BIOL2712 Study Guide - Final Guide: Annelid, Rotifer, Polychaete
Locomotion and Movement
Why move?
Feeding/resource acquisition
Escape from predation
Avoidance of harmful environmental conditions
Enhanced dispersal
Find a mate (further away to avoid inbreeding)
Jellyfish (cnidarian)
Jet propulsion
Liquids are incompressible
Diploblastic
oi.e. muscle ectodermal or entrodermal cells with elongated contractile bases
anchored in mesogloea
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Flatworms (Platyhelminthes)
Rotifera
Looping locomotion
Contraction of circular muscles elongation of body
Contraction of longitudinal muscles bending
Foot attachment
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