Question

The clade Ecdysozoa includes ________ phyla, of which you will be observing only two in this week's lab.

Answer 1

The clade Ecdysozoa includes 8 phyla, of which you will be observing only two in this week's lab.

What is Ecdysozoa?

• Arthropoda (insects, chelicerata, crustaceans, and myriapods), Nematoda, and a few other minor phyla are all included in the group of protostome creatures known as Ecdysozoa (/kdsozo/).
• Aguinaldo etal. provided the initial definition of them in 1997, largely based on phylogenetic trees generated with the use of 18S ribosomal RNA genes.
• The Ecdysozoa were firmly supported as a clade in a sizable study conducted in 2008 by Dunn etal.
• A clade is a group made up of all the descendants of a common ancestor.
• All animals that grow by ecdysis, or moulting their cuticle, are included in this group, which is also supported by morphological characteristics.

What is phyla?

• A phylum is a taxonomic rank or degree of classification in biology that comes before a kingdom and after a class (/falm/; plural: phyla).
• Phylum and division are similar terms according to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungus, and plants, but division has historically been used in botany instead of phylum.
• Depending on definitions, there are between 31 and 14 phyla in the plant kingdom Plantae, 8 phyla in the fungus kingdom Fungi, and roughly 31 phyla in the animal kingdom Animalia.
• The links between phyla, which are housed in more expansive clades like Ecdysozoa and Embryophyta, are currently being revealed via phylogenetic studies.

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