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Animals
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Homeostasis | Keeping internal body conditions stable. |
| Vertebrate | Animals with a backbone. |
| Invertebrate | Animals without a backbone. |
| Tissue | Groups of similar cells that do certain things. |
| Organ | Something made up of different tissue. |
| Radical Symmetry | When a line crosses the center point in creates two mirror images. |
| Bilateral Symmetry | Has one line of symmetry that divides into two halves. |
| Cnidarian | Invertebrates with stinging cells that have food in their central cavity when they take it. |
| Mollusk | Invertebrates that have soft, unsegmented bodies that are usually protected by a hard shell. |
| Arthropod | Invertebrates with pares of jointed appendages, segmented bodies, and a hard outer covering. |
| Exoskeleton | The outer covering of a Arthropod. |
| Echinoderm | An invertebrates with a series of fluid-filled tubes and an inner skeleton. |
| Endoskeleton | An internal skeleton. |
| Adaptation | Structures and behaviors that allow animals to to do certain things. |