PPT-Sponges Phylum: Porifera

Sponge Characteristics Simplest animal Live in all oceans but prefer shallow tropical waters Sessile Asymmetrical body plan Filter feeders can filter several thousand liters a day Sponge Anatomy. ible. This can also be done with the entire class, especially if it is small. 4. Have each student group explain their diagram briefly. Disc gh the sponge? Do -feeding 1. Show students a slide sho By Tim Allen, Tim Kang, . Niko. Escanilla, and Paul Woo. Sponges. Phylum = Porifera. Scientific name = . Calcareous. sponge. Common Name = Yellow Calcareous Sponge. Sponges. Phylum = . Porifera. Scientific name = . Phylum: . Porifera. Sponge Characteristics. Simplest animal. Live in all oceans but prefer shallow tropical waters.. Sessile. Asymmetrical body plan. Filter feeders – can filter several thousand liters a day.. Relate the form of specific structures to their function within this group.. Compare and contrast radial and bilateral symmetry.. Apply how the evolution of the segmented body led to increased motility. Chapter 6, Zoology. Phylum . Porifera. Pronounced (. po. -. rif. '-. er. -a). The name means “bearing pores”. Sponges are made up of . a system. of tiny . pores and canals. that make up a intricate . What should animals with radial symmetry be better able to do than those with bilateral symmetry?. move quickly in one direction. detect threats from above or below equally well. deal effectively with food distributed homogeneously in 360. Sponges are a diverse group of common types, with about 5000 species known across the world. . Sponges are primarily marine, but around 150 species live in fresh water. . Sponges have cellular-level organization, meaning that that their cells are specialized so that different cells perform different functions.. th. Grade Biology. Sponges. S. ponges are the simplest form of multi-cellular animals. A sponge is a bottom-dwelling creature which attaches itself to something solid in a place where it can find enough food to grow. The scientific name for sponges is ". Venus’s Flower Basket w/ . Wedding Shrimp. Porifera. I. Considered simple animals as they consist of many cell types with special . functions. & they lack . tissues . and . organs. . . II. Their skeleton can be composed from . Vase Sponge. (. Ircinia. . campana. ). Tube Sponge. (. Callyspongia. . vaginalis. ). Learning Goals. : . I can label the anatomy of a sea sponge.. I can differentiate between the types of sea sponges.. Phylum Porifera Invertebrates There are 2 Types of animals Vertebrates : Animals with backbones. Invertebrates : Animals without backbones. * About 97% of all animal species are inverts. Kingdom Porifera. . . Pressence. of Pores : . ostia. and . Osculum. . Cellular level of . Organisation. .. Pressence. of . Asconoid. or . Syconoid. or . Leuconoid. canal system.. Endoskeleton is formed of . Choanoflagellates. Characteristics. Multicellular . Asymmetric. . Simplest. . of all animals. “. Pore-Bearing. ” - body with pores (ostia). Skeleton made of . spicules. . and/or spongin. Mostly marine (97%), some freshwater (3%). Sponges are primarily marine, but around 150 species live in fresh water. . Sponges have cellular-level organization, meaning that that their cells are specialized so that different cells perform different functions..