Chapter 32

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Carnivore

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An animal whose diet consists predominately of meat. Most members of the mammalian taxon Carnivora are carnivores

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Herbivore

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An animal that eats primary plants and rarely or never eat meat

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Omnivore

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An animal whose diet regularly consists regularly included both meat and plants

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Predator

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Any organism that kills other organisms for food

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Parasite

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Any organism that loves on or in host species and that damages its host

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Endoparasite

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A parasite that lives inside the hosts body

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Ectoparasite

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A parasite that lives in the outer surface of its host’s body

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Exoskeleton

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A hard covering secreted on the outside of the body, used for body support, protection, and muscle attachment.

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Endoskeleton

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Bony and/or cartilaginous structures within the body that provides support. Examples are spicules of sponges

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Oviparous

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Producing eggs that are retained inside the body until they are ready to hatch

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Viviparous

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Producing live going that develop within the body of the mother before birth

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Ovoviviparous

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Producing eggs that are retained inside the body until they are ready to hatch

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Metamorphosis

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Transition from one developmental stage to another, such as from the larval to the adult form of an animal

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Larva

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An immature stage of a species in which the immature and adult stages have different body forms

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Juvenile

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An individual that has adult like morphology but is not sexually mature

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Holometabolous

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A type of metamorphosis in which the animal completely changed its form.

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Hemimetabolous

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A type of metamorphosis in which the animal increases in size from one stage to the next, but does not dramatically change its body form

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Polyp

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The immobile (sessile) stage in the life cycle of some cnidarians

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Colony

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An assemblage of individuals. May refer to an assemblage of semi-independent cells or to a breeding population of multicellular organisms

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Medusa

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The free floating stage in the life cycle of some cnidarians (jellyfish)

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Benthic

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Living at the bottom of an aquatic environment

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Spicule

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Stiff spike of silica or calcium carbonate found in the body of many sponges

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Cnidocyte

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A specialized stinging cell found in cnidarians (jellyfish) that is used in capturing prey