Annelida

By: Omar Abdulkader,Marcus Bray

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Examples:

• Polychaets (Christmas Tree Worm) Oligochaetes (Earth Worm)

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Body Symmetry

• Bilateral Symmetry

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Body Cavity

• Coelom is present, and is separated by septum.

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Nervous System

• Cerebral Ganglia: A brain like pair of cerebral ganglia above and in front of pharynx near mouth.

• Nerve cords that run the length of animal.

• Ring of nerves around pharynx connects to a subpharyngealganglion, where fused pair of nerve cords run.

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Circulatory System

• A network of vessels (closed).

• Dorsal and Ventral Vessel connected by segmental pairs of vessels.

• Dorsal Vessel + 5 pairs of vessels that circle esophagus are muscular and pump blood through circulatory system.

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Digestive System

• One long intestine that runs length of animal (One-way).

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Excretory System

• Metanephridium: excretory tubes with ciliated funnels called nephrostomes

• Remove waste from the blood and coelomic fluid through exterior pores.

• Each segment of the worm has a pair of metanephridium.

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Locomotion

• All annelids have a two layer system of muscle. Longitudinal muscle surrounded by circular muscle.

• Contraction of these muscle against each other and the coelomic fluid cause the organism to move.

• Most annelids have chaetae which are bristles that provide traction for burrowing.

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Skeletal Type

• No true skeleton

• Instead muscles work against the non-compressible fluid of the coelom. (hydrostatic skeleton)

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Sensory Structures

• No specialized sensory structures other than nervous system

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Reproduction

• Annelids are hermaphrodites meaning they have both sperm an eggs

• Sexual: Annelids reproduce sexually by aliging themselves in order to exchange sperm. Then an organ called the clitellum creates a cocoon which picks up the sperm as well as and egg and deposits the fertilized egg in the soil.

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Gas Exchange

• Skin functions as respiratory organ

• Oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in skin and oxygen is transferred to tiny blood vessel in epidermis.

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Unique Features/Facts

• Leeches are used in medicine for blood letting

• Earthworms are beneficial to famrers because they till the earth and the soil a good texture

Quiz

1. What bristle-like structures do some annelids use to burrow?

2. What is the center of an annelid’s nervous system?

3. What functions as a hydrostatic skeleton in an annelid?

4. How does and annelid pump blood through its body?

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Answers

1. Chaetae

2. Cerebral Ganglia

3. Coelom fluid

4. By utilizing the muscles in the dorsal vessel and the five pairs of vessels that circle the esophogaus.

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