What is an animal?
Animals are multicellular, heterotrophic eukaryotes with tissues that develop from embryonic layers.
How do animals differ from plants?
Animals lack cell walls and have have collagen as their most abundant protein. Animals have nerve and muscle cells. Animals have three distinct cell junc- tions: tight junctions, desmosomes, and gap junctions.
Early Embryonic Development
A Traditional View of Animal Diversity Based on Body-Plan Grades
Body Symmetry in Animals
Body Plans of the Bilateria
Protostomes vs. Deuterostomes
Animal Phylogeny Based on Sequencing of SSU-rRNA
Figure 47.6x Sea urchin development, from single cell to larva
Cleavage in an echinoderm (sea urchin) embryo
Cleavage in a frog embryo
Cross section of a frog blastula
Gastrulation in a frog embryo