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- 2. have segmented body, an exoskeleton and legs with joints
- 3. toothless: they have beaked jaws. They lay hard-shelled eggs. They have a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
- 9. a successful phylum of marine animals. They include sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and their relatives.
- 10. are small terrestrial invertebrates which have a hard exoskeleton.they are the largest group of animals on earth by far: about 926,400 different species have been described.
- 11. without backbones
- 12. a member of the phylum Porifera. It is a simple animal with many cells, but no mouth, muscles, heart or brain. It is sessile: it cannot move from place to place the way most other animals can
- 15. are the largest phylum of animals without a body cavity. Flatworms can be found in marine, freshwater, and even damp terrestrial environments.
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- 1. not parasites, they are free-living. They live in soil and feed on bacteria. C. elegans is a model organism, used to study animal development and behavior. It is the first multicellular organism for which scientists have been able to sequence its whole genome.
- 4. cold blooded, have scaly skin, and lay cleidoic eggs.
- 5. are an important phylum of invertebrate animals. Most of them are marine. They have huge numbers in-shore, that is, in shallow wahe largest marine phylum, with about 85,000 living species, 23% of all named marine organisms. They also occur in freshwater and on land.
- 6. members of the class Amphibia. The living ones are frogs (including toads), salamanders (including newts) and caecilians. They are four-legged vertebrates which are cold blooded.
- 7. with backbones
- 8. vertebrates which live in water and respire (get oxygen) with gills
- 13. a group of vertebrate animals which form the class Mammalia. They have fur or hair and a very precise kind of temperature regulation.
- 14. worms- can be found in most wet environments. Some of these species are parasitic or mutualistic. This means they live together with (or inside) another organism. A mutualistic relationship is beneficial to both organisms
