6 Kingdoms
5 connections
- Protists and plante; green algae as ancestor and photosynthesis
 - Connection to how cephalization between phyla was selected
 - Internal fertilization in Platyhelminthes and mammals
 - Bryophytes reproduce in water with spores like fungi
 - Gram negative more resistant to antibiotics; how through evolution also carried onto some protozoans 
 
Animalia (Eukaryote)
Chordata
Symmetry
Body Cavity
- Coelom; completely lined; mesoderm layer
 - Triploblastic
 
Characteristics
- In deuterostomes; blastopore=anus → later mouth
 
Subphyla:
Urochordate - tunicates
Cephalochordate - filter feeders
Characteristics 
- Presence of hair
 - Viviparous; live birth
 
3 orders
Order Pinnipedia
- Fin-footed for propulsion
 
Seals and Walruses
Order Proboscidea
- Nose modified into long boneless trunk
 
Elephants
Order Cetacea
- Extra capillaries in the lungs
 - Fusiform-shaped body; virtually hairless
 
Whales and Porpoises
3 major groupings with reproductive strategy
Placental mammal
Characteristics
- placenta organ; connect mother and baby
 - Otter, Humans 
 
Reproductive Strategy:
- develop inside mother's body, until body systems can function alone
 
Marsupial
Characteristics
- Continue to develop inside the pouch
 - Kangaroos, Koala
 
Reproductive Strategy
- Birth to babies that are not completely developed
 
Monotremes
Characteristics
- Only one body opening for waste and eggs to pass
 - Alive today=spiny anteater & platypus
 
Reproductive Strategy:
Vertebrates
Classes
Mammals
Reproductive tract; humans - dolphin
- 4 chambered heart
 - Endothermic
 
Aves
All birds
- 4 chambered heart
 - amniotic egg
 
Reptilia
Turtles, lizards
Characteristics
- 3 chambered heart
 - amniotic egg
 
Amphibia
Frogs, toads
- 3 chambered heart
 - return to water to reproduce
 
Osteichthyes
Bony fish; tuna - salmon
Chondrichthyes
Sharks, Rays
Agnatha
Primitive
2 superclasses
Gnathostomata (jawed)
Agnathans (jawless)
Examples: 
Echinodermata (starfish)
Symmetry
Body Cavity
- Coelom; completely lined; mesoderm layer
 - Triploblastic; deuterostome 
 
Characteristics
- five part body plan
 - CaCO3 platelets
 
Reproduction
- Sexual; some asexual-disk division
 
Arthopoda (insects)
Symmetry
Body Cavity
- Coelom; completely lined; mesoderm layer
 - Triploblastic
 
Characteristics
- protostomes; mouth first
 - Joint appendages; exoskeleton+chitin
 
- molt
Reproduction
- sexual & internal using appendages
 - Unfertilized eggs 
 
Subphyla
• Myriapoda
Classes:
- Chilopoda - Centipedes; 15+ trunk seg.
 - Diplopoda - Millipedes; 11-100 trunk seg.
 - Pauropoda - small, millipede-like
 - Symphyla - Garden centipedes
 
Characteristics
- Two body sections
 - One pair of antennae on the head.
 
• Crustacea
Classes:
- Malacostra - Crabs
 - Maxillopoda - Barnacle
 - Branchiopoda - Fairy shrimps 
 - Ostracoda - Seed shrimp 
 
Characteristics
- Mandibles; compound eyes
 - Biramous appendages
 
• Hexapoda
Classes:
- Insecta - Butterfly; 3 body segm. 
 - Entognatha - Apterous; wingless - Springtail
 
Characteristics
- Metamorphosis
 - Mandibles and maxillae
 
• Chelicerates
Classes:
- Arachnida - Spiders
 - Merostomata - Horseshoe crab
 - Pycnogonida - Marine; sea spiders
 
Characteristics
- six pairs of appendages
 - Chelicerae and Pedipalps mouth parts
 - No mandibles and no antennae
 
Mollusca (snail/oysters)
Symmetry
Body Cavity
- Coelom; completely lined; mesoderm layer; triploblastic
 
Characteristic
- Protostomes; blastopore=mouth
 - invertebrates; mantle and foot
 
Reproduction
3 major classes
• Cephalopods
- Complex brain; Cephalization
 - Closed circulatory system
 
Example: Octopus; force water out from mantle cavity 
• Bivalves
- Do not have well formed head
 - Open circulatory system
 
Example: Clams; no radula  
• Gastropods
- Well developed head; cephalization
 - Open circulatory system
 
Example: Snail; light sensing organs at the end of tentacles 
Annelida (segmented worms)
Symmetry
Body Cavity
- Coelom- completely lined; mesoderm layer
 - Complex internal organs; muscular gut (intestines)
 
Characteristics
- Triploblastic; Protostomes
 - Chaetae; hairs of chitin
 
Reproduction
- Sexual; sometimes asexual
 - Gonochoristic or Hemaphroditic 
 
Nematods (roundworms)
Symmetry
Body Cavity
- Tissues and organs germ layer-mesoderm. 
 - Pseudocoelomate- not perfectly layered
 
Characteristics
- Triploblastic; protostomes
 - nervous system; nerve ring
 
Reproduction
- sexual; copulatory spine open
 
Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
Symmetry
Body Cavity
- Tissues + organs; germ layer-mesoderm
 - Acoelomate
 
Characteristics
- Triploblastic; Protostomes
 - Parasitic; few free-living
 
Reproduction
- fairly advanced degree of cephalization
 
Cnidaria (jellyfish/coral)
Symmetry
Body Cavity
- Mouth no anus (gastrovascular)
 - - coelom
 
Characteristics
- Polyp; sessile; single opening (the mouth)
 - Medusa; motile; mouth
 
Reproduction
- Asexual; budding or Sexual; gametes
 
- some degree of cephalization
 
Porifera (sponges)
Symmetry
Body Cavity
- None (pores)
 - Diploblastic animals; outer dermal layer and the inner gastral layer.
 
Characteristics
- Marine; some freshwater
 - Asexual reproduction; budding, fragmentation - Sexual reproduction; gametic fusion
 
Plante (Eukaryote)
- Stomata; gas exchange
 - Guard cells - At night; close stomata 
 - Tropisms; stimulus 
 
4 Phyla
Bryophyta
- No vascular structure; rhizoids, attach the mosses to a surface (moist areas)
- Stop reproducing when dried out
Hylocomium splendens; Mountain fern moss
Filicinophyta
- Full-sized roots and leaves; produce spores
- Some are aquatic or even grown on other trees
Lady fern
Coniferophyta
- Stand both the heat and cold  
- Produce cones and needles or spiky leaves.
Pine; cones & spikes
Angiospermophyta
create flowers to reproduce, or flowering plants
Dicots
Cabbage; veined leaves
-Cotyledon; stores nutrients
Monocot
Corn; parrallel veins; seed (one cotyledon)
Adaptations
- Nutrient + Water Transport 
- Vascular tissue
Reproductive Strategies: 
- Sexual; use of seeds
- Asexual; using parts other than seeds
- Xylem – water + minerals; roots to other parts 
- Phloem – transport of sugars & larger molecule
- Cell walls made of cellulose
- Store food in the form of starch
- Develop from embryos
- Evolved from chlorophyte algae; green algae (a protist)
Fungi (Eukaryote)
4 Major Phyla
Produce spores; asexual and sexual life cycles; non motile
Yeast are unicellular and divide into new fungal cells (mitosis); sexual or asexual
Water moulds; zoospores; asexual and sexual
Zygomycota; sexual and asexual
Mushrooms let out spores; meet other spores and become a new fungi; Sexual rep.
Mycotoxins; spore-borne toxins made by fungi
harmful to vertebrates and other animals
- No chlorophyll – non photosynthetic
- Most multicellular; some unicellular 
- Cell walls made of chitin; Heterotrophic
Protists (Eukaryote)
3 Main Groupings
Fungus-like
- Decomposers, like fungi 
- Can move, like animals
- Unicellular; heterotrophs
Water moulds;  freshwater
Great Potato Famine
parasites of plants or fish
Plant-like
+ chlorophylls – photosynthetic  
 - Single-celled or multicellular
Diatoms
eg. phytoplankton
containing chlorophylls; undergo photosynthesis
- single-celled, colonies
- (make ½ of oxygen on planet)
Protozoa (Animal-like)
- Single-celled, heterotrophs; motile
- Reproduce; binary fission or conjugation
Giardia; from contaminated water causes “beaver fever”
Flagellates: Some move with flagella; binary fission
- ALL protists are aquatic 
- Able to move (motile)
Eubacteria (Prokaryote)
- Gram-Positive bacteria (A); thick layer; purple
 - Gram-Negative bacteria (B); thin layer; pink
 
3 Major Morphologies
- Pathogen; disease-causing microorganism
- Once it gains entrance to body, it will produce toxins harmful to host
Sprillium&Spirochetes (spiral shaped)
Sprilllium is thick and rigid aquatic
infection caused by the bacterium Spirillum minus; transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected rat
Bacillus (rod Shaped)
nonmotile gram-negative; rat bite fever
Coccus (circular shape)
Streptococci are gram-positive aerobic; pneumonia
- Cell walls with peptidoglycan 
- Aerobic or anaerobic
- Binary Fission;(asexual)
- Conjugation; (sexual)
- Photosynthetic Bacteria → autotrophs
- Chemosynthetic Bacteria → heterotrophic
Archaebacteria (prokaryote)
1 Example; Methanogens
- Coccus and bacillus 
- Consume CO2 and H and release CH4
Defining Characteristics
-Anaerobic: without oxygen 
-No peptidoglycan in cell walls
Extremophiles - tolerate 
extreme conditions like