somthing 2 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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Closed circulatory system

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the blood closed at all times within vessels of different size and wall thickness

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Open circulatory system

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the heart is pumping the blood through out the body

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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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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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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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Cnidarians

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an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Cnidaria, which comprises the coelenterates.

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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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Asymmetry

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lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.

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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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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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Coelom

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

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. Gut

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the stomach or belly.

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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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Consumer

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a person or thing that eats or uses something.

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. Invertebrates

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an animal lacking a backbone,

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Annelid worms

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The 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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Water vascular system

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(in an echinoderm) a network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels.

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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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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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Antenna

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In radio engineering, an antenna is the interface between radio waves propagating through space

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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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Exoskeleton

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a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.