intvertebrate Flashcards
Animals with backbones
verbrates
an animal that does not have a backbone
invertabrate
an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter
consumer
a mass of nerve cells
ganglion
the digestive tract
gut
a body cavity that contains the internal organ
coelom
a circulatory system in which the circulartory fluid is not contained entirely within vessels
open circulatory system
a circulatory systen in which the haert circulates blood through a network of blood through a network of blood vessels that form a closed loop
closed circulatory system
the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.
Bilateral Symmetry
symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower.
Radial Symmetry
ack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
Asymmetry
a primitive sedentary aquatic invertebrate with a soft porous body that is typically supported by a framework of fibers or calcareous or glassy spicules. Sponges draw in a current of water to extract nutrients and oxygen.
Sponges
an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Cnidaria, which comprises the coelenterates.
Cnidarians
a worm of a phylum which includes the planarians together with the parasitic flukes and tapeworms. They are distinguished by having a simple flattened body which lacks blood vessels, and a digestive tract which, if present, has a single opening.
Flatworms
a nematode, especially a parasitic one found in the intestines of mammals.
Roundworms