Animal Kingdom Flashcards

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Vertebrate

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An animal with a backbone

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Invertebrate

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An animal without a backbone

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Consumer

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An organism that eats other organisms or organic matter

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Ganglion

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A structure containing a number of nerve cell bodies

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Gut

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The stomach

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Coelom

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The body cavity between the intestinal canal and the body wall

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Bilateral Symmetry

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The property of being divisible into two symmetrical halves

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Radial Symmetry

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Symmetry around a central axis

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Asymmetry

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Having a disproportional arrangement of parts

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Sponges

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multicellular organism that’s body is full of pores

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Cndarians

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An aquatic invertebrate animal that stings

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Flatworms

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A group of soft bodied, flat invertebrates

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Roundworms

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A parasitic nematode found in the intestines of animals

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Mollusks

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An invertebrate that has a shell

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Open Circulatory System

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When an animal’s blood is not enclosed in blood vessels

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Closed Circulatory System

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When an animal’s blood is enclosed in blood vessels