Across
- 2. one whose body temperature is largely determined by its surroundings, meaning it relies on external sources of heat rather than internal metabolic processes to regulate its temperature
- 3. an animal or plant having both male and female reproductive organs, structures, or tissue
- 4. a free-swimming sexual form of a coelenterate such as a jellyfish, typically having an umbrella-shaped body with stinging tentacles around the edge.
- 5. a unique hydraulic system found in echinoderms (like starfish and sea urchins) that functions in locomotion, feeding, respiration, and waste transportation, using a network of fluid-filled canals and tube feet
- 7. the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.
- 8. lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
- 9. firm, whitish, flexible connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints
- 13. a gas-filled sac present in the body of many bony fishes, used to maintain and control buoyancy.
- 15. a solitary or colonial sedentary form of a coelenterate such as a sea anemone, typically having a columnar body with the mouth uppermost surrounded by a ring of tentacles.
- 16. an organ that forms in the womb, also called the uterus, during pregnancy
- 18. dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat.
- 20. an internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
Down
- 1. an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate,
- 4. shed old feathers, hair, or skin, or an old shell, to make way for a new growth.
- 6. an animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
- 10. an egg with extra membranes that surround and protect the embryo
- 11. a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
- 12. a highly evolved and specialized organ developing on each side of the anterior chest wall
- 14. something being equally symmetrical around a central point, typically divided in a wedge similar to a fan blade
- 17. having or developing buds.
- 19. anything associated with, or occurring on, the bottom of a body of water, including the organisms that live there
