Across
- 4. a gas filled sac in many bony fishes that help control buoyancy
- 6. the process of shedding an exoskeleton
- 8. body plan where body parts are arranged around a central axis
- 12. eggs with a protective membrane
- 14. an organ in pregnant animals that provides nutrients
- 15. a hydraulic system in echinoderms
- 17. an animal with a backbone
- 19. animal lacking a backbone
- 20. body plan with a single plane of symmetry, resulting in two mirrored halves
Down
- 1. an internal skeleton
- 2. an organism that possesses both male and female reproductive organs
- 3. an organism that generates its own body heat
- 5. lacking symmetry no consistent body plan
- 7. milk producing glands found in female mammals
- 9. a free swimming bell shaped form of a cnidarian
- 10. asexual reproduction where a new organism develops from an outgrowth
- 11. a firm, flexible connective tissue that provides support in some vertebrates
- 13. a rigid external covering that supports and protects there body of some interbrates
- 14. a sessile form of a cnidarian
- 16. an organism that relies on external sources of heat to regulate it’s body temperature
- 18. organism that life on or near the bottom of a body of water
