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Q: Why can't invertebrates get very large?
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Why are vertebrates able to grow larger than invertebrates?

Vertebrates have an internal skeleton and invertebrates have external skeletons. Vertebrates are able to grow larger than invertebrates because of this. Invertebrates would crush themselves under their own skeletons if they grew to a large size.


Why do invertebrates have to molt but vertebrates do not?

vertebrates dont molt because as they grow their bones grow unlike the bones of invertebrates the exoskeletons of invertebrates cant grow so the animal sheds of the old exoskeletons and makes a new one and that is called molding


Is a moose invertebrates?

No, moose are not invertebrate, in fact they have rather large backbones do to their size.


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What types of invertebrates have a very hard flexible exoskeleton?

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What are 2 classes of invertebrates?

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