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Zoology
The scientific study of the animal kingdom, including extinct and possibly mythical beings.
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spirotrich
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Order of ciliated protozoa; have cilia cells around the cytostome and few elsewhere on the body
deuterostomes
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(Gk. deutero, real) An animal in which the blastopore becomes the anus, while the second opening becomes the mouth ; hemichordates, echinodermata, and chordates; usually ...
protostomes
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(Gk. proto, first) Any bilateral animal whose first opening in the embryo (deriving from blastopore) becomes the mouth and the second opening the anus; also characterized by ...
symbiosis
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(Gk. syn together with; bios, life) A long-term association with other organisms, sometimes limited to another single species which can be commensal, mutualistic, and parasitic.
facultative s.
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If both members are found separately, this is call facultative S
obligate s.
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For members which are never found living independently. The smaller member, symbiont, is described as an ecto-symbiont or endo-symbiont according to whether it resides on the ...
tissue types
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A group of cells of the same type performing the same function within the body.
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