Quizlet Animal Adaptation

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  1. animal: a multicellular heterotroph that needs food, water and oxygen
  2. asymmetrical: no symmetry at all
  3. autotroph: plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
  4. bilateral symmetry: the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane
  5. carnivore: eats only meat
  6. herbivore: eats only plants
  7. heterotroph: an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
  8. invertibrate: has NO spine
  9. omnivore: eats meat and veggies
  10. phyla: a group that has genetic relationship, as a race
  11. predator: the eater
  12. prey: the eated
  13. 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
  14. species: a group of animals that can mate with each other and create offspring
  15. verebrate: has a spine