Chapter 3 Vocabulary Cards on Brainscape Flashcards
classify
gruop thing based on the features they share
phylum
sudbivision of a kindom plural is phyla
genus
A gruop of living things that inccludes separte species
species
a group of organisms that can breed with each other to produce offspring like themselves
scientific name
the name given to each specie consisting of its geuns and its specis label
vetebrate
an animal with a back bones
cartilage
a soft material fuond in vertebrate skeletons
vertebra
one of the bones or block of cartilage that make up a backbones
gill
A stucture used by some animals to breatha in water
swim bladder
a gas filled organ that alows a bony fish to move up and down in the water
amphibian
A vertebrate that lives at fist the water and then on land
metamorphosis
A major chang in from that occurs as some animals delop into adults
reptile
An egg laying vertebrate that breathes with lungs
cold blooede
having a body temperature that changs with temperature of surroundings
warm blooded
having a body temperature that stays the same
mammary gland
a milk proding stucture on the chest or abodmen of a mammal
invertabrate
an animal that does not have a backbone
cnidarian
an invertebrate animak that include jellfish corel and hydras
radial
an arrangement of body parts that resmbles of spoke on a wheel
tentacle
An armilk body part in invrtebrates that is uesd for capturing prey
flatworm
a simple worm that is flat and thin
bilateral symmerty
a body plan that consists of let and right havls that are the same
ruondworn
A worm with a smooth round body and pointed ends
segmented worm
A wrom whose body is dived into scetions such as earthwrom or leeches
mollusk
An invertbrats dived into three parts
artropod
a member of the lagset goup of invertbrats which include inscect
molting
the process by which an arthropod sheds its extrnal skeleton
crustacean
a class of artropod that includes spiders scorpions mites and ticks
Arachined
A class of arthropod that includ crad and lodsters and crayfish scopin mites and sow bugs
complete metamorphosis
chang in from during devlpoment in which eariler stages look like the aduilt
incomplete metamorphsis
changes in form during develpment in which aerliar stage look like the addult
pupa
A stage in the devplment of some inscet that leads to the adult stage
tube foot
A small stcture used by echinoderms for movment