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phylogeny |
The origin and diversification of any taxon; the evolutionary history of it’s origin and diversificationcoele |
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coelom |
The body cavity in triploblastic animals |
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spiral cleavage |
type of early embryonic cleavage in which cleavage planes are diagonal to the polar axis and unequal cells are produced by the alternate clockwise and counterclockwise cleavage around the axis of polarity |
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homeothermic |
having a nearly uniform body temperature, regulated independent of the environmental temperature |
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proximate causes |
the factors that underlie the functioning of a biological system at a particular place and time, including those responsible for metabolic, physiological, and behavioral functions at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and population levels |
AKA immediate causes |
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comparative method |
use patterns of similarity and dissimilarity among species or populations to test hypotheses of character homology and to infer phylogeny to examine evolutionary processes and history |
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