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Name: Features Used to Classify Animals
ID: m44656
Language: English (en)
Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to:
  • Explain the differences in animal body plans that support basic animal classification
  • Compare and contrast the embryonic development of protostomes and deuterostomes
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: acoelomate, animal characteristic, animal classification, animal diversity, bilateral symmetry, blastopore, body symmetry, coelom, coelomate, coelom evolution, determinate cleavage, deuterostome, diploblast, embryological development, enterocoely, eucoelomate, indeterminate cleavage, protostome, pseudocoelomate, radial cleavage, radial symmetry, schizocoely, spiral cleavage, triplobast
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: OpenStax College (info@openstaxcollege.org)
Copyright Holders: Rice University (daniel@openstaxcollege.org)
Maintainers: OpenStax College (info@openstaxcollege.org), Cnx Biology (ryan.s.stickney@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.5 (history)
First publication date: Aug 23, 2012 2:39 pm -0500
Last revision to module: Apr 10, 2013 11:06 am -0500

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Version: 1.5 Apr 10, 2013 11:06 am -0500 by Cnx Biology
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Version: 1.4 Apr 8, 2013 8:47 pm -0500 by Cnx Biology
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Version: 1.3 Mar 16, 2013 3:41 pm -0500 by Cnx Biology
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Version: 1.2 Feb 13, 2013 4:31 pm -0600 by Cnx Biology
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Version: 1.1 Aug 29, 2012 3:34 pm -0500 by Cnx Biology
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