Introduction to Animals

Multicellular heterotropic organism that lack cell walls.

• plants

• animals

• protist

• bacteria

Animals with a backbone

• invertebrates

• vertebrates

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Animals that do not have a backbone.

• vertebrates

• invertebrates

Evolutionary adaptation of a cell for a particular function.

• differeniation

• symmetry

• cephalization

• specialization

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Animals get their energy from other sources.

• autotrophic

• heterotrophic

Process when animals take in organic materials or food usually in the form of other living things.

• digestion

• excretion

• ingestion

• respiration

Cells become specialized and perform different functions. (blood cells, bone cells)

• specialization

• respiration

• differniation

• digestion

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Animals are able to move due to the interrelationship of 2 types of tissues. Which is not one of these tissues?

• digestion

• nervous

• muscle

Body arrangement in which parts that lie on opposite sides of an axis are identical.

• symmetry

• differentiation

• specialization

 What is the back or upper surface of the animal called?

• Dorsal
• Ventral
• Anterior
• Posterior