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Invertebrates Flashcards

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Vertebrates

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Animal that has a backbone

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Invertebrates

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Animals with no backbone

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Consumer

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an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter

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Ganglion

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a mass of nerve cells

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Gut

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the digestive tract

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Coelom

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a body cavity that contains the internal organs

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Bilateral Symmetry

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When 2 sides of the body mirror each side

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Radial symmetry

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A body organized around the center. Like spokes on a wheel

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Asymmetry

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You cannot draw a straight line through the middle to divide each side identical

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Sponges

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simplest invertebrates they have asymmetrical bodies and have no tissues, gut, or neurons

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Cnidarians

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Animals that have stinging cells

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Flatworms

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bilateral symmetry with 2 defined large eye spots even though they cannot see they can define light

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Roundworms

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bilateral symmetry they have a simple nervous system which consists of a ring of ganglia

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Mollusks

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Snails,slugs,clams, oysters,squids, octopuses

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Open circulatory System

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

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Closed circulatory system

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a circulatory system in which the heart circulates blood through a network of blood vessels that form a closed loop

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Aneelid worms

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any worms of the phylum annelida

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exoskelition

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a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals

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compund eye

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an eye consisting of an array of numerous small visual units

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anteena

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either a pair of long thin sensory appendages on the heads of insects

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metamorphisis

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the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult

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endoskelition

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an interal skeleton such as a bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates

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water vascular system

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a network of water vessels in the body

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