THIS WEEK IN BIO153

Tuesday: Lecture 14: Animal diversity

Thursday: Lecture 15: Invertebrate diversity

Friday: Tutorial 7

Readings: Chapters 32 & 33

Lab 7: Invertebrates II

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15: INVERTEBRATE DIVERSITY

How can we interpret the evolution of the coelom?
How have invertebrates adapted to their environment?

blue-blood b/c they never went

outside and they were so white
their veins showed

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THE TRULY BLUE-BLOODED

horse shoe crabs - bacteria

and ecoli tests

CNIDARIANS ARE DIPLOBLASTIC AND RADIALLY SYMMETRIC

sessile and mobile for parts of their lives

AND THEY HAVE AN AMAZING WEAPON

-many new body
plans evolved during
the Cambrian
explosion
-Cnidarians have
been radially
symmetric and
diploblastic since
560million years

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LOPHOTROCHOZOANS INCLUDE A WIDE RANGE OF BODY PLANS

Polyplacophora

THEIR NAME COMES FROM A FEEDING STRUCTURE AND A LARVAL FORM

AND THEY GOT A FEW TRICKS

squid flying with jet propulsion, swim
5 times as fast than they would under
water
-one way of avoiding predators
-we actually have no idea why this
happens, what use it is for

spiral follows Fibanachi sequence

-producing these membranes a it grows, moves out
-each of those membranes have pores, nautalus uses this for flamboyancy
regulation, allows it to move it up and down (just like scuba divers do!)

ECDYSOZOANS INCLUDE THE MOST SPECIES

Ecdysis = moulting = shedding a touch external coat (cuticle)

HOW DID THE ARTHROPOD BODY PLAN ARISE?

velvet worms

THERE ARE A VARIETY OF WEB FORMS

AND FUNCTIONS

Vollrath, F. 1992. Sci. Am.

SPIDER SILK IS A COMPOSITE MATERIAL

Vollrath, F. 1992. Sci. Am.

A SPIDER CAN PRODUCE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SILK

SPIDER WEBS ARE STORM-PROOF

THE GARDEN SPIDERS WEB IS A MECHANISM

bubble of liquid on the

inside and on the inside
you have a cable drum

HYBRID SILK OFFERS LOTS OF PROMISES

NEXT LECTURE PERIOD

Tutorial 7