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24 Cards in this Set
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Species
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A goup of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring which can also mate and reproduce.
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Autotroph
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An organism that makes its own food.
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fertilization
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The joining of female egg and male sperm.
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adaptation
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A characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment or reproduce.
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carnivore
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An animal that eats only other animals.
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prey
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An animal that a predator feeds upon. IE: Lion eats gazelle (gazelle is the prey)
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phylum
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One of about 35 major groups into which biologists classify members of the animal kingdom.
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vertebrate
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An animal that has a backbone.
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heterotroph
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An orginism that can not make
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sexual reproduction
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The process by which a new organism forms from the joining of two sex cells.
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asexual reproduction
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The process by which a single organism produces a new organism identical to itself.
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herbivore
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An animal that eats only plants.
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omnivore
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An animal tat eats both plants and animals.
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invertebrate
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An animal that does not have a backbone.
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bilateral summetry
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Line systmmerty the quality of being divisible into two halves that are mirror images.
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Radial symmetry
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The quality of having many lines of symmetry that all pass through a central point.(p24)
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Larva
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The immature form of an animal that looks very different from the adult.(p.30)
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Cnidarian
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Animals whose stinging cells are used to capture their prey an defend themselves, and who take their food into a hollow central cavity. (p.31)
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Polyp
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The cnidarian body plan characterized by a vaselike shape and which is usually adapted for life attached to an underwater surface. (p.31)
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Medusa
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The cnidarian body plan characterized by a bowl shpe and which is adapted for a freeswimming life.(p.32)
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Regeneration
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The ability of an organism to regrow body parts. (p.36)
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Parasite
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An organism that lives inside or on another organism and takes food from the organism in or on which it lives.(36)
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Host
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An organism that provides food to a parasite that lives on or inside it. (p36)
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Anus
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The opening at the end of an orgaism's digestive system through which wastes exit. Where you poop from. (p 39)
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