BIOL 337- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
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Spicules (calcareous or siliceous) or spongin (fibers made up of collagen: sclerocytes, cells secreting spicules, spongocytes, cells secreting spongin fibers, spicules and spongin: In colonial species with skeletal support, polyps are supported by proteinaceous or calcareous internal skeletons. Includes sea fans, and sea whips and pipe corals: tissues are known to accumulate a variety of biochemical derived from fatty-acid metabolism, protect the coral from predation and overgrowth by other organisms, general characteristics: Includes fibers running longitudinally, circumferentially, dorsoventrally and diagonally: looping: movement of all the musculature. In some species epitoky involves the remodeling of preexisting structures rather than the budding off of new ones: usually fertilization occurs externally, free living embryo soon develop a digestive system and two rings of cilia called the: Chapter 14: arthropods: epidermis produces a segmented, jointed and hardened chitinous exoskeleton with intrinsic musculature between individual joints of appendages, complete loss of motile cilia in adult and larval stages.