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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Crop | an expanded, muscular pouch near the gullet or throat |
| Leeches | They live in freshwater habitats, range in size from less than 2cm to the medicinal leech (20cm), and exhibit a variety of patterns and colors but most are brown or olive green |
| Differences between Reptiles | It regulates its body temperature by exchanging heat with its surrounding environment |
| Feeding of Sponges | They filter the food through the water flowing through them |
| Duckbill Platypus | A mammal which is semi-aquatic |
| Gizzard | An organ found in the digestive tract of some animals |
| Air sacs | Lungs=help you breath. Found in birds along the throat |
| Pneumatic skeleton | Bones that are hollow |
| Proventriculus | Part of the digestive system of birds, invertebrates and insects |
| Ovoviviparous | Some aquatic animals retain their eggs in some way and release young able to fend for themselves |
| Oviparous | Type of reproduction in which development occurs in an egg, laid by mother, in reptiles |
| Carnivores | Animals that eat meat |
| Cloaca and spermatophore | A common reservoir for the products of the digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems |
| Agnatha | Jawless fishes have a cartilaginous skeleton and persistent notochord. They are cylindrical, up to a meter long, and have smooth, nonscaly skin |
| Chordata | The animal phylum that contains humans and other vertebrates |
| Cartilaginous fishes | These fishes have a skeleton composed of cartilage instead of bone; have five to seven gill slits on both sides of the pharynx; and lack the gill cover of bony fishes |
| Characteristics of vertebrates | 1. Vertebral column 2. Skull 3. Endo skeleton 4. Internal organs |
| Wuchereria | A filarial worm that causes elephantiasis |
| Rotifers -- how small? | They are only .1-3mm in length |
| Proglottids | segments of a tpaeworm that contain both male and female sex organs and become a bag of eggs |
| How are tapeworms picked up? | Eating undercooked meat |
| Liver Fluke | A polyphylectic group of trematodes. Adults of liver flukes are located in the liver of various mammals, including humans. They occur in the bile ducts, gallbladder, and liver. |
| Body structure of hydra | a small tubular polyp about one-quarter inch in length |
| Coral reefs | coral formations in shallow tropical waters that support an abundance of diversity |
| Cnidarians | Invertebrates existing as either a polyp or medusa with two tissue layers and radical symmetry |
| Bilateral symmetry | In a bilaterally symmetrical animal, only one longitudinal cut yields two identical halves |
| Bee pollinated flowers | Bee-pollinated flowers are usually blue or yellow and have ultraviolet shadings that lead teh pollinator to the location of nectar |
| Mechanics of fruit dispersal | Either through the wind or by animals |
| Functions of a fruit | Fruits protect and help disperse seeds |
| Ovules, pollination | The ovule develops into a seed, which contains the embryo and stored food surrounded by a seed coat |
| The major parts of a flower | Sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels |
| Perfect flowers | Both stamens and (a) carpel(s) |
| Imperfect flower | stamens or (a) carpel(s), but not both |
| Dicots | Two or more cotyledons |
| Monocots | One cotyledon |
| Cotyledons | Seed leaves |
| Petals | The colorful part of the flower |
| Sepals | The most leaflike of all the flower parts are green and protect the bud as the flower develops within |
| Carpels | a vaselike structure that represents the "female" portion of the flower |
| Stamens | the "male" portino of the flower |
| Anthers | the pollen bearing part of the stamen |
| Filament | The stalk of the flower |
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