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environmental heterogeneity
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refuges, hazards, stresses, opportunities for organisms depend on its body size
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homeostasis
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maintaining an internal state with a narrower (and physiologically more favorable) range of conditions than the external environment
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acclimatization
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shifts in the response of an organism to a condition caused by the regime it has experienced in the past
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ectotherms
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rely on external sources of heat to regulate temperature
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endotherms
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use their own metabolic heat
production to regulate their body temperature |
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life history
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organism's lifetime pattern of growth, differentiation, storage, reproduction
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life cycle
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sequence of stages through which organisms pass to develop from zygote to a reproductive adult producing more zygote
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propagule
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individual, group, or biotic fragment that can potentially begin a new population.
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unitary organisms
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develop from zygote to adult with determinant form
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modular organisms
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grow by repeated interations of its parts (modules) into an adult of indeterminate form (coral, poison oak)
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genet
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genetic individual, all the biomass that derived from single embryo
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ramet
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subunit of genet that is physiologically viable as an autonomous fragment
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life cycle of a frog
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egg
embryo tadpole tadpole with front legs tadpole- pulmonary breathing tadpole frog adult frog |
