Animal Kingdom

Question 1

an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

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vertabrates

Question 2

an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc. The invertebrates constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom, comprising 95 percent of animal species and about 30 different phyla.

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invertabrates

Question 3

any organism that can’t make its own food

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consumer

Question 4

a structure containing a number of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.

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ganglion

Question 5

the stomach or belly

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gut

Question 6

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

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coelom

Question 7

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

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Bilateral Symmetry

Question 8

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

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Radial Symmetry

Question 9

lack or absence of symmetry

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Asymmetry

Question 10

a primitive sedentary aquatic invertebrate with a soft porous body that is typically supported by a framework of fibers or calcareous or glassy spicules. Sponges draw in a current of water to extract nutrients and oxygen.

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Sponges

Question 11

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

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Cnidarians

Question 12

a worm of a phylum which includes the planarians together with the parasitic flukes and tapeworms. They are distinguished by having a simple flattened body which lacks blood vessels, and a digestive tract which, if present, has a single opening.

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Flatworms

Question 13

a nematode, especially a parasitic one found in the intestines of mammals.

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Roundworms

Question 14

an invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses. They have a soft unsegmented body and live in aquatic or damp habitats, and most kinds have an external calcareous shell.

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Mollusks

Question 15

the blood is not enclosed in the blood vessels, but is pumped into a cavity called a hemocoel

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Open circulatory system

Question 16

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Blood can flow through vessels inside the body, such as arteries and veins

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Closed circulatory system

Question 17

a segmented worm of the phylum Annelida, such as an earthworm or leech.

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Annelid worms

Question 18

a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.

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Exoskeleton

Question 19

an eye consisting of an array of numerous small visual units, as found in insects and crustaceans.

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Compound eye

Question 20

either of a pair of long, thin sensory appendages on the heads of insects, crustaceans, and some other arthropods.

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Antenna

Question 21

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

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Metamorphosis

Question 22

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

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Endoskeleton

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Water vascular system