BIO 2135 Study Guide - Lophophore, Coelom, Bryozoa

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Ancestrula: the founding zooid that undergoes asexual budding to form a bryozoan colony. They are filter feeders that get food particles out of water using a retractable lophophore. Cardiac stomach: the part of the stomach in bryozoans that is closest to the mouth. Cecum: the part of the bryozoan digestive tract where the digestion occurs so that food can be absorbed in nutrient form. Coelom: a true body cavity completely lined by mesoderm which forms the peritoneum. Animals with true coeloms are referred to as eucolomates. Cystide: in bryozoan colonies, it consists of the non-living shells or casing and the living part of the animal that secretes the casing. Enterocoleus: the enteron develops two mesodermal pouches on its sides (like mickey mouse ears) which eventually bud off an begin forming the mesoderm. Epistome: flap-like covering of the oral opening in lophophorates. Formed from the protocoel, it may or may not have a coleomic cavity inside.

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