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soft-bodied, boneless water animals
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mollusks
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used by mollusks for locomotion
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visceral hump
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skin-like organ which covers a mollusk's visceral hump
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mantle
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univalves like snails, slugs, and whelks
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gastropods
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clams, mussels, oysters, and scallops
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bivalves
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squid, octopi, cuttlefish, chambered nautilus
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cephalophods
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name for edible clams, scallops, oysters, and clams
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shellfish
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three layers of a bivalve's shell
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hornlike outer layer, crystalline middle layer, pearly inner layer
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substance which forms the pearly layer
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nacre
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sheets of nacre built up around a foreign object
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pearl
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connects the two shells of a bivalve
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adductor muscles
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chamber in which a bivalve's gills are located
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mantle cavity
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takes water into the mantle cavity
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incurrent siphon
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passes water out of the mantle cavity
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excurrent siphon
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gastropods without shells
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slugs
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marine slugs
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nudibranches
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rough, file-like organ in the univalves' mouth that scrapes food and carries it into the digestive tract
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radula
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largest invertebrate
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giant squid
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cephalopod with eight tentacles studded with suction cups
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octopus
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only cephalopod with an external shell
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nautilus
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spiny-skinned animals
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echinoderms
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complex system of water-filled tubes throughout an echinoderm's body
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water-vascular system
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name for starfish arms
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rays
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found at the end of each starfish ray
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eyespot
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found on the underside of starfish rays, used for holding, moving, and opening the shells of prey
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tube feet
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center of starfish
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central disk
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microscopic invertebrates found in freshwater lakes and ponds
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rotifers
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number of cells in a rotifer
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500-1000
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eggs that can reproduce without fertilization
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parthenogenic
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stinging cells
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cnidocytes
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used by coelenterates to capture prey
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tentacles
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used by coelenterates to incapacitate or kill prey
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stinging cells
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two layers of cells in a coelenterate's body
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ectoderm, endoderm
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jellylike middle layer in a coelenterate
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mesoglea
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two body forms a coelenterate might have
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polyp, medusa
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cylindrical body type which is sessile and has an upward-facing mouth
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polyp
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free-swimming, umbrella-shaped body type with a downward-facing mouth
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medusa
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small freshwater coelenterate
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hydra
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free-swimming coelenterate with medusa body structure
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jellyfish
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large marine coelenterates with poly body
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sea anemone
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a colonial coelenterate
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coral
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vast limestone structures formed from the limestone cup at the base of coral
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coral reef
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always grow attached to some object in the water
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sponges
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the only multicellular animals which do not have at least a rudimentary nervous system
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sponges
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body opening or mouth in sponge
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osculum
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opening in sponge through which water leaves
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excurrent pore
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opening in sponge through which water enters
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incurrent pore
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inner layer of cells which line body cavity in the sponge
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collar cells
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crystalline support structures of the sponge
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spicules
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cylindrical bodies which are divided into many consecutive ringlike segments
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segmented worms
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common segmented worms
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earthworms, sea worms, leeches
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divides segments in segmented worms
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septum
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bristles on earthworms
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setae
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earthworm's 10 hearts
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aortic arches
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order of digestive tract for earthworm
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prostomium, pharynx, esophagus, crop, gizzard, intestine, anus
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earthworm's important role for soil
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waste enriches soil, tunnels aerate soil and improve water drainage
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coiled excretory tubes open at both ends that function like tiny kidneys
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nephridia
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largest class of segmented worms
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sea worms
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fleshy lobes on body segments of sea worm
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parapodia
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segmented worms with somewhat flattened bodies and suction disks at each end of their body
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leeches
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wormlike animals with flattened bodies
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`flatworms
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free-living flatworms which live as scavengers in ponds, streams, and lakes
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planarians
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light-sensitive parts of planarian's nervous system
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eyespots
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expels solid wastes from planarian
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excretory pores
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parasitic flatworms which live as parasites within snails, and later within man and domestic animals
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flukes
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most familiar fluke
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sheepliver fluke
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liver disease caused by fluke, gotten by eating raw or improperly cooked seafood
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clonorchiasis
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parasitic flatworms that live in their host's intestines
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tapeworms
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head of a tapeworm
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scolex
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nonsegmented animals with long, slender bodies covered by a thin cuticle
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roundworms
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four parasitic roundworms which affect man
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filaria worm, trichina worm, hookworm, ascaris worm
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swelling caused by lymph vessels blocked by filaria worms
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elephantiasis
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parasitic roundworms that live in the host's instestine and suck its blood
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hookworm
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disease caused by trichina worm, usually gotten by eating improperly cooked pork
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trichinosis
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tiny animal-like single-celled creatures
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protozoa
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thickened membrane which acts as a cell wall in a euglena
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pellicle
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whiplike filament which a euglena has
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flagellum
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the way a euglena moves (by changing body shape)
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euglenoid movement
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a euglena's asexual method of reproduction
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binary fission
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insect which transmits a parasitic flagellate to humans
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tsetse fly
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disease caused by tsetse fly
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African sleeping sickness
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protozoa with flexible bodies and the ability to change shape
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sarcodines
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most common sarcodine
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amoeba
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fingerlike projections an amoeba pushes out to move and uses to eat
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pseudopods
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parasitic sickness common where there is no sanitation
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amoebic dysentery
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protozoans that have calcium carbonate shells around them
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foraminifera
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protozoa with silica shells
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radiolaria
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hairlike projections on paramecium
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cilia
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large nucleus of a paramecium
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macronucleus
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small nucleus of a paramecium
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micronucleus
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outer layer of paramecium
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cortex or ectoplasm
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inner layer of paramecium
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endoplasm
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thick cell membrane of paramecium
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pellicle
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dartlike structures which a paramecium shoots out for protection or feeding
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trichocysts
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mouth cavity of paramecium
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oral groove
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where undigested food particles exit a paramecium
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anal pore
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two ways paramecia reproduce
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fission, conjugation
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spore-forming protozoa
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sporozoans
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one of the most common infectious diseases, caused by a sporozoa
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malaria
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