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Gonads |
Organs in an animal that produce sex cells |
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Habitat |
The area or environment in which a particular kind of animal or plant lives |
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Herbivore |
A plant-eating organism |
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Heredity |
The passing of characteristics from parent to children |
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Hibernation |
Dormancy during the winter season |
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Hominids |
The biological family that includes our species |
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Homo |
The genus to which humans belong |
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Homologous Chromosome |
A pair of matching chromosomes in an organism |
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Horticulture |
The science of cultivating garden plants |
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Hybridization |
Producing offspring from parents of different stock |
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Hydroponics |
Cultivating plants in an artificial env. in which the necessary nutrients are carried to the roots in a liquid form |
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In vitro |
"in glass" |
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In vivo |
"in life" |
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Instinct |
Behavior that is not learned |
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Intron |
A stretch of DNA in a gene that does not code for a protein |
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Invertebrates |
animal without backbones |
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Karyotype |
The complete Chromosomes that constitutes the entire genome |
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Kingdom |
The largest of the divisions of living things |
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Linnean classification |
a way of organizing living things |
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Linnaeus, Carolus |
A Swedish biologist of the 18th century who is known as the "Father of Taxonomy" |