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Cell
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basic unit structure and function in living things
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tissue
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group of similar cells that perform a specific function
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organ
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group of several different tissues
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Adaptations
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Structures or behaviors that allow animals to perform basic functions in their environment
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Sexual Reproduction
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process by which a new organism develops from the joining of 2 sex cellsfertilization.
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fertilization
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The joining of an egg cell and a spermcell
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Asexual reproduction
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the process by which a single organ-ism produces a new organism identical to itself.
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phylum
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Biologists have classified animals into 35 different groups
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vertebrates
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animals with a backbone
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invertebrates
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animals without back-bones
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bilateral symmetry
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just one linethat divides it into halves that are mirror images.
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radial symmetry
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many lines of symmetrythat all go through a central point.
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