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What is two?
Number of cells present in a sponge.
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What is a nematocyst or cnidocyte?
a small coiled tubule that often has a poisonous barb at the end.
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What is Gastropoda?
Includes snails and sea slugs; means stomach-foot.
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What is gastrovascular cavity?
Type of mouth/stomach present.
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What is Annelids?
little rings
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What is a collar cell?
Type of cell that has flagellum.
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What is Cubozoa?
A box jellyfish belongs to this class
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What is a radula?
A unique rasping organ found in mollusks.
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What is primitive senses?
Function of side flaps and eyespots.
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What is Nematoda?
The phylum beginning with the Latin word for thread.
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What is to pick up and transport food?
Amoebocyte functions
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What is Hydrozoa?
A Portuguese man of war belongs to this class.
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What is a Bivalve?
Feeds by pumping water over the gills.
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What is Planarian or Turbellaria? (class)
A non-parasitic animal that is cross-eyed.
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What is Platyhelminthes?
Phylum which contains the simplest bilateral animals, containing a muscular tube in the center of their body.
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What is sessile?
Anchored in place
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What is radial symmetry and tentacles with stinging cells?
What 2 characteristics do all Cnidarians share?
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What is Cephalopoda? squids and octopi
Which class of mollusks is the fastest and most agile?
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What is endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm?
Three tissue layers present.
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What is Rotifera?
Phylum meaning "wheel-bearer"
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What is sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction-budding, and regeneration of tissues?
Ways that a sponge can reproduce.
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What is a polyp?
A sessile organism with a cylindrical body shape.
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What is an open circulatory system?
Most Mollusks have this; includes a heart that pumps blood into the vessels.
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What is Trematoda or Schistosomosis?
A blood fluke/type of disease which infects people in Asia, South America and Africa.
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What is trichinosis? (roundworm parasite)
Disease acquired by eating undercooked pork or meat.
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What is a multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacking a cell wall?
4 Characteristics of Animals
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