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Movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration, growth |
7 characteristics of living things |
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Reproduction |
Ability to produce offspring to prevent extinction |
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Sensitivity |
Responding and reacting to the environment |
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Excretion |
Getting rid of waste |
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Respiration |
Converting food to energy |
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Growth |
Becoming larget snd stronger; becoming adult size |
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Taxonomy |
Science of identifying, naming, and classifying |
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Classifying |
Act of placing objects into groups based on their characteristics |
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Vertebrates |
Animals with backbones |
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Fish |
Cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates with scales and gills |
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Amphibian |
Cold-blooded vertebrates that can live on both land and water and breathe through their skin and lungs |
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Reptile |
Cold-blooded vertebrates that have dry skin and hard scales or shells and are more adapted to living on land than water (though they can live in both) |
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Birds |
Warm-blooded vertebrates that have wings, feathers, and hollow bones to help most of them fly |
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Mammals |
Warm-blooded vertebrates with hair or fur and mammary glands to feed their young |
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Ectotherms |
Cold-blooded animals |
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Endotherms |
Warm-blooded animals |
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Placental mammals |
Their young develop inside uterus and are born alive |
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Monotremes |
Egg-laying mammals |
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Marsupials |
Keep their young in pouches as they develop and grow |
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Poriferans |
Simple, sessile, filter-feeder invertebrates that have pores all over their bodies and are AKA sponges |
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Sessile |
Immobile |
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Cnidarians |
Invertebrates with nematocysts and tentacles around the mouth to help capture their food and were formerly known as coelenterates |
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Invertebrates |
Animals without backbones |
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Nematocysts |
Stinging cells |
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Platyhelminthes |
Invertebrates with flat, ribbonlike bodies and are AKA flatworms |
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Nematodes |
Parasitic invertebrates with long, smooth rounded bodies and are AKA roundworms |
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Annelids |
Invertebrates with long, segmented bodies and are AKA segmented worms |
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Mollusc |
(Usually) shelled and aquatic invertebrates with a muscular foot or tentacles |
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Echinoderms |
Spiny-skinned aquatic invertebrates |
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Arthropods |
Invertebrates with hard exoskeletons, jointed legs, segmented body, and compound eyes |
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Exoskeleton |
Arthropods' hard outer body |
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Crustaceans |
Mostly marine arthropods with two pairs of antennae and swimmerets |
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Arachnids |
Arthropods wirh four pairs of legs |
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Myriapods |
Centipedes and millipedes |
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Insects |
Arthropods with three pairs of legs and three body regions |
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Parasitic |
Living in the body of their host |
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Locomotion |
Movement |
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Spicules |
Made up of hard minerals and provides the sponge with strength and protection |
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Hermaphroditic |
Has both male and female gametes and therefore able to reproduce on its own |
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Class Agnatha
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jawless fishes with sharp teeth
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Class Chondrichthyes
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cartilaginous fish
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Class Osteichythes
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bony fish
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