Invertebrates Flashcards

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Porifera

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An animal phylum comprising the sponges

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Cnidaria

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Any Invertebrate animal

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Annelida

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Segmented worm

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Hydroid

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A coelenterate of an order that includes the hydras

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Jellyfish

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A free swimming marine coelenterate with a jelly like bell or saucer shaped body that is typically transparent and has stinging tentacles around the edge

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Platyhelminthes

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A phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft usually flattened body compromising the flatworms

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Nematoda

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A class of worms

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Pinworms

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A small nematode worm that is an internal parasite of vertebrates

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Tapeworms

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Parasitic flat worm the adult of which lives in the intestine of a human and other vertebrates

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Cephalopods

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An active predatory mollusk

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Gastropods

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snail slug or whelk

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Coelomate

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Fluid filled body cavity called a coelom with complete lining

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Acoelomate

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A invertebrate lacking a coelom

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Radial Symmetry

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Symmetry around a central axis

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Asymmetry

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Lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something lack of symmetry

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Bilateral symmetry

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Divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane