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animals - Answer- multicellular, heterotrophic eukaryotes with tissues developed from
embryonic layers
collagen - Answer- the most abundant structural protein that helds together the animal
cells
cleavage - Answer- The process of cytokinesis in animal cells, characterized by
pinching of the plasma membrane; specifically, the succession of rapid cell divisions
without growth during early embryonic development that converts the zygote into a ball
of cells.
blastula - Answer- The hollow ball of cells marking the end stage of cleavage during
early embryonic development
gastrulation - Answer- developmental process in which three distinct cell layers form in
an embryo: the endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm
gastrula - Answer- a stage of embryonic development characterized by the
differentiation of the cells into the ectoderm and endoderm germ layers and by the
formation of the archenteron
larva - Answer- A free-living, sexually immature form in some animal life cycles that may
differ from the adult in morphology, nutrition, and habitat.
metamorphosis - Answer- the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into a juvenile,
which resembles the adult but is not yet sexually mature.
Hox genes - Answer- Series of genes that controls the differentiation of cells and tissues
in an embryo
choanoflagellets - Answer- closest living relatives to the animalia
Ediacaran biota - Answer- An early group of soft-bodied, multicellular eukaryotes known
from fossils that range in age from 565 million to 550 million years old.
Cambrian explosion - Answer- A burst of evolutionary origins when most of the major
body plans of animals appeared in a relatively brief time in geologic history; recorded in
the fossil record about 535 to 525 million years ago.