Ultimate Poop Butt 2.0 Flashcards

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Vertebrates

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an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

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Invertebrates

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an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc. The invertebrates constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom, comprising 95 percent of animal species and about 30 different phyla.

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Consumer

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a person or thing that eats or uses something.

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Ganglion

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a structure containing a number of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.

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Gut

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Human gastrointestinal microbiota, also known as gut flora or gut microbiota, are the microorganisms that live in the digestive tracts of humans. Many non-human animals, including insects, are hosts to numerous microorganisms that reside in the gastrointestinal tract as well.

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Coelom

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the body cavity in metazoans, located between the intestinal canal and the body wall.

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Bilateral Symmetry

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the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.

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Radial Symmetry

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

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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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Sponges

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Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal Metazoa clade as a sister of the Diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells.

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Cnidarians

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Cnidaria is a phylum under Kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic environments: they are predominantly marine. Their distinguishing feature is cnidocytes, specialized cells that they use mainly for capturing prey.

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Flatworms

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The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.

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Roundworms

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The nematodes or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broad range of environments.

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Mollusks

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an invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses. They have a soft unsegmented body and live in aquatic or damp habitats, and most kinds have an external calcareous shell.

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Open circulatory system

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Open circulatory systems are systems where blood, rather than being sealed tight in arteries and veins, suffuses the body and may be directly open to the environment at places such as the digestive tract. … It also contains immune cells – but hemolymph does not have red blood cells like our own.

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Closed circulatory system

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In a closed circulatory system, the blood stays within blood vessels. In this way, blood is kept separate from body tissues. … As such, the blood tends to be pumped at a higher pressure. In organisms with a closed circulatory system, the blood does not fill body cavities.

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Annelid worms

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DescriptionThe annelids, also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.

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Exoskeleton

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An exoskeleton is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal’s body, in contrast to the internal skeleton of, for example, a human. In usage, some of the larger kinds of exoskeletons are known as “shells”.

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Compound eye

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an eye consisting of an array of numerous small visual units, as found in insects and crustaceans.

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Antenna

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either of a pair of long, thin sensory appendages on the heads of insects, crustaceans, and some other arthropods.

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Metamorphosis

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a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or supernatural means.

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Endoskeleton

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an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.

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Water vascular system

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The water vascular system is a hydraulic system used by echinoderms, such as sea stars and sea urchins, for locomotion, food and waste transportation, and respiration. The system is composed of canals connecting numerous tube feet.