Simple Invertabrate Flashcards

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Porifera

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pore bearer, includes sponges

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Cnidaria

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stinging structures in the tentacles surrounding the mouth. hydra, jelly fish

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Annelida

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various worms or worm like animals characterized by elongated, divided into ring like segments

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Hydroid

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noting or pertaining to that form of hydrozoan asexual and grows into branching colonies by budding

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Jellyfish

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free-swimming marine coelenterate that is the sexually reproducing form of a hydrozoan or scyphozoan and has a nearly transparent saucer-shaped body and extensible marginal tentacles studded with stinging cells

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Platyhelminthes

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worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms

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Nematoda

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one of the first animals to have its entire genome sequenced and is important in biological research as a model organism

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Pinworms

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A small nematoid worm that inhabits the rectum of the human host

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Tapeworms

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any of a class Cestoda of bilaterally symmetrical flatworms parasitic especially in the intestines of vertebrates called also cestode

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Bivavles

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having a shell consisting of two halves hinged together., clams, oysters

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Gastropods

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usually with a univalve shell or none and a distinct head bearing sensory organs

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Coelomate

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have a fluid filled body cavity called a coelom

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Acoelomate

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an invertebrate lacking a coelom; especially : one belonging to the group comprising the flatworms and nemerteans and characterized by bilateral symmetry and a digestive cavity that is the only internal cavity

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Radial symmetry

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

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Asymmetry

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The lack or absence of symmetry. Supplement. In biology, the body plan of many organisms exhibit symmetry.

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Bilateral symmetry

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is a characteristic of animals that are capable of moving freely through their environments

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Tentacle

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A narrow, flexible, part extending from the body of certain animals, such as an octopus, jellyfish, or sea anemone.

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Cnidocyte

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an explosive cell containing one giant secretory organelle or cnida or stinging cell

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Ectoderm

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he most exterior or distal layer. It emerges and originates from the outer layer of germ cells

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Endoderm

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gives rise to the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract glands associated with the gastrointestinal tract, bladder, and urethra

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Ovary

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the female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop

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Teste

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male reproductive organ