Invertebrate Flashcards

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an animal that has a backbone

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Vertebrates

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an animal that does not have a backbone

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Invertebrates

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3
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an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter

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Consumer

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4
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a mass of nerve cells

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Ganglion

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5
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the digestive tract

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Gut

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a body cavity that contains internal organs

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Coclom

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

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Radial Symmetry

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lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.

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Asymmetry

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are the basal most clade of animals of the phylum Porifera (/pɒˈrɪfərə/; meaning “pore bearer”. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells.

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Sponge

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any invertebrate animal, as a hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone, or coral, considered as belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, characterized by the specialized stinging structures in the tentacles surrounding the mouth; a coelenterate. adjective. 2. belonging or pertaining to the Cnidaria. Origin of cnidarian Expand.

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Cnidarians

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any parasitic or free-living invertebrate of the phylum Platyhelminthes, including planarians, flukes, and tapeworms, having a flattened body with no circulatory system and only one opening to the intestine. flatworm in Medicine Expand. flatworm flat·worm

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flatworms

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constitute the phylum Nematoda

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roundworms

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The molluscs compose the large phylum of invertebrate animals known as the Mollusca

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Mollusks

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15
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a circulatory system in which the circulatory fluid is not contained entirely within vessels

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Open circulatory system

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16
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a circulatory system which the heart circulates blood through a network of vessels that for a closed loop

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Closed circulatory system

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are a large phylum, with over 17,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.

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Annelid worms

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a hard, external, structure

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Exoskeleton

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an eye composed of many light detectors

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Compound Eye

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a feeler that that is on the head of an interaterb such as a crustacean or an an insect and that senses touch taste or smell

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Antenna

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a phase in the life cycle of many animals during which a rapid change from immature from an organism to the audulte form

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Metamorphosis

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an internal skeleton made of bones and cartilage

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Endoskeleton

23
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a system of canals filled with a watery fluid that circulates throughout the body of an echinoderm

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Water vascular system