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    Invertebrates: Arthropods Characteristics

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    The document describes four major invertebrate groups: arthropods, mollusks, sponges, and echinoderms. It provides key characteristics for each group. Arthropods include insects and have segmented bodies and jointed legs. Mollusks are soft-bodied and include snails, clams, and octopuses. They use a rasping structure called a radula. Sponges have no true tissues or organs and have skeletons made of silica spicules. Echinoderms are marine animals with spiny endoskeletons and include starfish and sea urchins.

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    Invertebrates: Arthropods Characteristics

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    The document describes four major invertebrate groups: arthropods, mollusks, sponges, and echinoderms. It provides key characteristics for each group. Arthropods include insects and have segmented bodies and jointed legs. Mollusks are soft-bodied and include snails, clams, and octopuses. They use a rasping structure called a radula. Sponges have no true tissues or organs and have skeletons made of silica spicules. Echinoderms are marine animals with spiny endoskeletons and include starfish and sea urchins.

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    The document describes four major invertebrate groups: arthropods, mollusks, sponges, and echinoderms. It provides key characteristics for each group. Arthropods include insects and have segmented bodies and jointed legs. Mollusks are soft-bodied and include snails, clams, and octopuses. They use a rasping structure called a radula. Sponges have no true tissues or organs and have skeletons made of silica spicules. Echinoderms are marine animals with spiny endoskeletons and include starfish and sea urchins.

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    INVERTEBRATES

    ARTHROPODS
    Characteristics

     Insects have three pairs of legs or are the six-legged arthropods. The legs are adapted
    for crawling, collecting pollen and jumping.
     They have antennae and have three main body sections – the head, the thorax, and
    the abdomen.
     The head contains a pair of antennae, mouth parts that are adapted for sucking,
    biting, and chewing; and a pair of compound eyes.
     The thorax is the middle part. Wings and three pairs of walking legs are connected to
    the thorax.
     The abdomen is the rear part of an insect. The abdomen consists of eleven segments.
     Insects undergo metamorphosis. They lay their eggs in a specific habitat where their
    young can survive.

    MOLLUSKS (SOFT – BODIED ANIMALS)


    Characteristics

     Mollusks are coelomate animals with bilateral symmetry, a soft internal body, a
    digestive tract with two openings, and a muscular foot and a mantle.
     They are found in aquatic (ocean and fresh water) and moist land water.
     Many mollusks use a rasping structure called radula to scrape food into their mouth.
    Carnivorous mollusks use their radula to drill into other mollusks to feed into their
    internal body parts. Other mollusks, such as clams, are filter feeders and do not have
    radula.
     Oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttlefish, clams, snails, squids, and octopuses are familiar
    examples of mollusks.

    SPONGES (Pore-bearing animals)


    Characteristics

     They have no tissue, no organ, and most have no symmetry.


     Sponges differ in size, vary in shape and color.
     Sponges have many types of skeletons. Their skeleton is made up of tiny, needle-like
    structures called spicules. The silica, a glass-like mineral. Sponges are protected by the
    spicules from animals that try to eat them.
    ECHINODERMS (Spiny- skinned Animals)
    Characteristics

     Echinoderms are marine animals with spiny endoskeleton. They have a water vascular
    system, tube feet, and radial symmetry as adults.
     The water vascular system of echinoderms works together and enables them to get
    food. The strainer – like structure of an echinoderm is called madreporite.
     Almost all echinoderms have an internal skeleton that serves both as support and
    protection. The skeleton consists of hard, calcified plates that are embedded in the
    body wall. Spiny rejections on the plates stick out of the skin. These projections give
    echinoderms their spiny – skinned appearance.
     Echinoderms are starfishes, brittle stars, sand dollars, sea urchins, sea lilies, sea
    daisies, and sea cucumbers.

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