echinoderm Flashcards

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a marine invertebrate

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echinoderm

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an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.

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endoskeleton

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a defensive organ like a minute pincer present in large numbers on an echinoderm.

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Pedicellariae

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an essential part of the circulation system in echinoderm

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Madreporite

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forming part of the water-vascular system, that extend from the stone canal

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Radial canal

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the circular water tube that surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms

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Ring canal

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7
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allow them to move and guide themselves

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Arm / Ray

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

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Radial Symmetry

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

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Bilateral Symmetry

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10
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a network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels

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Water Vascular System

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s a term typically used in the context of anatomical parts of the phylum Echinodermata or class Asteroidea and Edrioasteroidea

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Ambulacral Groove

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a very small bone, especially one of those in the middle ear.

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Ossicles

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a number of small outpocketings

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Pyloric Caecum

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sphincter, or valve, is a strong ring of smooth muscle at the end of the pyloric canal which lets food pass from the stomach to the duodenum

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Pyloric Stomach-

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occupies much of the posterior aspect of the head and the anterior thoracic body cavity.

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Cardiac Stomach

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16
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the dialations of the semicircular canals of the ear

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Ampullae

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an organ that produces gametes; a testis or ovary

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Gonads

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having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid

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Central Disc

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each of a large number of small, flexible, hollow appendages protruding through the ambulacra, used either for locomotion or for collecting food and operated by hydraulic pressure within the water-vascular system

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Tube Feet

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is a male organism’s sperm fertilizing a female organism’s egg outside of the female’s body

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External Fertilization

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the action or process of regenerating or being regenerated, in particular the formation of new animal or plant tissue.

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Regeneration

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are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea

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Sea star

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are echinoderms in the class Ophiuroidea closely related to starfish

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Brittle star

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archaically called sea hedgehogs, are small, spiny, globular animals

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Sea urchin

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extremely flattened, burrowing sea urchins

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Sand dollar-

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marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea

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Sea lilies

27
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n echinoderm with a small disklike body, long feathery arms for feeding and movement, and short appendages for grasping the surface

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Feather stars

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an echinoderm that has a thick, wormlike body with tentacles around the mouth

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Sea cucumbers

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are small, circular animals related to sea stars. … Sea daisies have no arms, but the circle is rimmed with flat spines that look like daisy petals

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Sea daisies