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Ribbon like membrane that has rows of teeth that point backward |
Radula |
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Sheath of skin extending from the visceral mass that hangs down on each side of the body protecting the soft parts |
Mantle |
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Shell or door |
Valve |
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Middle shell layer made up of calcium carbonate |
Prismatic |
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The oldest part of a bivalve shell |
Umbo |
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Something made by a oyster when the source of an irritant is covered in layers of Nacre |
Pearl |
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Not able to move |
Sessile |
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Having no symmetry sponges have this |
Assymetry |
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The term cephalopoda means |
Head foot |
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The free swimming larva that emerges from the egg in many mollusk |
Trochophore |
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Type of asexual reproduction in which knobs of tissue form on the side of an existing polyp |
Budding |
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Common predators of jellyfish |
Sea turtles |
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Cnidarian stinging cells |
Cnidocytes |
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The simplest sponge body form in which choanocytes lie in a large chamber Called the spongocoel |
Asconoid |
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Most complex and most common sponge body form in which choanocytes lie in distinct chambers |
Leuconoid |
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The jellylike extra cellular matrix of a sponge |
Mesohyl |
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class name Means many plate bearers |
Polyplacophora |
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The largest known species of jellyfish |
Lions mane |
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The most venomous animal in the world |
Box jellyfish |
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Body form of free swimming jellyfish |
Medusa |
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The most common type of cnidae |
Nematocysts |
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Motile larva of a jellyfish se |
Planula |
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Sea anemones have this type of symmetry |
Radial |
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Sensory structures used for light reception |
Ocelli |
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class name Means many plate bearers |
Polyplacophora |
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The largest known species of jellyfish |
Lions mane |
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The most venomous animal in the world |
Box jellyfish |
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Body form of free swimming jellyfish |
Medusa |
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The most common type of cnidae |
Nematocysts |
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Motile larva of a jellyfish se |
Planula |
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Sea anemones have this type of symmetry |
Radial |
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Sensory structures used for light reception |
Ocelli |
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The extra cellular mix that acts like glue between the two body layers the jelly of a jellyfish |
Mesoglea |
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Immature eight armed free swimming medusae formed from strobulation |
Ephyrae |
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Nickname for chironex flickeri |
Sea wasp |
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Term referring to organisms with two different body forms |
Dimorphism |
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The nematocysts sensor which triggers the Filament to pop out |
Cnidocil |
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Needle like structure that make up the skeleton of many sponges |
Spicules |
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Internal buds which can help sponges survive harsh conditions a type of asexual reproduction |
Gemmules |
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Exit opening at the top of a sponge |
Osculum |
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Process in which a polyp can produce many medusae |
Strobulation |
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Name for pores on a sponge |
Ostia |
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Class of sponges in which the spicules have three or four rays |
Calcarea |
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name meaning Pore bearing |
Porifera |
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Flowers of the sea that form a symbiotic relationship with clown fish and hermit crabs |
Sea anemone |
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Type of asexual reproduction in which an individual divides in half as one side of the polyp pulls away from the other side |
Fission |
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Organs that remove metabolic waste from a mollusk body |
Nephridia |
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Modified girls present in many aquatic mollusk; feathery or comb like structures used for respiration |
Ctenidia |
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What does the term mollusk mean |
Stomach foot |
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Material which composes the inner layer of a mollusk shell |
Nacre |
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Very small jelly with stingers on the bell |
Irakandj |
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Class containing box jellies with complex eyes and potent toxins |
Cubazoa |
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Strong muscles which extent between the shells to tightly hold a bivalves shell closed |
Adductor muscle |
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Animals found on rocky marine shorelines with eight overlapping plates on their dorsal surface |
Chitons |
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Poda means what |
Foot |
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An underwater ecosystem made of colonies of coral polyps |
Coral reef |
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A power greater than the human mind created life |
Creation |
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The organisms with the best adaptations will survive the longest and thus be able to reproduce |
Natural selection |
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Father of evolution |
Darwin |
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Boat that Darwin traveled on for 5 years |
HMS beagle |
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A food brought by humans to the Galápagos Islands that became a good source |
Guavas |
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Interfered with the Galápagos Islands |
Tourism |
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Time period with many new factories releasing smog |
Industrial revolution |
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Unicellular sessile prokaryote |
Archaebacteria |
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Unicellular motile prokaryote |
Eubacteria |
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Most venomous of the 500 geographic cone species |
Geographic cone snail |
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Multicellular sessile eukaryote |
Plantae |
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Having the male and female reproductive organs in separate organisms |
Dioecious |
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What word comes from the Latin word meaning soft |
Mollusk |
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Nickname for a giant barrel sponge |
Redwood of the sea |
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Class including organisms such as nudibranchs snails and slugs known as the stomach footed mollusk because their large muscular foot is positioned under the rest of its body |
Gastropoda |
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class containing organisms that are Divided into two halves and connected by a hinge includes oysters clams scallops |
Bivalvia |
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Quest that contains organisms such as squid octopus Nautilis and cuttlefish they have a close circulatory system and blue blood |
Chephalopoda |
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Largest bivalve |
Giant clam |
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Class containing sponges |
Porifera |
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Soft bodied marine Gastropod |
Nudibranchs |