invertebrate deck Flashcards
(23 cards)
Vertebrates
having a vertebrate.
Invertebrates
lacking a vertebrates
Consumer
eating things with a mouth
Ganglion
a structure containing a number of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.
. Gut
the stomach or belly.
.Coelom
the body cavity in metazoans, located between the intestinal canal and the body wall.
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; lack of symmetry.
Sponges
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal Metazoa clade as sister of the Diploblasts.
Cnidarians
an aquatic invertebrate animal of the phylum Cnidaria, which comprises the coelenterates.
Flatworms
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.
Roundworms
The nematodes or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broad range of environments.
Mollusks
an invertebrate of a large phylum that 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.
Open circulatory system
Open circulatory systems (evolved in crustaceans, insects, mollusks and other invertebrates) pump blood into a hemocoel with the blood diffusing back to the circulatory system between cells. Blood is pumped by a heart into the body cavities, where tissues are surrounded by the blood.
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 and wall thickness. In this type of system, blood is pumped by a heart through vessels, and does not normally fill body cavities.
Annelid worms
Annelid. The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, “little ring”), also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 17,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.
Exoskeleton
a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection
Compound eye
an eye consisting of an array of numerous small visual units, as found in insects and crustaceans.
Antenna
In radio an antenna is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver.
Metamorphosis
(in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.
Endoskeleton
an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
Water vascular system
(in an echinoderm) a network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels.
