An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. The group includes 95% of all animal species. These animals are divided into two groups, Insecta and Obsolete Vermes.
Key Characteristics:
•It does not have a backbone and spinal column
•Difficult for invertebrates to be adaptive to multiple environment
•They have a fluid-filled, hydrostatic skeleton, like the jelly fish or worm. Other have a hard outer shell, like insects and crustaceans.
•Difficult for invertebrates to be adaptive to multiple environment
•They have a fluid-filled, hydrostatic skeleton, like the jelly fish or worm. Other have a hard outer shell, like insects and crustaceans.
•They do not have any lungs, so for most of them, the exchange of gases takes place through their skin.
•Some of them are harmful to humans, both directly and indirectly like the Termite, Mosquito, Jellyfish, Housefly.
•They lay eggs, not giving birth to young alive.
Insecta, also known as Insects, have a large number of unique and derived characteristics, although none of these are externally obvious in most species. It is under the subphylum of Hexapoda, translated from the Greek for six legs.
Some of the characteristics includes:
- having the lack of musculature ( the muscles of all or a part of the animal body) beyond the first segment of antenna.
-Johnston's organ in pedicel(second segment) of antenna. This organ is a collection of sensory cells that detect movement of the flagellum. ( the tail-like projection that protrudes from the cell body of certain prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.)
-a transverse bar forming the posterior tentorium inside the head
-tarsi (group of small bones between the main part of the hind limb an the metatarsus in the terrestrial vertebrates) sub segmented.
Obsolete Vermes:
-A obsolete vermes is a worm.
-All worms are bilaterally symmetrical. Meaning, the two sides of their bodies are identical.
-They lack scales and true limbs, though they may have appendages (special body parts) such as fins and bristles.
-Many worms have sense organs to detect chemical changes in their environments, and some have light-sensing organs.
-Worms have no lungs. Instead, they breathe through their skin, so the worm’s environment and the worm’s skin must be moist at all times. This allows the worm to breathe in oxygen.
-Worms do have mouths. Their mouths are actually big enough ad powerful enough to grab a leaf and drag it around. They also have a pharynx (a part of the throat), esophagus, crop (a part of your body where you can store food) and intestine.
-Worms eat so much that they typically produce excrement equal to their own weight every 24 hours.
-Worms prefer to mate or reproduce in warm moist soil and away from light.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapoda
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/musculature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=tarsi
http://www.allaboutworms.com/
http://www.wikipedia.com
http://www.interestinganimals.net/charateristics_of_invertebrates/charateristics_of_invertebrates.html
http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/animals/animalindexinv.htm
http://www.interestinganimals.net/charateristics_of_invertebrates/charateristics_of_invertebrates.html
http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/animals/animalindexinv.htm
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Invertebrates were the first animals to evolve.
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scientists have discovered fossilized burrows and tracks in sediments of invertebrates that dated back nearly 1 billion years ago.
I have learned that insects do not have muscles beyond the first segment of the antenna.
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Invertebrates who survived during the Jurassic period, some could still be found in the present world today.
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Invertebrates cover 95% of the animal species.I though vertebrates cover more than invertebrates.
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Wheres the other types of invertebrates?
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