Invertebrates Flashcards
A place where food passes through
Gut
It is a group of animals that do have a backbone
Vertebrates
It is a group of animals that don’t have a backbone.
Invertebrates
It is a type of animal
Sponges
a person or thing that eats or uses something
Consumer
A noncancerous lump, often on the tendons or joints of wrists and hands
Ganglion
refers to the main body cavity in most multicellular animals and is positioned inside the body to surround and contain the digestive tract and other organs
Coelom
can be divided into two equal halves.
Bilateral Symmetry
arrangement of parts of an organism around a single main axis, so that the organism can be divided into similar halves by any plane that contains the main axis. The body plans of echinoderms, ctenophores, cnidarians, and many sponges and sea anemones
Radial Symmetry
lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry
Asymmetry
Cnidarian is a phylum containing over 10,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic environments: they are predominantly marine species. Their distinguishing feature is cnidocytes, specialized cells that they use mainly for capturing prey.
Cnidarians
The flatworms, or Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.
Flatworms
roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a very broad range of environments
Roundworms
the large phylum of invertebrate animals known as the Mollusca. Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized
Mollusks
Blood is pumped by a heart into the body cavities, where tissues are surrounded by the blood.
Open circulatory system