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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adaptation | the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light) |
| amniotic egg | an egg with a shell and internal membranes that keep the embryo moist |
| anthropoid | resembling human beings |
| binocular vision | vision involving the use of both eyes |
| bipedal | having two feet |
| camouflage | the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance |
| carebral cortex | voluntary function of your brain |
| carapace | hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles |
| crop | a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food |
| diversity | the condition or result of being changed |
| ectotherm | an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings |
| endotherm | Animal that generates its own body heat and controls its body temperature from within |
| gizzard | thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food |
| hibernation | the act of retiring into inactivity |
| hominid | a primate of the family Hominidae |
| hominoid | a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea |
| locomotion | self-propelled movement |
| mammals | endothermic vertebrates that have hair and produce milk to feed their young |
| mammary gland | milk-secreting organ of female mammals |
| marsupial | mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried |
| migration | the movement of persons from one country or locality to another |
| mimicry | the act of mimicking |
| monotreme | A mammal that lays eggs |
| opposable thumb | thumb that enables grasping objects and using tools |
| placenta | that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form |
| plastron | the front of man's dress shirt |
| prosimians | Small, nocturnal primates with large eyes adapted to seeing in the dark. |
| reptiles | vertebrates that live on land, scales cover body, lay eggs, cold blooded |
| subcutaneous fat | layer of fat cells beneath the skin that helps conserve body heat |
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