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52 Cards in this Set
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the ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals through camouflage in its shape or coloration |
crypsis |
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the most life threatening canine worms |
heartworms |
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the most common parasitic roundworm worldwide; wandering worms |
ascarsis |
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insects that carry the plaque |
fleas |
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the muscular tube through which the flatworm can suck food into its gut |
pharynx |
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flatworm structures used for excretion and osmo regulation |
protonephridia |
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term for an organism which is mature and pregnant or full of eggs |
gravid |
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honeybee stomach |
midgut |
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specialized eyes of a bee |
compound |
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intermediate host of blood fluke |
snail |
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appendages of the first body segment have venom claws one pair of legs on each segment agile hunters |
centipede |
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intermediated host of a canine heart worm |
mosquito |
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1 of 2 dangerous US spiders |
brown recluse |
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the main part of the body of a tapeworm made up of smaller repeated units |
strobila |
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the main part of the body of a tapeworm made up of smaller repeated units |
strobila |
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individual segment of a tapeworm body; contains muscles, nerves, and sexual organs necessary to survive and reproduce |
proglottid |
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parasite known to cause Schistosomiasis |
blood fluke |
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jaw of a bee |
mandible |
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carried by ticks, chromic and disabling |
lyme disease |
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gives planarian triangular shape |
auricles |
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the concentration of sense organs and nervous system control at the anterior end of the body |
cephalization |
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used for tapeworm attachment |
scolex |
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study of insects |
entomology |
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this blood vessel pumps blood anteriorly towards the head of an earthworm |
dorsal |
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hormones |
endocrine system |
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need like bristles |
setae |
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substance secreted by a leech |
anaesthetic |
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living fossils |
horseshoe crab |
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lobe around earthworm mouth |
peristomium |
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specialized body regions modified for specific purposes |
tagmata |
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daddy long legs |
harvestman |
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wingless work like stage of an arthropod during complete metamorphosis |
larva |
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extremely venomous spider found in Australia |
funnel web |
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african sleeping sickness |
tsetse fly |
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external circular tings marking each body segment of a segmented worm |
annuli |
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infects hundreds of millions yearly |
malaria |
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the youngest segment in the body of an annelid is at this end of the body |
posterior |
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term for eyespots which can detect light intensity |
ocelli |
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arthropod with the largest leg span |
spider crab |
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a stretchy sac-like organ of the digestive system that holds materials temporarily |
crop |
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the fluid filled coelom serves as this type of skeleton |
hydrostatic |
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type of venom that acts on the nervous system |
neurotoxin |
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a thick, muscular sac-like organ of the digestive system that grinds food into small pieces |
gizzard |
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longer leg like paired bristles which aid aquatic forms in swimming |
parapodia |
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process in which bacteria harvest energy from hydrogen sulfide and convert inorganic elements into sugars |
chemosynthesis |
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earthworm waste products which enrich soil |
castings |
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type of contractions which allow a worm to burrow |
peristaltic |
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number 2 disease vector in the world |
tick |
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crayfish have these large pincers used in defense and capturing food |
chelipeds |
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slow moving, herbivorous animal that may roll into a coil when disturbed and have two pairs of leg on each trunk segment |
millipede |
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marine worms found around deep sea hydrothermal vents throughout the Pacific Ocean |
giant tube worms |
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nose? things that come out of butterflies and mosquitoes |
proboscis |
