Animal Kingdom — Class 11 CBSE Biology revision notes
A 4-page visual revision sheet for Animal Kingdom, written for Class 11 CBSE Biology. Formulas, diagrams and the traps that cost marks, laid out to be read the night before rather than the term before. Free, and it opens inside CapCompass.
Page 1 as PDF
Animal Kingdom in one look
phylum by body plan, symmetry and coelom, never by looks
Levels of organisation
- cellular level: cells work as a loose aggregate, little coordination, seen only in Porifera
- tissue level: similar cells form true tissues with division of labour, first seen in Cnidaria
- organ level: tissues combine into organs performing a specific function, seen from Platyhelminthes onward
- organ system level: organs work as one system, open or closed, seen from Aschelminthes onward
Other criteria for classification
- Symmetry: asymmetrical, radial or bilateral, the body plan around a centre or a plane
- Germ layers: diploblastic (two layers, no true mesoderm) or triploblastic (three, with a true mesoderm)
- Coelom: acoelomate (no cavity), pseudocoelomate (cavity not fully mesoderm-lined) or coelomate (fully lined)
- Segmentation: metameric segmentation repeats similar body units along the main axis, from Annelida onward
- Notochord: a supportive rod along the back, present at some stage in chordates, absent in non-chordates
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What this Animal Kingdom sheet covers
- Levels of organisation
- Other criteria for classification
- Symmetry
- Germ layers
- Coelom
- Segmentation
- Notochord
- Animal cells, no wall
- Non-chordate phyla, part one
- Non-chordate phyla, part two
- Aschelminthes
- Annelida
- Arthropoda
- Mollusca
- Echinodermata
- Hemichordata and the chordate line
- Chordata vs Non-chordata
- Chordata
- Non-chordata
- Vertebrate classes, one line each
- Three chordate subphyla
- Classifying from features alone
- Symbols
- Traps that cost marks
- Tricks that save time
How CapCompass uses this sheet
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