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What is an Amebocyte??
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An Amebocyte are amoeboid cells in sponges that occut in the matrix between the epidermal and collar cells. They transport nutrients.
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What are Collar Cells??
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Collar Cells are flagellated cells that line the interior of the central cavity of a sponge.
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What is a Filter Feeder??
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Filter Feeders are organisms such as sponges that feed by removing food from water that filterts through their body.
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What is a Gemmule??
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A Gemmule is a reproductive structure in some sponges that remains dormant through the winter and later develops into a new individual
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What is a Hermaphrodite??
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Hermaphrodites have both male and female sexual characteristics and organs.
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What is Nematocysts??
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Nematocysts are the cells at the tip of corals tentacles which "sting" when touched.
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What is a Polyp??
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A polyp is a sessile form of life history in cnidarians.
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What is a Medusa??
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A Medusa is a motile bell-shaped form of body plan in cnidarians.
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What is Regeneration??
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Regeneration is the regrowth of lost tissue of destroyed parts or organs.
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What is Sessile??
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Sessile are organisms that remain attached directly to it's base.
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What is Sponging??
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Sponging is the light, fibrous, flexible, absorbent skeleton of certain of these organisms, used for bathing, cleaning, and other purposes.
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What is a Spicule?
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A Spicule is a needle-shaped skeletal elements in sponges that occur in the matrix between the epidermal and collar cells.
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What is a tentacle??
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A Tentacle is an elongated process or organ, simple or branched.
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What is an Anus??
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An Anus is the posterior opening of the digestive tract.
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What is a cutile?
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A Cuticle is a thin, waxy layer on the outer wall of epidermal cells consisting primarily of wax and cutin.
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What is a Cyst??
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A Cyst is a fluid filled sac.
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What is a Flame Cell??
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A Flame cell is a specialized cell at the blind-end of a nephridium that filters body fluids.
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What is Ganglia??
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Ganglia is a mass of nerve tissue.
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What is a Host??
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a Host is an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite.
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What is a Parasite??
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A Parasite is an organism that lives in, with, or on another organism.
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What is a Pharynx??
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A Pharynx is a passage way between the mouth and the esophagus and trachea.
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What is a proglattid??
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A Proglattid is a reproductive division of a tapeworm.
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What is a Scolex??
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A Scolex is the head of a tapeworm.
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What is an Aortic Arch???
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An Aortic Arch is the part of the aorta leaving the heart, which curves up.
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What is a Chromarophore?
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A Chromatophore is an organelle that contains pigments.
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What is a clitellum??
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A Clitellum is a part of the outside of earthworms that secretes mucus during copulation and a cocoon early in development.
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What is a Crop?
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A Crop is a sac like area in an insect's gut where food is stored before it is digested.
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What is a Gizzard?
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A Gizzard is the muscular stomach in earthworms.
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What is an esophogus??
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An Esophogus is the portion of the gut between the mouth and the stomach.
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What is an excurrent siphon?
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An Excurrent Siphon is an opening that expels the water, cleaned of food and oxygen away from the mussels body,
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What is a foot gill?
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A foot gill takes oxygen out of the water, and helps muscles move.
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What is the Head?
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The head is the uppermost part of the body
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What is incurrent siphon?
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Incurrent Siphon is an opening that brings the oxygen and food containing water in the body.
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What is the mantle?
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The mantle is the upper surface of the back.
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What is nephridia?
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Nephridia is the networks of tubules in some invertebrates that have an excretory system.
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What is an open circulatory sytem?
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An open circulatory system is a circulatory system where blood is not always in vessels.
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What is parapodia?
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Parapodia is the lateral expansion of the foot.
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What is a Radula?
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a Radula is the tooth-lined tongue of a giant squid.
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What is a Seminal Receptacle?
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A seminal receptacle recieves sperm.
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What is a setae?
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A setae is hairlike growths on the body.
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What is visceral mass?
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Visceral mass is the part of the mooluscan body that contains the digestive and reproductive systems.
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What is the abdomen?
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The abdomen is the part of the body that contains the stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum,liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, appendix, gallbladder, and bladder.
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What is an antenna?
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An antenna is a long, slender organ or feeler located on the head of on insect.
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What is an antennule?
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An antennule is the foremost of pairs of antennae that occurs in some crustaceans.
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What is a book lung?
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A book lung is the simple type of lung found in spiders.
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