EARTH SCIENCE
PALEONTOLOGY
Question
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Animals without backbones
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Animals with no flexibility
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Animals with backbones
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Animals without bones
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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: -Invertebrates that you may be familiar with include spiders, worms, snails, lobsters, crabs and insects like butterflies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Invertebrates range from spiders and scorpions to centipedes and millipedes, crustaceans, insects, horseshoe crabs, worms, leeches, earthworms, marine bristle worms, mussels and clams, snails, squid and octopi, sea anemones and corals, among others.
Detailed explanation-5: -The most familiar invertebrates include the Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterata, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Echinodermata, Mollusca and Arthropoda.