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Animal Kingdom: Cellular Level Tissue Level Organ Level Organ System Level
Animal Kingdom: Cellular Level Tissue Level Organ Level Organ System Level
POINTS TO REMEMBER :
Levels of organization :
Cellular level
Tissue level
Organ level
Circulatory System :
Open type: Blood pumped out through heart. Cells and tissues are directly bathed in it.
Closed type: Blood is circulated through vessels.
Symmetry :
Asymmetrical: Cannot be divided into equal halves through median plane. e.g., Sponges.
Radial symmetry: Any plane passing through central axis can divide organism into equal halves.
e.g., Hydra.
Bilateral symmetry: Only one plane can divide the organism into equal halves. e.g., Annelids and
Arthropods.
Diploblastic: Cells arranged in two embryonic layers i.e. external ectoderm and internal endoderm.
(Mesoglea may be present in between ectoderm and endoderm) e.g., Coelenterates. (Cnidarians)
Triploblastic: Three layers present in developing embryo i.e., ectoderm, endoderm and
mesoderm. e.g., Chordates.
Metamerism: If body is externally and internally divided into segments with serial repetition of at
least some organs then phenomenon is called metamerism.
e.g., Earthworm.
Notochord: Rod-like structure of mesodermal origin, formed during embryonic development on the
dorsal side. e.g., Chordates.
PHYLUM PORIFERA :
Food gathering, respiratory exchange and removal of wastes occur through water canal system.
Digestion intracellular.
Ostia (minute pores on body), spongocoel (body cavity) and osculum help in water transport.
They are lined bychoanocytes (collar cells).
Fertilization internal.
Development is indirect, with larval stage which metamorphoses to adult. e.g., Sycon, Euspongia.
PHYLUM COELENTERATA :
Sessile or free-swimming.
Diploblastic.
Blind sac type body plan, with one opening called hypostome.
Exhibit two body forms: polyp and medusa e.g., Hydra, Aurelia.
Alternation of generation between body forms called Metagenesis occurs in Obelia where Medusa
sexually reproduced and polyp asexually reproduced. e.g., Physalia, Adamsia.
PHYLUM CTENOPHORA :
Body has eight external rows of ciliated comb plates for locomotion.
External fertilization.
Indirect development
Bilaterally symmetrical,
Triploblastic
Acoelomate
PHYLUM ASCHELMINTHES :
Alimentary canal complete (has muscular pharynx), wastes removed through excretory pore.
Fertilisation internal.
PHYLUM ANNELIDA :
Aquatic annelid like Nereis has oar shaped parapodia for movement.
Nervous system consists of paired ganglia connected by lateral nerves to a double ventral nerve
cord.
Earthworm (Pheretima) and Leech (Hirudinaria) which are hermaphrodites (i.e., monoecious).
Fertilization is external
PHYLUM ARTHROPODA :
Are bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic and organ system level of organization, coelomate and
segmented body.
Mostly dioecious.
Fertilisation internal.
PHYLUM MOLLUSCA :
Terrestrial or aquatic.
Are bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic and organ system level of organization, coelomate.
Body divisible into head, muscular foot and visceral hump and is covered by a soft and spongy
layer of skin calledmantle.
Unsegmented body.
Head has sensory tentacles. Radula-file like rasping organ for feeding.
PHYLUM ECHINODERMATA :
PHYLUM HEMICHORDATA :
Respiration by gills
PHYLUM CHORDATA :
Heart is ventral.
Bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic, and coelomate with organ system level of organization.
SUB-PHYLA UROCHORDATA :
Notochord present only in tail of larval stage. e.g., Ascidia, Salpa, Doliolium.
SUB-PHYLA CEPHALOCHORDATA :
SUB-PHYLA VERTEBRATA :
Marine habit but migrates to fresh water for spawning and die after spawning.
Mostly predaceous.
Dioecious.
Fertilization internal.
Class 2 : Osteichthyes :
Bony endoskeleton.
Dioecious.
Sexually monomorphic.
Fertilization external.
Mostly oviparous
Development is indirect.
e.g., Hippocampus, Labeo, Catla, Betta.
Cloaca is the common chamber where alimentary, urinary and reproductive tracts open.
Sexes separate.
Class - 2: Reptilia
Body has dry and cornified skin and epidermal scales or scutes.
Poikilotherm.
Fertilization internal.
Presence of feathers and most cay fly except flightless bird like ostrich.
Endoskeleton bony with air cavities (pneumatic) and hollow bones to assist in flight.
Class- 4: Mammalia
Homoiothermous.
Respiration by lungs.
POINTS TO REMEMBER :
Types of Movement :
Amoeboid movement: This movement takes place in phagocytes where leucocytes and
macrophages migrate through tissue. It is affected by pseudopodia formed by the streaming of
protoplasm (as in amoeba)
Ciliary movement: These movements occur in internal organs which are lined by ciliary
epithelium.
Muscular Movement: This movement involves the muscle fibers, which have the ability to contract
and relax.
MUSCLES :
Properties of Muscle :
Excitability
Contractility
Extensibility
Elasticity
Types of Muscles :
They are striped appearance under the microscope and called Striated muscles.
They are under voluntary control of nervous system, hence called voluntary muscles.
Their activities are not under voluntary control of nervous system hence called
as involuntary muscles.
They assist in transport of food through digestive tract and gametes through the genital
tract.
Cardiac muscles
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Each organized skeletal muscle in our body is made of a number of muscle bundles
called fascicles held together by common fibrous covering called fascia.
Each muscle fibre is lined by the plasma membrane called sarcolemma, enclosing cytoplasm
called sarcoplasm.
The sarcoplasm contain endoplasmic reticulum, called sarcoplasmic reticulum is the store house
of calcium ion.
Muscle fibres contain a large number of parallelly arranged filaments in the sarcoplasm
called myofilaments ormyofibrils.
The arrangement of thick and thin filament gives the characteristic striated appearance.
The light bands contain only actin filaments and are called I-band or isotropic band.
The dark band called A or anisotropic band contains both actin and myosin.
In the centre of each I band is an elastic fibre called Z line which bisects it.
The thin filaments or actin are firmly attached with the Z line.
The thick filaments or myosin in the A band are also held together in the middle by a thin fibrous
membrane called M line.
The portion between two successive Z lines is considered as the functional unit of the muscle
called sarcomere.
Each A band contains two overlap zone of thick and thin filament called O band.
The central part of thick filament, not overlapped by thin filament is called H band.
A band = 2(O) + H.
Each actin filament is made of two F actins helically wound to each other.
Each F actin associated with another protein, tropomyosin also run throughout its length.
In the resting state a sub-unit of Troponin (Tn-T), masks the active binding sites on the thin
filaments for myosin.