EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Invertebrates: The animals that do not possess backbones are known as vertebrates. These animals are mostly soft-bodied. For example Earthworms, snails, sponges, etc.

Detailed explanation-2: -Animals without backbones are called invertebrates. They range from well known animals such as jellyfish, corals, slugs, snails, mussels, octopuses, crabs, shrimps, spiders, butterflies and beetles to much less well known animals such as flatworms, tapeworms, siphunculids, sea-mats and ticks.

Detailed explanation-3: -invertebrate, any animal that lacks a vertebral column, or backbone, in contrast to the cartilaginous or bony vertebrates. More than 90 percent of all living animal species are invertebrates.

Detailed explanation-4: -Invertebrates that you may be familiar with include spiders, worms, snails, lobsters, crabs and insects like butterflies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Invertebrates are those organisms that lack a spine or back bone. They evolved before vertebrates and are generally a simpler form of life having a simple notochord or simple nervous system. The support and structure that comes from the backbone come from other structures in invertebrates.