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Asymmetrical

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Animals with no symmetry

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Autotrophic

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Organisms that create their own food

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Bilateral symmetry

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Organisms that can be divided through the middle to create mirror images

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Cleavage

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When a single cell is converted to a multicellular zygote

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Ectoderm

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Outer germ layer

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Ectothermic

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Unable to control body temperature

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Endoderm

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Inner germ layer

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Endothermic

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Able to regulate body temperature

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Gastrulation

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When cells form germ layers

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Germ layers

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Give rise to body systems and organs, and determine how the body cavity takes shape

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Hermaphroditic

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Having both male and female reproductive organs

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Heterotrophic

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Organisms that consume other organisms for food

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Invertebrates

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Animals that don’t have backbones

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Mesoderm

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Germ layer between the endoderm and ectoderm

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Oviparous

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Eggs are hatched after they’ve been laid by the parent

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Ovoviviparous

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Eggs are hatched inside the parent

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Radial symmetry

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Organism can be divided in many different ways to form mirror images

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Vertebrates

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Animals that have backbones

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Viviparous

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Young develop inside the mother