Biology Vocab

Question 1

Amphibian

Answer 1

A cold-blooded, smooth-skinned vertebrate. Lives on land and in the water.

Question 2

Annelid

Answer 2

elongated, cylindrical, segmented body.

Question 3

Arthropods

Answer 3

A large division of Articulata, have joint legs.

Question 4

Arachnid

Answer 4

Characterized by pairs of segmented legs and a body that is divided into two regions, the cephalothorax and the abdomen.

Question 5

Aves

Answer 5

Class of vertebrates that contains the birds

Question 6

Cephalopods

Answer 6

Highest class of Mollusca. Had a head and sensory organs at one end.

Question 7

Chondrichthyes

Answer 7

Fish with skeletons made of cartilage.

Question 8

Chordate

Answer 8

Has a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits

Question 9

Cnidarians

Answer 9

Animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures

Question 10

Crustacean

Answer 10

have a segmented body, a chitinous exoskeleton, and paired, jointed limbs.

Question 11

Echinoderm

Answer 11

have an internal calcareous skeleton and often covered with spines

Question 12

Hominid

Answer 12

of the primate family

Question 13

Ichthyology

Answer 13

branch of zoology that studies fish

Question 14

Insects

Answer 14

air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts head, thorax, and abdomen

Question 15

Mammal

Answer 15

characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands

Question 16

Marsupial

Answer 16

nonplacental mammals

Question 17

Mollusca

Answer 17

invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

Question 18

Osteichthyes

Answer 18

class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage

Question 19

Placental Mammal

Answer 19

mammals having a placenta

Question 20

Primate

Answer 20

characterized by refined development of the hands and feet, a shortened snout, and a large brain.

Question 21

Reptile

Answer 21

cold-blooded, usually egg-laying vertebrates, they have an external covering of scales or horny plates

Question 22

Drosophilia

Answer 22

fruit flies used for lab research.

Question 23

Angiosperm

Answer 23

A plant whose ovules are enclosed in an ovary had flowers.

Question 24

Bryophyte

Answer 24

have stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores included mosses

Question 25

Eudicot

Answer 25

monophyletic group of flowering plants

Question 26

Gymnosperm

Answer 26

seed-bearing plants have cones

Question 27

Monocots

Answer 27

flowering plants with one seed leaf

Question 28

Pterophyte

Answer 28

seedless, vascular plants.Fern

Question 29

Ascomycota

Answer 29

a sac fungi

Question 30

Basidiomycota

Answer 30

spores borne on a basidium

Question 31

Archaebacteria

Answer 31

genetically distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes, and often inhabiting extreme environmental conditions.

Question 32

Eubacteria

Answer 32

a large group of bacteria characterized by a rigid cell wall

Question 33

Ciliophora (Ciliates)

Answer 33

class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle

Question 34

Amoebozoa

Answer 34

supergroup of Eukaryotes that unifies lobose amoebae, pelobionts, entamoebids, and slime molds

Question 35

Euglenozoa

Answer 35

monophyletic group consisting of single-celled flagellates

Question 36

Dinoflagellates➿

Answer 36

have two flagella and a cellulose covering

Question 37

Algae

Answer 37

aquatic, eukaryotic, photosynthetic organisms