Animal/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from non-living systems. ^[e]
• Organism [r]: An individual living individual: a complex, adaptive physical system that acts a integrated unit that sustains metabolism and reproduces progeny that resemble it. ^[e]
• Eukaryote [r]: An organism that is composed of one or more cells containing cell nuclei. ^[e]
• Kingdom (biology) [r]: The second highest level taxon of organisms in scientific classification and biological taxonomy. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Sponge [r]: One of a loose group of sedentary, aquatic, filter-feeding invertebrate animals with soft and porous bodies, placed into the phylum Porifera. ^[e]
• Metazoan [r]: Any animal other than the sponges. ^[e]
• Bilaterian [r]: A clade of animals, all of which are bilaterally symmetrical during at least one point of their lives. ^[e]
• Protostome [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ecdysozoan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Insect [r]: One of numerous small arthropod animals with six legs, an exoskeleton that grows by molting, and oftentimes wings. ^[e]
• Lophotrochozoan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mollusk [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Deuterostome [r]: Superphylum of animals, and a subtaxon of the Bilateria branch of the subregnum Eumetazoa, which are distinguished by their unique embryonic development. ^[e]
• Chordate [r]: An animal who had a notochord — a stiff cord with nerve fibre bundles — somewhen during its life. ^[e]
• Vertebrate [r]: An animal who has a skeleton with a backbone, vertebrae, and/or a cranium. ^[e]
• Invertebrate [r]: An animal who does not have a skeleton with a backbone, vertebrae, or a cranium. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Plant (organism) [r]: A eukaryotic organism, grouped into the kingdom Plantae, that typically synthesizes nutrients through photosynthesis and possesses the inability to voluntarily move. ^[e]
• Fungus [r]: A eukaryotic organism, classified into the kingdom Fungi, that is heterotrophic and digest their food externally, and may be a yeast, mold, or mushroom. ^[e]
• Protist [r]: A unicellular organism grouped into the kingdom Protista that may have characteristics of plants and/or animals. ^[e]
• Bacteria [r]: A major group of single-celled microorganisms. ^[e]
• Archaea [r]: Add brief definition or description