This document outlines the key features used to classify animals, including their cellular arrangement from the cell to organ system level, body symmetry, presence of a coelom, and characteristics of the digestive, circulatory, and reproductive systems. Cellular arrangement can be at the cell, tissue, organ, or organ system level, with examples like sponges at the cell level and annelids, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms, and chordates at the organ system level.
This document outlines the key features used to classify animals, including their cellular arrangement from the cell to organ system level, body symmetry, presence of a coelom, and characteristics of the digestive, circulatory, and reproductive systems. Cellular arrangement can be at the cell, tissue, organ, or organ system level, with examples like sponges at the cell level and annelids, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms, and chordates at the organ system level.
This document outlines the key features used to classify animals, including their cellular arrangement from the cell to organ system level, body symmetry, presence of a coelom, and characteristics of the digestive, circulatory, and reproductive systems. Cellular arrangement can be at the cell, tissue, organ, or organ system level, with examples like sponges at the cell level and annelids, arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms, and chordates at the organ system level.
Cellular arrangement (cell level or tissue level or organ level or
organ system level) Body symmetry (asymmetrical or radial symmetry or bilateral symmetry) Coelom (acoelomates or pseudocoelomates or coelomates) Digestive system Circulatory system Reproductive system
Cellular Arrangement:
Cellular level of organization: cells arranged as loose aggregates
EX: Porifera
Tissue level of organization: cells performing the same function form
tissues
EX: Coelenterates
Organ level of organization: tissues grouped together to form an
organ, which performs particular function
EX: Platyhelminthes
Organ system level of organization: a few organs coordinatively
perform a certain physiological function
EX: Annelids, Arthropods, Molluscs, Echinoderms and Chordates