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bmms chpt.11 lifesci
bmms chpt. 11 life science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The cnidarian bowl-shaped body plan. | medusa |
| The cnidarian vase-shaped body plan. | polyp |
| The immature form of an animal that looks very different from the adult. | larva |
| Has no backbone. | invertebrate |
| The study of the structure of organisms. | anatomy |
| The heart pumps blood into a short vessel that opens into spaces in the body, and in which blood is not confined to blood vessels. | open circulatory system |
| A flexible ribbon of tiny teeth in mollusks. | radula |
| An invertebrate with a soft, unsegmented body. | mollusk |
| Blood moves only within a connected network of tubes called blood vessels. | closed circulatory system |
| A mollusk with a single shell or no shell. | gastropod |
| The organism that benefits from living on or in a host. | parasite |
| An invertebrate animal that uses stinging cells to capture food and defend itself . | cnidarian |
| Body plan with two halves that are mirror images. | bilateral symmetry |
| The quality of having many lines of symmetry that all pass through a central point. | radial symmetry |
| The organism that a parasite or virus lives in or on. | host |
| An ocean-dwelling mollusk whose foot is adapted astentacles that surround its mouth. | cephalopod |
| The process of shedding an outgrown exoskeleton. | molting |
| An internal skeleton. | endoskeleton |
| A waxy, waterproof outer shell or outer skeleton that protects the animal and helps prevent evaporation of water. | exoskeleton |
| An invertebrate that has an external skeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages. | arthropod |
| A system of fluid-filled tubes in an echinoderm’s body | water vascular system |
| A process in which an animals body undergoes dramatic changes in form during its life cycle. | metamorphosis |
| A radially symmetrical invertebrate with an internal skeleton and a water vascular system. | echinoderm |
| An arthropod with two body sections, four pairs of legs, and no antennae. | arachnid |
| An arthropod that has two or three body sections, five or pairs of legs, and two pairs of antennae. | crustacean |