Unit 3:  Phylum Porifera and Phylum Cnidaria (Sponges and Radiates)

1.  Explain the basis for separating the sponges into the three classes, Calcarea, Hexactinellida and Demospongiae, and state the composition of the supporting structures in the members of each class.
2.  Describe the tissues, organs, nerves, coordination, digestive system and general activity of sponges to support the statement that sponges are metazoa of the cellular grade of construction.
3.  Describe the forms and functions of the following sponge cell types, and list any synonyms of these terms:  choanocyte, pinacocyte, porocyte, myocyte, scleroblast, archaeocyte.
4.  Define sessile and describe how this term applies to the phylums porifera and cnidaria.
5.  List the primary building materials used by sponges.
6.  Diagram various forms of spicules used by sponges to construct their skeleton.
7.  Trace the pathway of a food molecule through a common sponge.
8.  Detail the three canal systems used by sponges.  Highlight specifically the increase in surface area enabling sponges to attain larger sizes.
9.  Discuss reproductive strategies of the sponges.  Highlight the use of gemmules by freshwater sponges.  Also discuss the lack of differentiation among the sponges allowing them great powers of regeneration.
10.  Explain why coelenterates (cnidarians) are referred to as animals of the tissue grade of construction.
11.  Explain the following terms:  planula, gastrovascular cavity, polyp, medusa.
12.  Discuss the basis for the phylum name cnidaria.
13.  Define polymorphism and its applications to the cnidarian phylum.
14.  Describe the three tissue layers and detail the types of cells found in each.
15.  List the classes of cnidarians and give representatives of each class.
16.  Describe the importance of the polyp and medusa stages in the life cycles of typical Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa and Anthozoa.
17.  Describe the appearance of an Obelia colony, and outline the life cycle, naming each stage.
18.  Describe the general form and activities of Hydra.
19.  Explain in detail the origin and functioning of the nematocyst.
20.  Compare the methods of digesting food in Hydra and Scypha.
21.  Compare the nervous systems of Hydra and Scypha.
22.  Compare the gas exchange and excretory systems of Hydra and Scypha.
23.  Describe structure and function of rhopalium, statocysts and ocillus.
24.  Describe the creation of coral reefs by the anthozoans.
25.  Describe three types of reefs.
26.  Discuss how coral reefs are currently being used as barometers of worldwide ecological degradation.
27.  Explain the etymology of Ctenophora, and list the common names and describe the appearance of members of this phylum.
28.  Describe the habitat and general importance of ctenophores.
29.  Compare the general appearance and body construction of cnidarians and ctenophores.

Resources:  Text:  Animal Diversity, Chapters  6, 7
Internet Resources:
    Porifera
     
      http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/porifera/porifera.html
      http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/phylum_porifera.htm
     

    Cnidaria
      http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/cnidaria.html
      http://orion1.paisley.ac.uk/courses/tatner/biomedia/units/
       http://www.mhhe.com/hickmanad4e

Kingdom Animalia
    Phylum Porifera- "pore bearers"  5000-10,000 species
        seperate branch of metazoa (multicellular) --> Parazoa "beside animal"

        Origins-  a) colonial;  b) syncytial

        Parazoa, multicellular but without tissues, organs
            -uniquely different from other multicellular groups.

            -unusual embryonic development
        Larva- free swimming; adult sessile, plant-like
            -cellular level of organization

            -diverse, abundant
            -all aquatic, mostly marine
            -size: tip of finger to 1m across

            -radially symmetric or no symmetry at all

            -suspension feeders (filter feeders), no mouth, no gut; Choanocytes,
                phagocytosis, intracellular digestion

            -Collagen (spongin), calcium carbonate, silica for all skeletal components
            -no nervous system; reactions slow, localized and rarely perceptable

            -sexual and asexual

**Water canal system unique, central to functioning of organism  evolutionary trends
        to increase surface  area w/o increaing volume

CELL TYPES/ BODY PLANS  **first group w/ cellular specialization but no tissues

    CHOANOCYTES- collar cells pg 115-116

        -line inner canals and chambers of sponge

        -flagella inside collar creates current through sponge
        -collar serves as filter

        -trapped food digested by phagocytic action of main part of cell and archaeocytes

        -food also sent to neighboring cells (archaeocytes)

    PINACOCYTES- epidermis pg 115
    POROCYTES- pg 115, creates openings in sponge wall, tube like, donut-shaped
    MYOCYTES- circle oscula (openings in sponge) regulate H2O flow

    ARCHEOCYTES- pg 116, amoebocytes, form other cell types as needed;  digests
            particles from choanocytes.
        -sclerocytes- form spicules
        -spongocytes- secrete spongin

        -collanocytes- secrete collagen

    **all cell types found in mesohyl, matrix of connective fibers and amoebocytes.
 

    Skeleton (system??)
        combo of fibers (spongin, collagen) and SPICULES

        -Collagen- most abundant protein in animal kingdom, found in bone, muscle, hair,  nails
        -Spicules- composed of silica (2 groups) or calcium carbonate (one group)

    Various forms pg 116
 

        Monoaxon                               Triaxon                                   Hexaxon
 
 
 

Respiration/Excretion
    -diffusion/ contractile vacuoles

Nutrition
    Filter feeding
    Intracellular digestion
        -phagocytosis by archeocytes

Reproduction
    Sexual- egg (ova) & sperm in mesohyl produce flagellates
        larva ---> swim ---> settle ---> grow into sessile adult

        MONOECIOUS- male and female in same individual

        DIOECIOUS- male and female seperate

    Asexual- budding, external growth
        gemmules- internal buds, capable of surviving hostile conditions
        fragmentation/regeneration

BODY STRUCTURE
    Ostia- openings for water to enter
    osculum- opening at top of sponge for water to exit

    Choanocyte-

    Spongocoel- inner large cavity

CANAL SYSTEMS  pg 113-115
    1. Asconoid- simplest (flagellated spongocoel)
        -tube shaped        -water ---> ostia ---> porocyte

        -water expelled through single large osculum
        -Calcarea only (Leucosolenia )

        -group connected by stolon

    2. Syconoid- (flagellated canals)
        -body folded to produce canals
        -greater surface area for exchange

        ***more surface area ---> more choanocytes ---> more flagella  --->
            more water flow ---> more food ---> larger size

        -found in Calcarea and Hexactinellida
        - Scypha (Grantia)

    3. Leuconoid (flagellated canals folded to form chambers much like our lung)

        -further increase in S.A. therefore, largest, most efficient

        -most common body plan
        -colonial w/ individual osculum
        -incurrent canals, excurrent canals

        -Calcarea, Demospongiae
        -bath sponges

CLASSIFICATION  117-119, 120
    1. Class Calcarea
        -calcium carbonate spicules
        -all three body plans
        -shallow water
        -Grantia
    2. Class Hexactinellida
        -silica spicules
        -all syconoid and leuconoid
        -deep H2O
        -Euplectella
    3. Class Demospongiae
        -most common ~80%, bath sponge
        -silica spicules, spongin or both
        -all leuconoid
        -has only freshwater family (Spongilla )
        -cultivated by regeneration

PHYLUM CNIDARIA (COELENTERATA)
    -Hydra, jellyfish, anemones, corals;  9-11,000 species

    -named for NEMATOCYSTS found in the CNIDOCYTES  pg 127-128

    -tissue grade construction  pg 126-127
        *3body layers: epidermis (ecto)
                                gastrodermis (endo)

    MESOGLEA- connective tissue and amoeboid cells; gelatinous ---> jellyfish

MAJOR ADVANCES  pg 123, 124
    1. Radial symmetry w/ oral and aboral (tail, base)
    2. mouth and digestive cavity (system) ---> eat large food items

    3. Diploblastic and acoelomate?
        -often with cells in mesoglea (triploblastic??)

    4. POLYMORPHISM  pg 124-125- presence of more than one structural type
            of individual
        -polyp- hydroid form, sessile (live single or in colonies)

        -medusa- jelly fish form, floating or free swimming

        *appear quite different but retain sac like structure w/tentacles around mouth

            Polyp - sessile

            *relatively thin animals, all cells close to exposed surface therefore ---> diffusion
                prominent

            Medusa- mobile

            *Bell or umbrella shaped, mouth down, thick gelatinous mesoglea
 

Tissue Grade Construction  pg 126-128

    1. epidermis - one cell thick, 5 cell types

        a) epithelio-muscular- contractile, parallel to axis, longitudinal (muscle-like)
        b) CNIDOCYTE- secretes NEMATOCYST

        c) sensory- elongated, multipolar, contributes to nerve net

        d) interstitial- germ cells, give rise to gametes and epithelial cells

        e) mucus secreting cells- muscle fibers, on basal disc.

    2. MESOGLEA- variable composition and thickness, wandering amoebocytes
        -w/ or w/o cells; w/ or w/o nerve net
        -in jellyfish, rigid, skeletal function

    3. gastrodermis- similar to epidermis but inside
        a) nutritive muscle cell, engulf small food particles, flagellated
        b) enzyme gland cell, secrete enzymes for digestion

NEMATOCYSTS
    -anchorage, defense and prey capture
    -basis of taxonomy for some groups
    -made only by Cnidaria; some predators able to use nematocysts

    Nematocyst types
        volvent- entangles
        penetrant- penetrates prey, injects toxin
        glutinant- sticky, anchorage

    Discharge- chemical or mechanical discharge;  Hydrostatic pressure within
        nematocyst

        capsule everts tube (inside out) ---> nematocyst explodes and unwinds

        -can only be used once

LOCOMOTION pg 125
    medusa- jet propulsion- contraction of ring of circular muscles(?) around bell
    polyp- basal creeping, swimming (escape), sommersaulting (hydra)

NUTRITION pg 126
    -all carnivores
    -nematocysts, tentacles
    -swallow---> cilia, mucus, muscular action
    -extracellular digestion in gastrovascular cavity
    -undigested materials "spit out"

NERVOUS SYSTEM pg 128
    -nerve net just below epithelium
    -no polarization, fibers conduct in either direction

Classification 128-140 (summary 140)

CLASS HYDROZOA- hydras and hydroids (Obelia)
    -includes all freshwater cnidaria
    -life cycle varies:
        1. alternation of polyp and meduse ( Obelia)
        2. polyp only (Hydra), budding, sexual w/ egg and sperm
        3. medusa only
            *1 and 3 use a planula larva stage
    -mesoglea never cellular
    -gastrodermis lacks nematocysts

        Hydrozoan colony Polymorphism- Physalia
        -highly specialized, pelagic, polyp and medusa together

CLASS SCYPHOZOA- true jelly fish ( Aurelia)
    -large, medusa dominant
    -oral arms aid in food capture
    -thick gelatinous mesoglea w/ amoebocytes
    -predators and ciliary mucus feeders
    -gut divided into 4 pouches (increases surface area!)
    -specialized sense organ RHOPALIUM; club shaped structure around bell
        margin w/ STATOCYSTS for balance or an OCILLUS for light detect.
    -tentacles w/ large batteries of nematocysts

CLASS ANTHOZOA (flower animals), anemonies and corals
    -entirely marine
    -biradial symmetry
    -solitary or colonial
    -gut compartmentalized w/ SEPTA (septa contain gonad and nematocysts)
    -mesoglea w/ amoebocytes
    -mouth ---> SIPHONOGLYPH- ciliated groove, water circulation
    -tentacles hollow
    -mostly carnivorous w/ some ciliary mucus feeders
    -nerve net

CORAL REEFS
    -corals, hard and soft, anthozoans, gorgonians, hydrozoa;  algae, especially
        coralline algae help cement reefs together
    -tropics, usually shallow water, although up to 300 feet near Jamaica
 

3 reef types  pg 139-140
    1. fringing reef- all coral reefs in Hawaii
    2. barrier reef: Caroline Islands; Australia (1/2 to 1 1/2 mile offshore
    3. Atolls- rings of coral reef w/ island above water on reef,  lagoon

Phylum Ctenophora - Comb Jellies pg. 140-141

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