Across
- 2. an animal in which internal physiological sources of heat are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature
- 3. a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes
- 4. one of two principal body types occurring in members of the invertebrate animal phylum Cnidaria
- 5. network of water vessels in the body, the tube feet being operated by hydraulic pressure within the vessels.
- 7. 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. 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. gas-filled organ in the dorsal coelomic cavity of fish.
- 15. a projecting mass of swollen and hypertrophied or tumorous membrane
- 16. flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.
- 18. endothermic process is any thermodynamic process with an increase in the enthalpy H of the system
- 20. internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
Down
- 1. constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom, comprising 95 percent of animal species and about 30 different phyla.
- 4. shed old feathers, hair, or skin, or an old shell, to make way for a new growth.
- 6. animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone or spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
- 10. errestrially adapted egg, characterized by a shell and extra-embryonic membranes
- 11. rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
- 12. milk-producing gland of women or other female mammals.
- 14. symmetry around a central axis, as in a starfish or a tulip flower
- 17. a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site
- 19. relating to, or occurring at the bottom of a body of water.
