invertabrate

Question 1

Vertebrates

Answer 1

an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

Question 2

Invertebrates

Answer 2

an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate

Question 3

Consumer

Answer 3

a person or thing that eats or uses something.

Question 4

Ganglion

Answer 4

an abnormal benign swelling on a tendon sheath.

Question 5

Gut

Answer 5

The portions of the alimentary canal, particularly the stomach and the intestines

Question 6

Coelom

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Bilateral Symmetry

Answer 7

the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.

Question 8

Radial Symmetry

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Asymmetry

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Sponges

Answer 10

a piece of a soft, light, porous substance originally consisting of the fibrous skeleton of an invertebrate but now usually made of synthetic material. Sponges absorb liquid and are used for washing and cleaning.

Question 11

Cnidarians

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Flatworms

Answer 12

a worm of a phylum that includes the planarians together with the parasitic flukes and tapeworms. They are distinguished by having a simple flattened body that lacks blood vessels, and a digestive tract that, if present, has a single opening.

Question 13

Roundworms

Answer 13

a nematode, especially a parasitic one found in the intestines of mammals.