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Animals
Question | Answer |
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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 |