Kingdom Animalia: Glossary

Kingdom Animalia

Glossary

Alternation of generation – Alternation of haploid sexual and diploid asexual generation in the life cycle of an animal.

Autonomy – Breaking of a body part.

Dioecious – Animals in which male and female reproductive organs occur in separate individuals.

Hermaphrodite – Animals with both male and female reproductive organs.

Mersentery – A thin double walled epithelial membrane that support alimentary canal and other organs in the abdominal cavity.

Regeneration – Act of growing a new body part which has been injured or lost.