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Animals in this phylum are flatworms like planaria, fluke, and tapeworm
What is Platyhelminthes?
Animal that does not have a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
An animal with an internal skeleton and a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
Animals in phyla Annelida, Chordata and Mollusca have this type of symmetry
What is bilateral symmetry?
Animals in this phylum are asymmetrical.
What is Porifera?
Animals in this phylum include insects, spiders, lobsters and crabs.
What is Arthropoda?
The structure covered with tiny teeth used by a mollusk to scrape food into its mouth.
What is a radula?
Give two examples of animals that are endothermic.
What are mammals and birds?
Which two phyla lack the ability to regenerate (generally)?
What is Nematoda and Chordata?
Animals in this phylum are aquatic invertebrates with soft bodies. Some have stinging tentacles.
What is Cnidaria?
What are three characteristics all animals share?
They are eukaryotic, multicellular organisms, heterotrophs, usually mobile or have the ability to move at least one stage of their lives.
Snails, slugs, clams, oysters, squid, octopus are examples of animals in this phylum.
What is Mollusca?
Animals in this phylum have segmented bodies and a closed circulatory system. A leech is in this phylum.
What is Annelida?
What animal is an example of an asymmetrical body plan?
What is a sponge?
Animals in this phylum have soft, unsegmented bodies, a radula, mantle, and may have a foot to move
What is Mollusca?
What are two main characteristics used to classify animals?
What is Invertebrates and Vertebrates?
Animals in this phylum can be endotherms and ectotherms, have a nerve cord, notochord, pharyngeal slits and most are vertebrates
What is Chordata?
Many animals in this phylum will molt when they outgrow their exoskeleton.
What is Arthropoda?
What type of symmetry do corals, jellyfish, sea stars, and sea urchin have
What is radial symmetry?
Animals in this phylum have a water vascular system, tube feet, and an endoskeleton covered by spiny skin
What is Echinodermata?
Animals in this phylum are roundworms like the hookworm and Ascaris.
What is phylum Nematoda?
Give two examples of ectotherms.
What are fishes, reptiles, amphibians?
internal skeleton
What is an endoskeleton?
Phylum that includes sand dollars, sea urchin, sea cucumber, brittle star, sea star
What is Echinodermata?
the two body plans of animals in phylum Cnidaria
What are polyp and medusa?