A | B |
Eukaryotic, multicellular heterotrophs whose cells lack cell walls | Animals |
Animals that are permanently attached to one spot | Sessile |
Free moving stage in an animals lifestyle | Motile |
A hollow ball of cells | Blastula |
An opening that develops at the point where cells of the blastula move inward to form the cell layers of the gastrula | Blastopore |
Animals with backbone | vertebres |
Animals without a backbone | invertebrates |
The opening at the top of a sponges sac | Osculum |
Cells in a sponge's body that supply nutrients to other cells and remove wastes | Ambebocytes |
A network of protein fibers in a sponge | Spongin |
Tiny needlelike structures made of silicon dioxide | Spicules |
A dormat mass of sponge amebocytes surrounded by protective layers of spicules | Gemmule |
An individual organism capable of producing both egg and sperm | Hermaphrodite |
Body parts that radiate from a central point | Radial Symmetry |
Lack of body symmetry | Asymmetry |
A sessile, tubelike form of a cnidarian with a mouth on the dorsal surface and tentacles that point upward | Polyp |
a usually motile, bell shaped form of a cnidarian with a mouth on the ventral surface and tentacles pointing downward | Medusa |
The stinging organelles of a cnidarian | Nematocyst |
Free-swimming larva of a medusa | Planula |