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What is the frontal/coronal plane? - THE CORRECT ANSWER-
Vertical plane that divides into ventral and dorsal parts
What is the transverse plane? - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Vertical
plane that divides into anterior and posterior parts
Anterior - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Head end
Posterior - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Tail end
Dorsal - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Back or upper side
Ventral - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Front or belly side
Median/Medial - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Midline of the body;
towards the middle of the body
Lateral - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Towards the sides
,What is diploblastic organization? Examples? - THE CORRECT
ANSWER-Body parts that are organized into layers derived from
two tissue layers; ectoderm and endoderm; examples include
Cnidaria
What is triploblastic organization? Examples? - THE CORRECT
ANSWER-Body parts that are organized into layers derived from
three tissue layers; ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm;
examples include Platyhelminthes to Mammals
What does complete gut mean? - THE CORRECT ANSWER-
Organism has a distinct mouth and anus
What does incomplete gut mean? - THE CORRECT ANSWER-
Organism only presents one opening, mouth
What is a protostome? - THE CORRECT ANSWER-"mouth" + "first";
mouth forms before anus in embryonic stage; 5 phyla =
Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Mollusca, Annelida, and
Arthropoda
What is a deuterostome? - THE CORRECT ANSWER-"second" +
"mouth"; mouth forms after the anus in embryonic stage; 3
phyla = Echinodermata, Hemichordata, and Chordata
Ectoderm - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Outer layer of body wall;
epidermis
, Endoderm - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Lines the gut cavity;
gastrodermis
Mesoderm - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Between the ecto and
endoderms
Acoelomate - THE CORRECT ANSWER-"without" + "gut"
Pseudocoelomate - THE CORRECT ANSWER-"fake" + "gut"
Coelomate - THE CORRECT ANSWER-"true" + "gut"
Metamerism (segmentation) - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Serial
repetition of similar body segments along longitudinal axis of the
body
What is binomial nomenclature? - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Generic
name (genus) + trivial name (specific)
Taxonomic Hierarchy - THE CORRECT ANSWER-Kingdom, Phylum,
Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
What's the organelle in protists that is most important for
osmoregulation? - THE CORRECT ANSWER-In marine forms =
isotonic contractile vacuoles, in freshwater forms = hypertonic
contractile vacuoles