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Vertebrates & Invertebrates


 

In a modern system of classification, all animals can be divided into two groups - vertebrates and invertebrates.   Vertebrates are animals that have a skeleton inside their bodies.   Biologists call this an internal skeleton.

An internal skeleton includes a backbone which is made up of bones called vertebrae.

                     

Vertebra is one bone in a backbone; vertebrae is more than one bone from a backbone.

All other animals are called invertebrates.   Invertebrates do not have an internal skeleton. Examples of invertebrates include sponges, jellyfish, corals, worms, shellfish, octopuses, starfish, spiders and insects.

Vertebrates

 

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Invertebrates

 

 
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