innverterbrate Flashcards
(21 cards)
vertabrains
an animale with a backbone
Invertebrates
no backbones
Consumer
refers to an organism, typically an animal, that feeds on other animals or plants
Ganglion
A noncancerous lump, often on the tendons or joints of wrists and hands
Gut
the digestive tract
Coelom
the body cavity in metazoans
Bilateral Symmetry
the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane
Radial Symmetry
symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower
Asymmetry
lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something
Sponges
Sponges are the basalmost clade of animals of the phylum Porifera
Cnidarians
Cnidaria is a phylum containing over 10,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic environments: they are predominantly marine species
Flatworms
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates
Roundworms
The nematodes /ˈnɛmətoʊdz/ or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broad range of environments
Open circulatory system
a few invertebrates, have a closed
Closed circulatory system
Vertebrates, and a few invertebrates, have a closed circulatory system. Closed circulatory systems have the blood closed at all times within vessels of different size
Annelid worms
Exoskeleton
Exoskeleton
is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal’s body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example, a human. In usage, some of the larger kinds of exoskeletons are known as “shells
Compound eye
an eye consisting of an array of numerous small visual units, as found in insects and crustaceans
Metamorphosis
Also called transformation. A change in the form and often habits of an animal during normal development after the embryonic stage. Metamorphosis includes, in insects, the transformation of a maggot into an adult fly and a caterpillar into a butterfly and, in amphibians, the changing of a tadpole into a frog
Endoskeleton
an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates
Water vascular system
by echinoderms, such as sea stars and sea urchins, for locomotion, food and waste transportation, and respiration. The system is composed of canals connecting numerous tube feet