WHAT IS AN ANIMAL?!??!?!??!?!?!???? Flashcards

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INVERTEBRATES

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Animals without a backbone

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VERTEBRATES

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Animals with a backbone

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Homeostasis

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Keeping internal body conditions stable

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Adaptations

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Structures and behaviors that allow animals to perform their functions are called

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Tissue

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A group of similar cells that performs a a specific function

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Organ

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Made up of different tissues

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Radial symmetry

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An animal has radial symmetry if imaginary lines can be drawn through a central point to divide it into 2 mirror images

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Bilateral symmetry

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An animal has bilateral symmetry if only one one of symmetry can be drawn to divide it into halves that are mirror images

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Cnidarian

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Invertebrates that have stinging cells and take food into a central body cavity

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Mollusk

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Invertebrates with soft, unsegmented bodies that are often protected by a hard shell

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Arthropods

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Invertebrates that have a hard outer covering, segmented bodies, and pairs of jointed appendages

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Exoskeleton

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Outer skeleton

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Echinoderm

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An invertebrate that has an internal skeleton and has a system of fluid-filled tubes

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Endoskeleton

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An internal skeleton

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Chordates

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Members of the chordata phylum

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Notochord

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A flexible rod that supports a chordates back

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Vertebrae

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Singular vertebra

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Ectotherm

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An animal that produces little internal body heat

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Endotherm

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An animal that controls the internal body heat it produces and regulates

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Fish

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Vertebrate that lives in water and uses fins to move

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Cartilage

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A tissue more flexible than bone

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Amphibian

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A vertebrate that is ectothermic and spends its early life in water and its adult life on land

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Reptile

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An ectothermic vertebrate that has scaly skin and lungs and lays eggs on land

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Bird

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An endothermic vertebrate that lays eggs and flies

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Mammals
Endothermic vertebrates that have skin covered in fur or hair
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Mammary glands
Organ that lets mammals produce milk
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Monotremes
Lay eggs
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Marsupials
Usually develop in a pouch on the mothers body
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Placental mammal
Develops inside its mothers body until its body's system can work independently
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Placenta
Materials are exchanged between mother and embryo through the placenta