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Porifera and Cnidaria
Biology II Lab
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
01/29/2012

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Animals are made up of
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eukaryotic cells that do not have cell walls.
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Animals are
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multicellular
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heterotrophic
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they cannot make their own food and must feed on other organisms to live
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Animals typically reproduce
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sexually, but some may also reproduce asexually
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Animals are capable of
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motion
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Animals are able to respond quickly to
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external stimuli as a result of nerve cells, muscle or contractile tissue, or both
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Animal life cycles include
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a period of embryonic development
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Asymmetry
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cannot cut the body into two like halves
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Radial symmetry
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any cut from the oral end to the other end through the center yields two like halves
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Bilateral symmetry
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cut in ONLY ONE PLANE yields two like halves (right and left)
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Kingdom Animalia
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no cells walls
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Most can move
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on their own
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Body plan becomes fixed as
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they grow
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heterotrophs
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Get their nutrients from other organisms
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