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|                                                      EXAMINATION
  & EXERCISES #1 Invertebrate
  Zoology:  Protozoa -- Platyhelminthes (Contact)   
   _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _    1. 
  Briefly describe the structure and the function of each of the
  following structures in an animal:       
  a.  trichocyst         
  b.  siphonoglyph         
  c.  seminal vesicle         
  d.  nyoneme         
  e.  statocyst         
  f.  vitellaria         
  g.  colloblast         
  h.  cirrus in Protozoa         
  i.  cirrus in Platyhelminthes     2. 
  Define each of the following terms and name the phylum, class or other
  group where it usually occurs:       
  a.  strobilization        b.
  conjugation       
  c.  polymorphism       
  d.  entolecithal eggs        e. 
  holophytic nutrition   3. 
  Give two ways of distinguishing between each of the following:       
  a.  cross-sections of a
  hydrozoan polyp and anthozoan polyp.       
  b.  a colorless flagellate and
  a ciliate.       
  c.  cross-sections of sycon and
  ascon sponges.       
  d.  cross-sections of a
  turbellarian and a cestode.       
  e.  a scyphozoan medusa and a
  hydrozoan medusa.   4. 
  Name the class or lower taxonomic groups of Protozoa where each of the
  following most generally occurs:        a.  tentacles
  ___________________________________________________________________________.        b. 
  reticulopidoa
  _______________________________________________________________________.       
  c.  holophytic nutrition
  __________________________________________________________________.       
  d.  two kinds of nuclei
  __________________________________________________________________.        e.  axopodia
  __________________________________________________________________________.        f. 
  parasitism _________________________________________________________________________.   5. 
  Name two animals, each from a different phylum having the following
  type of skeleton, and give the phylum and class for each:                               Animal                                  Phylum                                     Class     
  Calcareous          
  a.
  ________________________________________________________________________.            
  b.
  ________________________________________________________________________.         
  Siliceous          
  a.
  ________________________________________________________________________.            
  b.
  ________________________________________________________________________.         
  Proteinaceous          
  a. ________________________________________________________________________.            
  b.
  ________________________________________________________________________.     6. 
  Identify the following as to phylum and/or class:        a.  cercaria          b. 
  planula         
  c.  sporozoite          d. 
  cysticercus          e. 
  amphiblastula          f. 
  miracidium     7. 
  Fill in all blanks with X or O to indicate whether or not the items
  listed in the column at the left occur in the varius           
  groups.   
   
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