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Animal Kingdom

1) The document classifies the animal kingdom into various phyla based on their characteristics and level of organization. 2) It describes key features of different phyla including Porifera, Coelenterata, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Aschelminthes, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Echinodermata, Hemichordata, Chordata and Vertebrata. 3) The classification system is based on symmetry, tissue complexity, body plan and presence of organ systems.

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Animal Kingdom

1) The document classifies the animal kingdom into various phyla based on their characteristics and level of organization. 2) It describes key features of different phyla including Porifera, Coelenterata, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Aschelminthes, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Echinodermata, Hemichordata, Chordata and Vertebrata. 3) The classification system is based on symmetry, tissue complexity, body plan and presence of organ systems.

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ANIMAL KINGDOM

CLASSIFICATION
Phylum-porifera
• Phylum – Porifera includes organisms with holes.
• They are commonly called sponges.
• They are generally marine and
mostly asymmetrical animals.
• Sponges have a water transport or canal system.
• Sexes are not separate (hermaphrodite), i.e.,
eggs and sperms are produced by the same
individual.
• Sponges reproduce asexually by fragmentation
and sexually by formation of gametes.
Phylum – Coelenterata (Cnidaria)

• Coelenterata (Cnidaria) are aquatic, mostly


marine sessile or free-swimming radially
symmetrical
• They are diploblastic.
• Some of these species live in colonies
(corals).
• Digestion is extracellular and intracellular.
Phylum – Ctenophora
• Ctenophora are commonly known as sea
walnuts or comb jellies.
• They exclusively marine, radially symmetrical,
diploblastic
• Bioluminescence (the property of a living
organism to emit light) is well-marked in
ctenophores.
• Fertilisation is external [fertilization occurs
outside the body] with indirect
development [zygote → larvae → animal].
Phylum – Platyhelminthes
• They are bilaterally symmetrical.
• They are triploblastic. This allows outside and
inside body linings as well as some organs to
be made. There is thus some degree of tissue
formation [organ level of organisation].
• The body is flattened dorsiventrally, meaning
from top to bottom, which is why these
animals are called flatworms.
• They may be freeliving or parasitic. Hooks
and suckers are present in the parasitic forms.
Phylum – Platyhelminthes
• Acoelomate: There is no true internal body
cavity or coelom, in which well developed
organs can be accommodated.
• Specialised cells called flame cells help in
osmoregulation and excretion.
• Sexes are not separate.
• Fertilisation is internal and development
is indirect.
• Some members like Planaria possess high
regeneration capacity.
Phylum – Aschelminthes
(Nemotoda)
• Body in aschelminthes (Nemotoda)
is cylindrical [bilaterally symmetrical] rather
than flattened.
• They are triploblastic. A sort of body cavity
or a pseudocoelom, is present.
• The body is circular in cross-section, hence,
the name roundworms.
• Sexes are separate (dioecious), i.e., males
and females are distinct.
• Often females are longer than males.
Phylum – Annelida
• They are bilateral
symmetric and triploblastic.
• Nereis, an aquatic form, is dioecious [Sexes
are separate],
but earthworms and leeches are
monoecious [having both the male and
female reproductive organs in the same
individual].
• Reproduction is sexual.
Phylum – Arthropoda
• They are bilaterally symmetrical,
triploblastic, segmented and coelomate The
coelomic cavity is blood-filled.
• There is an open circulatory system, and so
the blood does not flow in well defined
blood vessels.
• Respiratory organs are gills, book gills,
book lungs or tracheal system.
Phylum – Mollusca
• They are bilaterally symmetrical,
triploblastic, coelomate animals.
• They have an open circulatory system
and kidney-like organs for excretion.
• The mouth contains a file-like rasping
organ for feeding, called radula.
Phylum – Echinodermata
• They are exclusively free-living marine
animals with organ-system level of
organisation.
• They are triploblastic with a coelomic cavity
[coelomate animals]. The adult
echinoderms are radially symmetrical but
larvae are bilaterally symmetrical.
• Digestive system is complete. An excretory
system is absent.
Phylum – Hemichordata
• This phylum consists of a small group
of worm-like marine animals with organ-
system level of organisation.
• They are cylindrical [bilaterally symmetrical],
triploblastic, coelomate animals.
• The body is Circulatory system is of open
type.
• Respiration takes place through gills.
• Excretory organ is present.
Phylum – Chordata
• They are bilaterally symmetrical,
triploblastic, coelomate with organ-system
level of organisation.
• They possess a post anal tail and a closed
circulatory system.
Vertebrata
• These animals have a true vertebral column
and internal skeleton, allowing a completely
different distribution of muscle attachment
points to be used for movement.
• Thus all vertebrates are chordates but all
chordates are not vertebrates.
• Vertibrates are bilaterally symmetrical,
triploblastic, coelomic and segmented, with
complex differentiation of body tissues and
organs.
Vertebrata
• Besides the basic chordate characters,
vertebrates have a ventral muscular heart
with two, three or four chambers, kidneys
for excretion and osmoregulation and
paired appendages which may be fins or
limbs.

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