Animal Traits and Characteristics

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Tiny stinging organelle found on some animals

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Nematocyst

Front

Animal that eats organisms that float through the water

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Filter feeder

Front

Animal with a backbone

Back

Vertebrate

Front

Having two sides the same when divided down the middle

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Bilateral symmetry

Front

Animal without a backbone

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Invertebrate

Front

Lives on or in another organism and depends on it for nourishment

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Parasite

Front

Able to exist independent of another organism

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Free-living

Front

Body parts repeat around a central point

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Radial symmetry

Front

Have radial symmetry and move using tube feet

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Echinoderms – Characteristics

Front

Starfish

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Echinoderms – Example