Animal Kingdom Vocabulary review

They are multicellular. They reproduce either sexually or asexually. They have distinct body parts that do different things. They can move around. They cannot make their own food

Animal kingdom

No backbone

Invertebrate

Backbone present

Vertebrates

Animal that can produce its own heat and can maintain a constant body temperature.

Endotherms

organism that needs sources of heat outside of itself. (cold blooded) organism that needs sources of heat outside of itself. (cold blooded)

Ectotherms

Two halves of an organism’s body are mirror images of each other.

Bilateral

parts of the body are arranged in a circle around a central point.

Radial symmetry

cannot draw straight line to divide its body into two or more equal parts. Its body is not organized around the center.

Asymmetry

breathing organ of fish

Gills

respiratory organ in vertebrates

Lung

radial canals connected to dozens of tiny suckers; used for feeding, moving around, or performing other functions

Tube feet

long flexible organ around the mouth or on the head of some animals, especially invertebrates such as squid, used in holding, grasping, feeling, or moving

Tentacles

body part or organ that projects from the main part of the body, e.g. a tail, wing, or fin.

Appendage

Ase x ual reproduction in which an outgrowth of the parent pinches of and eventually separates to form a new individual.

Budding

parts of organism break off and then develop into a new individual that is identical to the original one.

Fragmentation

organisms such as bacteria or protozoans link together, exchange genetic information, and then separate.

Conjugation

eggs of a female is fertilized inside of the female

Internal fertilization

eggs of the female is fertilized outside of the female body.

E x ternal fertilization

change that involves the four stages of egg, larva, pupa, and adult

Complete metamorphosis

a change that involves the three stages: egg, nymph and adult.

Incomplete metamorphosis

larva of some insects that resembles the adult and develops into the adult insect directly, without passing through pupa stage

Nymph

developing insect inside cocoon

Pupa

animal in initial developmental stage

Embryo

stage after a series of developmental changes.

Adult