Echinoderm Flashcards

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Organism characterized by tube feet, a calcite body-covering, and a five-part symmetrical body.

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Echinoderm

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is the internal bone or cartilage structure of animals which have a vertebra and some animals without vertebra.

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Endoskeleton

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is a small wrench- or claw-shaped appendage with movable jaws

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Pedicellariae

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is an essential part of the circulation system in echinoderms

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Madreporite

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one of the numerous minute canals lined with choanocytes which radiate from the paragastric cavity in some sponges and end just below the surface of the sponge.

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Radial canal

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circular water tube that surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms.

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Ring canal

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the arms/limbs of an echinoderme

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Arm / Ray

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

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Radial Symmetry

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arrangement of an organism or part of an organism along a central axis, so that the organism or part can be divided into two equal halves

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Bilateral Symmetry

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is a hydraulic system used by echinoderms, such as sea stars and sea urchins, for locomotion, food and waste transportation, and respiration.

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Water Vascular System

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The abdominal part that extends from the mouth to the end of each ray or arm.

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Ambulacral Groove

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Any small bony or chitinous structure found in various skeletal parts of animals.

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Ossicles

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one of the tubular pouches opening into the alimentary canal in the pyloric region of most fishes

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Pyloric Caecum

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the distal aperture of the stomach, opening into the duodenum.

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Pyloric Stomach

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a midgut with outpocketings called digestive glands, or hepatopancreas; and a hindgut, or rectum

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Cardiac Stomach

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Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

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The sex organ producing gametes

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Circular structure that connects the limbs in a starfish

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fluid-filled muscular tubes of echinoderms, such as the starfish or sea urchin, used for locomotion, respiration, and grasping food or prey.

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is a male organism’s sperm fertilizing a female organism’s egg outside of the female’s body

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External Fertilization

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is the process of renewal, restoration, and growth that makes genomes, cells, organisms, and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations or events that cause disturbance or damage.

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Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioide

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ophiuroids are echinoderms in the class Ophiuroidea

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any of numerous echinoderms (class Echinoidea) that are usually enclosed in thin brittle globular tests covered with movable spines.

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burrowing sea urchins belonging to the order Clypeasteroida.
Sand dollar
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Crinoids are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea of the echinoderms
Sea lilies
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any of the 550 living species of crinoid marine invertebrates (class Crinoidea)
Feather stars
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any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having an elongated body covered with a leathery skin and bearing a cluster of tentacles at the oral end.
Sea cucumbers
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Organism that has no arms, but the circle is rimmed with flat spines that look like daisy petals.
Sea daises