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SLS BIO11 Animals AK
SLS Bio11 Animals AK
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asexual Reproduction | Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, and inherit the genes of that parent only |
| Cell | the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism |
| Cephalization | the concentration of sense organs, nervous control, etc., at the anterior end of the body, forming a head and brain |
| Closed circulatory system | Closed circulatory systems have the blood closed at all times within vessels of different size and wall thickness. |
| Coelem | the body cavity in metazoans |
| Colonial | To live in colonies |
| Fluid | Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass |
| Feeding | To feed or give nourishment to |
| Endoskeloton | an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates. |
| Excretion | The process of eliminating waste matter |
| Exoskeloton | a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals |
| Filter feeding | feeding by filtering out plankton or nutrients suspended in the water. |
| Free-living | living freely and independently, not as a parasite or attached to a substrate |
| Internal Transport | the act of moving something from one to another |
| Invertebrates | an animal lacking a backbone |
| Levels of organization | The biological levels of organization of living things arranged from the simplest to most complex are: organelle, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms, populations, communities, ecosystem, and biosphere. |
| Life functions | The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter |
| Medusa | a free-swimming sexual form of a coelenterate |
| Motility | motility is the ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process |
| Motile | capable of motion |
| Multicellular | having or consisting of many cells |
| Niche | The specific area where an organism inhabits |
| Open circulatory system | Closed circulatory systems have the blood closed at all times within vessels of different size and wall thickness |
| Organ | a part of an organism that is typically self-contained and has a specific vital function |
| Organ system | organ system is a group of organs that work together to perform one or more functions |
| Parasite | an organism that lives in or on another organism and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense |
| Polyp | a solitary or colonial sedentary form of a coelenterate |
| Reproduction | the production of offspring by a sexual or asexual process |
| Respiration | a process in living organisms involving the production of energy |
| Response | An action or movement due to the application of a stimulus |
| Sessile | An organism fixed in one place |
| Sexual Reproduction | the production of new living organisms by combining genetic information from two individuals of different types |
| Symmetry | the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis |
| Tissue | any of the distinct types of material of which animals or plants are made |
| Vertebral Column | Another term for spinal column |
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