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Animals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Homeostasis | The condition in which an organim's internal envirment is kept stable in spite of changes in the exteral envirment. |
| Vertebrate | The bones that make up the backbone of an organisum. In humans, one of the 26 bones that make up the backbone. |
| Adaption | An inherited behavior or physical charcteristics that helps an organism survive and reperduce in its envirment |
| Invertebrate | An animal without a backbone. |
| Tissue | A group of similer cells that preform a spicific function. |
| Organ | A body structure that is composed of different kinds of tissues that work together. |
| Radial Symmetry | A body plan in which any number of imagry lines that all pass through a central point divide the animal into two mirror images. |
| Bilateral Symmertry | A body plan in which a single imagry line divides the body into left and right sides that are mirror images of each other. |
| cnidarian | |
| echinoderm | |
| mollusk | |
| endoskeleton | |
| arthropod | An invertebrate that has an external skeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages. |
| exoskeleton | |
| chordate | An animal that has a notochord, a nerve cord, and throat pouches at some point in it's life. |
| ectotherm | |
| notochord | |
| endotherm | |
| vertebra |