Animal Kingdom Flashcards

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Vertebrates

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animals that have a backbone

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Invertebrates

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animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column

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Consumer

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studies interactions among consumers, businesses, and government in order to advance the well-being of consumers, families, and communities.

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Ganglion

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lumps that most commonly develop in the wrist

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Gut

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the passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus.

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Coelom

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the body cavity in metazoans, located between the intestinal canal and the body wall.

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Bilateral Symmetry

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the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.

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Radial Symmetry

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symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower.

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Asymmetry

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lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.

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Sponges

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a basal animal clade as a sister of the Diploblasts.

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Cnidarians

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an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Cnidaria, which comprises the coelenterates.

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Flatworms

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a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.

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Roundworms

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constitute the phylum Nematoda, with plant-parasitic nematodes also known as eelworms

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Mollusks

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the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda

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Open circulatory system

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systems where blood, rather than being sealed tight in arteries and veins, suffuses the body

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Closed circulatory system

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blood is contained inside blood vessels, circulating unidirectionally

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Annelid worms

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as the ringed worms or segmented worms, are a large phylum

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Exoskeleton

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the rigid or articulated envelope that supports and protects the soft tissues of certain animals

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Compound eye

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a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans.

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Antenna

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the interface between radio waves propagating through space

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Metamorphosis

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the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.

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Endoskeleton

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an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.

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Water vascular system

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a network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels.