animal vocab

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

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

Question 2

invertebrates

Answer 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.

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

an organism that derives the organic compounds and energy it needs from the consumption of other organisms; a heterotroph.

Question 4

Ganglion

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Gut

Answer 5

the stomach or belly.

Question 6

Coelom

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Bilateral Symmetry

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Radial Symmetry

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Asymmetry

Answer 9

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