vocab chapters 1-4 Flashcards
species
A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce off springs.
autotroph
An organism that makes its own food.
adaptation
A characteristic that helps and organism survive its environment.
carnivore
Animals that eat other animals.
phylum
Major group biologists classify organisms into.
vertebrate
Animal that has a back bone.
heterotroph
An organism that can’t make its own food.
sexual reproduction
Creating a new organism from the joining of two cell male and female chactistics from both
budding
A way to reproduce by the larva sticking to the parent then breaking off.
Omnivore
Eat both animals and plants.
Invertebrate
An animal that doesn’t have a back bone.
Cnidarian
Phylum containing animals that have stinging cells .
polyp
Shaped like vase with mouth at top!
Medusa
Free swimming cnidarian with mouth open downward.
reef
Contains the bodies of thousands of coral polyps, which build up on each other.
asymmetry
When it is no symmetrical.
radial symmetry
Many lines go through the center point.
Bilateral symmetry
The object can be divided into a half so the other side is mirror.
regeneration
How an organism can regrow a certain part of its body if it gets cut off.
parasite
An organism that lives inside another organism.
planarian
A planarian is a non parasitic flat worm.
host
The organism that the parasite lives in or on.
