Animal Kingdom Flashcards

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What is plankton

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Plankton is found in the ocean and is it a very important component of the oceans food web

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What is a Protozoa Phylum

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Protist phylum belong to the plant kingdom rather than the animal kingdom are unicellular and aquatic

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What is the protist phylum

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Can cause diseases in humans such as malaria and African sleeping sickness some common examples of protists are the plasmodium and trypanosoma

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What is the porifera phylum

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Contains colorful aquatic animals such as sponges

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What are sponges

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Once believed to be a plant because they cannot move attach themselves to rocks and remove micro organisms such as plankton from water by a process called filter feeding their body contains numerous holes or pours through which water enters and exits

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Filter feeding

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Removing organisms such as plankton from water

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Pore bearing

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Porifera

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Coelenterate phylum

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Often called cniderian phylum can be as small as to mm or as large as two m have tentacles and are more complex than sponges and represent an important step in evolution they contain a digestive also possess nerves and sense receptors ex jellyfish

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Tentacles

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They are covered with stinging cells that can paralyze their prey

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Digestive cavity

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A place where pray is thoroughly broken apart after eating found in cniderian phylum (coelenterate)

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Platyhelminthes phylum

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Flatworm phylum bilateral symmetry and have few advanced organ systems planaria tapeworms flukes

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Bilateral symmetry

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Organism divided into equivalent halves have head an tail

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Organ system

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Several organs working together to preform function

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Aschelminthes phylum

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Roundworm phylum first to evolve coelom parasites that are pathogenic ascaris pinworms hookworms trichina

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Roundworm phylum

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Aschelminthes phylum

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Flatworm phylum

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Platyhelminthes phylum

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Young tapeworms

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Found in pigs enter body in uncooked pork

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Adult tapeworms

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Several feet in length inside human intestines absorb nutrients from host

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Pinworms

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Attach to wall of small intestine aschelminthes phylum

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Hookworms

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Attach to wall of small intestine roundworm phylum

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Annelida phylum

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Segmented worm phylum first to evolve bodies that divid into different sections earthworms clamworms and leeched

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Coelom

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Body cavity which organs are located

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Pathogenic

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Organism that can cause disease

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Segmented worm phylum

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Annelida phylum

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Arthropoda phylum

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Most populous animals in earth have exoskeletons and many appendages with joints can survive in almost any environment crabs crayfish spiders and insects

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Arthropod

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Joints and feet

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Mollusca phylum

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Very soft bodies and hard shell containing calcium has mantle few have an endoskeleton almost reach complexity of human organ system clams oysters snails octopus

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Mantle

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Blanket like organ creates the calcium containing shell

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Endoskeleton

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Shell inside body

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Echinodermata phylum

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Radial symmetry have 5 or more arms extending from center if body have endoskeleton composed of calcium with spines extending through body wall have water filled system starfish sea urchins sand dollars sea cucumbers

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Radial symmetry

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Where parts if body are arranged around a central axis allows animal ti move from all sides

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Hydraulic pressure

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Moves feet with water

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Chordata phylum

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Posses hollow nerve along their dorsal side all along body have notochord along body have pharyngeal pouches most complex fish amphibians reptiles birds mammals

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Notochord

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Hard solid structure composed of cartilage or bone that rubs length of body develops into all bones in exoskeleton

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Pharyngeal pouches

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In neck or pharynx where lungs or gills grow

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Vertebrates

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Contain backbone composed of cartilage or bone forms anchoring which muscles and bones attach which let them have great speed and strength