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26.1 What Is an Animal? | - List the five features used to
identify an organism as an animal.
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- What makes an animal a heterotroph?
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26.2 Temperature Regulation | - What is the value in being able to
maintain a constant body temperature?
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- Define the term ectotherm.
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26.3 Body Plans | - Describe body forms that show
asymmetry, radial symmetry, and bilateral symmetry.
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- Give an example of an animal that has
a coelom.
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26.4 Skeletons | - Give an example of an animal with and
exoskeleton; an endoskeleton.
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- How does an animal with an exoskeleton
grow?
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26.5 Animal Evolution | - Which is speculated to have been most
recently evolved: a backbone or exoskeleton?
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- Which is probably the most recently
evolved animal: jellyfish or segmented worms?
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26.6 Primitive Marine Animals | - Give an example of an animal that is a
cnidarian.
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- What are the differences between a
polyp and a medusa?
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26.7 A Parasitic Way of Life | - Explain the tapeworm’s life cycle.
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- The
disease schistosomiasis is caused by what animal?
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26.8 Advanced Benthic Marine Animals | What is a sessile
filter feeder?
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How does the medusa
stage of an animal differ from the polyp stage?
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Describe a
benthic environment.
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26.9 Pelagic Marine Animals: Fish | -
How does a shark differ from most freshwater
fish?
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Define the
term pelagic.
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26.10 The Movement to Land | List problems animals
had to overcome to adapt to a terrestrial environment.
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Why can’t amphibians
live in all types of terrestrial habitats?
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What is the importance
of the amniotic egg?
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How does a
marsupial differ from a placental mammal?
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