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1
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Molluscan body plan consists of two major parts

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head-foot and visceral mass

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Head-foot

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Part of body that contains mouth with its sensory organs and a foot

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3
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Dorsal visceral mass

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contains other organ systems

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Mantle

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tissue found in molluscs responsible for forming shell, locomotion and gas exchange

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Radula

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Ribbon of tissue that contains teeth

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Chittons

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Flattened body covered by eight shell plates

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Tusk Shells

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Open shell with foot protruding from larger opening, water enters and exits through smaller opening bury themselves in sediments with foot

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Univalve

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shell composed of a single piece

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Whorl

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Turn of a gastropod shell around a central axis

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Aperature

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Opening to gastropod shell

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operculum

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Structure gastropods have for closing their aperature

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12
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Bulb gland

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gland located near the mouth of cone snails that produce venom

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13
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Deposit feeders

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animals that feed on organic material that mixes with mineral deposits

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14
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Nudibranchs

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Marine gastropods that lack a shell

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Cerata

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prjections found on nudibranchs that increase the surface area available for gas exchnge

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Bivalves

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Molluscs that have two hinged shells covering their body

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Umbo

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Area around hinge, oldest part of shell

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Adductor muscles

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Closes the two valves of molluscs, wen relaxed they open

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Palps

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structure near bivalves mouth that form food mass and move to mouth

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Byssal Thread

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tough threads composed of protein (how Mussels attach)

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Cephalopods

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octopus and squid (“head”“footed”) foot modified into head like structure

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Siphuncle

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cord tissue that runs through the chambers of a nautiloid and removes seawater from new chambers as they form

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Chromatophores

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pigment containing cells that function in color changes (Cephalopods)

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Spermatophore

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package of sperm

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Oviduct

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tube that carries eggs to outside of body

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Supporting an animals body using fluid contained in the body

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Hydrostatic skeleton

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27
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Small bristles in the skin of some annelids

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Setae; locomotion, digging, anchorage and defense

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Polychaetes that are active movers

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Errant Polychaetes

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Sessile polychaetes

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Sedentry Polychaetes

30
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Animals that ingest both organic and mineral particles and then digest organic material

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Nonselective deposit feeders

31
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masses of organic material and mineral particles that are defecated by deposit feeders

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Casting or fecal casts

32
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Animals that seperate organic material from minerals and then ingest only the organic material

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Selective Deposit Feeders

33
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Type of reproduction in some polychaetes that involves the production of a reproductive individual that is adapted for a free swimming existance

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Epitoky

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Behaviour that bring sexually mature individuals together

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Swarming

35
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Chemical releases by female epitokes that stimulate males to shed sperm

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Fertilizin

36
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solitary nonsegmented worms

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Sipunculids

37
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animals with jointed appendages

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Arthropods

38
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hard exterior skeleton

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Exoskeleton

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Tough polysacharide found in the exoskeltons of Arthropods

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Chitin

40
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Process where Arthropods shed old exoskeleton and form a new one

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Molting

41
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Appendages found in Chelicerates that are modified for feeding

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Chelicera

42
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Body region composed of a fused head and thorax

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Cephalothorax

43
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body region of an animal that corresponds to the belly

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Abdomen

44
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Long spike used by horseshoe crab for steering and defense

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Telson

45
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Sensory sstructures of arthropods

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Palps

46
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Arthropods that have appendages called mandibles fro chewing food

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Mandibulates

47
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Arthropod appendages modified for swimming

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Swimmerets

48
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Claws are

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Chelipeds

49
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Anterior pair of appendages in male decapods which are adapted for delivering spermatophores to females

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Copulatory pleopods

50
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Planktonic larval stage of some crabs and mantis shrimp

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Zoea

51
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Planktonic larval stage of some shrimp and barnacles

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Nauplius

52
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Bioluminescent organs found in krill

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Photophores

53
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large masses or krill

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Swarms

54
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Special appendages found in amphipods that are used for feeding

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Gnathopods

55
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Feathery appendages found in barnacles that function in feeding

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Cirripeds

56
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Structures on the heads of arrow worms used to catch prey

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Grasping spines

57
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INternal skeleton

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Endoskeleton

58
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Plates of calcium carbonate that make up enchinoderm endoskeleton

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Ossicles

59
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pincher like structures found on skin of echinoderms

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Pedicellariae

60
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System of tubes found in echinoderms that circulate water through body and functions in locomotion, feeding, gas exchange and excretion

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Water vascular system

61
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Site at which water enters the water vascular system of echinoderms

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madreporite

62
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Tube feet

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Podia

63
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Side opposite the mouth in an echinoderm

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Aboral surface

64
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To cast off a body part in defense (sea stars)

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Autotomize

65
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Hard endoskeleton of an echinoid echinoderms

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