- animal: a multicellular heterotroph that needs food, water and oxygen
- asymmetrical: no symmetry at all
- autotroph: plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
- bilateral symmetry: the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane
- carnivore: eats only meat
- herbivore: eats only plants
- heterotroph: an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
- invertibrate: has NO spine
- omnivore: eats meat and veggies
- phyla: a group that has genetic relationship, as a race
- predator: the eater
- prey: the eated
- radial symmetry: Characterizing a body shaped like a pie or barrel, with many equal parts radiating outward like the spokes of a wheel; present in cnidarians and echinoderms
- species: a group of animals that can mate with each other and create offspring
- verebrate: has a spine