kingdoms Flashcards
animal with a backbone
vertebrate
animal without a back bone
invertebrate
a mass of nerve cells
ganglion
a digestive tract
gut
body cavity that contains internal organs
colem
the two sides of its body mirror each other
bilateral symmetry
body is organized around a center
radical symmetry
its body is not organized around a center
Asymmetry
a soft porpous substance originally consisting of the fiberus skeleton of an invertebrate
sponges
an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum cndaria
cnidarians
a worm of a phylum such as tapeworms
flatworms
a parasite found in animals intestines
round worms
consisting of snails slugs and octopuses that are invertebrates
Mollusks
organism that obtains food by feeding on other organisms
consumer
pump blood into a hemocoel with the blood
Open circulatory system