Terms
Refers to an animal with a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
This class is known for laying hard-shelled eggs; and have beaks and bills.
What are Class Aves (Birds)?
This type of worm has a flattened body.
What is a flatworm?
What are hard shells?
A type of communication that crickets and flies use.
What is sound?
Refers to cells with a nucleus.
What is eukaryote?
Females of this subclass are known for having a pouch on their abdomen to nurse their young.
What is subclass marsupials?
This feature of a bird aids in flight, temperature, and body shape.
What are feather?
Cephalopods are known for this type of defense mechanism.
What is shooting ink?
A chemical released by one organism to affect the behavior of another organism of the same species.
What are pheremones?
Refers to fish births.
What is spawn/spawning?
What are Placental Mammals?
This type of snake is known for squeezing its' prey to death.
What is the constrictor?
A snake's venom that attacks the nervous system of an organism.
What is a neurotoxin?
Light, sensitive cells that assist an organism in vision.
What are ocelli?
Refers to the distribution of an animal's parts around an axis.
What is symmetry?
This class is named "stomach-footed" because is walks on its' belly.
What is Class Gastropoda (Gastropods)
Earthworms are known to be classified in this arrangement.
What are segments/segmented?
Cnidarians are known for this type of defense mechanism.
Specialized Stinging
Hair-like tissues that assist an organism in taste and smell.
What is olfaction/olfactory organ?
Refers to a biological change in an organism through a series of changes. (Ex. Butterfly)
What is Metamorphosis?
This subclass is a mammal that lays eggs. (Platypus)
What are monotremes?
Mollusks have this fleshy, tissue covering.
What is a mantle.
A snake's venom that attacks the tissue of an organism.
What is a hemotoxin?
A tiny bag of pigment, encircled by muscles that allows an organism to change color.
What is chromatophore?