i(cid:373)al spe(cid:272)ies (cid:858)des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)ed(cid:859) * 75% insects, 6% molluscs (e. g. slugs, snails), 3% are crustaceans (e. g. * 75% insects, 6% molluscs (e. g. slugs, snails), 3% are crustaceans (e. g. crabs), 0. 4% are mammals & * the order of division ----- kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. * ph(cid:455)lu(cid:373) (cid:894)plural = ph(cid:455)la(cid:895) is the highest u(cid:374)it of (cid:272)lassifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) after (cid:858)ki(cid:374)gdo(cid:373)(cid:859) * animals grouped into phyla based on shared characteristics (same as plants, and in fungi) * all animals in the kingdom metazoa are multicellular. * a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als are heterotrophi(cid:272) (cid:894)do(cid:374)(cid:859)t produ(cid:272)e their o(cid:449)(cid:374) food(cid:895) * important parasites (all plants & animals have at least one species of nematode) * most abundant in animals in antarctica (indicates that they can live in extreme environments) * moult (like arthropods) shed their skin to grow. * eutelic (fixed number of cells/species) species specific so you can tell which species it is by counting the number of cells.