NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -More than 90 percent of all living animal species are invertebrates. Worldwide in distribution, they include animals as diverse as sea stars, sea urchins, earthworms, sponges, jellyfish, lobsters, crabs, insects, spiders, snails, clams, and squid.

Detailed explanation-2: -An invertebrate is a cold-blooded animal with no backbone. Invertebrates can live on land-like insects, spiders, and worms-or in water. Marine invertebrates include crustaceans (such as crabs and lobsters), mollusks (such as squids and clams), and coral.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. In fact, invertebrates don’t have any any bones at all! Invertebrates that you may be familiar with include spiders, worms, snails, lobsters, crabs and insects like butterflies. However, humans and other animals with backbones are vertebrates.