phylum

Neurospora crassa

...spora crassa is a type of red bread mold of the phylum Ascomycota . The genus name, meaning "nerve spore" refers to the characteristic striations on the spores that resemble axons . N. crassa is notable for its use as a model organism in science because it is easy to grow and has a haploid ...

Nervous system

...mechanical response.The worms and flukes of the phylum platyhelminthes possess a network of nerves that operates like a more conventional nervous system, but lack a brain. Annelid worms and tunicates have a primitive brain called a ganglionic mass, which is a bundle of several nerves. Based in p...

Animal

...imals are sometimes called diploblastic. The tiny phylum Placozoa is similar, but individuals do not have...certain. Platyzoa The Platyzoa include the phylum Platyhelminthes , the flatworms. These were originally considered some of the most primitive Bilat...

Ernst Haeckel

...lso proposed many now ubiquitous terms including " phylum " and " ecology ." His chief interests lay in evolution and life development processes in general, including development of nonrandom form, which culminated in the beautifully illustrated Kunstformen der Natur ( Art forms of nature ). Haeckel's...

Drosophila

...female fruit flies. Drosophila is part of the phylum Arthropoda , a phylum of segmented animals with paired, jointed appendages and a hard exoskeleton made of chitin . They h...

Animal

...imals are sometimes called diploblastic. The tiny phylum Placozoa is similar, but individuals do not have...certain. Platyzoa The Platyzoa include the phylum Platyhelminthes , the flatworms. These were originally considered some of the most primitive Bilat...