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Animalia Kingdom
SLS Bio 11- Animalia Kingdom CP
Term | Definition |
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Asexual Reproduction | A type of reproduction by which the offspring of an organism arises from a single organism alone. |
Cell | The structural function of all organisms and biological unit, there are both multicellular and unicellular. |
Cephalization | The nervous control, the concentration of sense organs. The front end of the organism which forms the head. |
Closed Circulatory System | A type of system in the organism which pumps blood from the heart to vessels. |
Coelom | The main body cavity in an multicellular animals situated inside the body to surround the digestive tract and other organs in the body. |
Colonial | Many organisms living in together in close association. |
Fluid Feeding | Fluid feeders are organisms that feed off of other organisms fluids, feeding on blood or nectar. |
Endoskeleton | The internal skeleton, such as bones of vertebrates. |
Exoskeleton | The external skeleton that supports the animals internal organs and body from being damaged. |
Filter Feeding | Filter feeders are animals that suspend that nutriments from water by filtering, by passing the water by a filter. |
Free-living | Living independently from another organism. |
Internal Transport | When materials are moved throughout an organism, which helps supply heat and blood supply. |
Invertebrates | Animalia that does not have a backbone. |
Life Functions | There are many life functions, they are the essentials to how animals have to live their life. |
Medusa | A form of Cnidaria in the body which is shaped like an umbrella. |
Motility/ Motile | The ability to move actively and or on instinct to consume energy in the process. |
Multicellular | An organism that consist of more then one cell. |
Niche | The relational positioning of a species or population in an ecosystem. |
Open Circulatory System | Pumps blood into a hemocoel with the blood coming back the the circulation system in between cells. |
Organ | A group of tissue joined together in a structural unit for common functions. |
Organ system | A anatomical structure that serves specific uses or task in a organism. |
Parasite/parasitic | An organism that lives off another organism for nutriments. |
Polyp | An organism that has a fixed base, columnar body and tentacles. |
Reproduction | When two animals or one animal creates an offspring. |
Respiration | The action of breathing. |
Sessile | An immobile organism. |
Sexual reproduction | The production of a new living organism, by using the genetics of two separate organisms. |
Symmetry | Being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other. |
Tissue | Any distinct material a animal is made up of. |
Vertebral column | The backbone or spine of an organism. |