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Bio II Chap 25 Vocab
Biology II Chapter 25 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pharynx | In free-living flatworms, the tubelike muscular organ that can extend out of the mouth and such food particles into the digestive tract. |
| Flame Cell | In flatworms, a cilia-lined, bulblike cell that moves water and certain substances into excretory tubules for elimination outside the body. |
| Ganglion | Group of nerve-cell bodies that coordinates incoming and outgoing nerve impulses. |
| Regeneration | Ability to replace or regrow body parts missing due to predation or damage. |
| Scolex | Parasitically adapted, knob-like anterior end of a tapeworm, having hooks and suckers that attach to the host's intestinal lining. |
| Proglottid | continuously formed, detachable section of a tapeworm that contains male and female reproductive organs, flame cells, muscles, and nerves; breaks off when its eggs are fertilized and passes out of the host's intestine. |
| Hydrostatic Skeleton | The pseudocoelom in round-worms; the fluid within a closed space that fives rigid support for muscles to work against. |
| Trichinosis | Disease caused by eating raw or undercooked meat, usually pork, infected with Trichinella larvae. |
| Mantle | Membrane that surrounds a mollusk's internal organs. |
| Radula | Rasping tonguelike organ with rows of teeth that many mollusks |
| Gill | |
| Open Circulatory System | |
| Closed Circulatory System | |
| Nephridium | |
| Siphon | |
| Crop | |
| Gizzard | |
| Seta | |
| Clitellum |