Ch.24.1 Intro To Animals
Ch.24.1 Intro To Animals
1 Introduction to Animals
Learning Objectives
▪ 24.1.1 Describe characteristics that all animals share.
▪ 24.1.2 Explain the essential functions that animals must
perform to survive.
▪ 24.1.3 Identify features of animal body plans.
Vocabulary
▪ Invertebrate – Animal that lacks a backbone, or vertebral
column
▪ Vertebrate – Animal that has a backbone
▪ Chordate – Animal that has for at least one stage of its
life; a dorsal, hollow nerve chord, a notochord, a tail that
extends beyond the anus, and pharyngeal pouches
▪ Feedback inhibition – Process in which a stimulus
produces a response that opposes the original stimulus;
also called negative feedback
▪ Heterotrophic- A heterotroph is an organism that cannot
produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other
animals or plants. Plants are Autotrophs (which means
they produce their own food)
Vocabulary
▪ Radial symmetry – Body plan in which any number of
imaginary planes drawn through the center of the body
could divide it into equal halves
▪ Bilateral symmetry – body plan in which a single
imaginary line can divide the body into left and right sides
that are mirror images of each other
▪ Zygote – A fertilized egg
▪ Coelom – Body cavity lined with mesoderm
▪ Cephalization – Concentration of sense organs and
nerve cells at the anterior end of an animal
24.1.1: Describe characteristics that all animals share.
• Or vertebral
column.
• More than
90% of
animals are
invertebrates
What are Chordates?
All chordates exhibit four characteristics during at least one
stage of life:
• Dorsal, hollow, nerve cord
• Notochord
Nerve cord
• Tail that extends beyond anus
• Pharyngeal pouches
Tail
• Maintain
homeostasis
• Gather and respond
to information
• Obtain and distribute
oxygen and nutrients
• Collect and eliminate
carbon dioxide and
other wastes
REVISION
Q) What four characteristics do all animals share?
1.Multicellular,
2.Heterotrophic,
3.Eukaryotic,
4.Cells do not have
cell walls.
Invertebrates Chordates
Dorsal side
Ventral
side
Anterior end