animal kingdom Flashcards
Vertebrates
an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone
Invertebrates
don’t have a backbone
Consumer
a person who purchases goods and services for personal use
Ganglion
a structure containing a number of nerve cell bodies
Gut
The gastrointestinal tract is an organ system within humans
Coelom
the body cavity in metazoans, located between the intestinal canal and the body wall
Bilateral Symmetry
the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.
Radial Symmetry
symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower
. Asymmetry
lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something
Sponges
Sponges the members of the phylum Porifera are a basal Metazoa clade as a sister of the Diploblasts
Cnidarians
an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Cnidaria which comprises the coelenterates
Flatworms
The flatworms flat worms Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes
Roundworms
The nematodes or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda
Mollusks
an invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails slugs mussels and octopuse
Open circulatory system
Open circulatory system pump blood into a hemocoel with the blood diffusing back to the circulatory system between cells