Classification
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Classification | The act of grouping living things by using a set of rules |
| Protista | Mostly unicellular, some are multicellular (algae); all have a nucleus; any organism that is not a plant, animal or fungus. |
| Deciduous | Shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs |
| Fossil | Preserved remains of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past |
| Dead | No longer living |
| Coniferous | Any of various mostly needle-leaved or scale-leaved, chiefly evergreen, cone-bearing trees or shrubs; pines, spruces, and firs |
| Morphology | The study of form or structure |
| Veins | One of the vascular bundles that form the branching framework of a leaf |
| Margin | Boundary area extending along the edge of the leaf |
| Scientific Name | Scientific name of species - formed by a combination of two terms: the first name (Capitalized) is the Genus of the organism; the second (Not capitalized) is its species |
| Invertebrate | Animals without a backbone |
| Reptile | Animals that have dry scaly skin and lay eggs |
| Petiole | The stalk attaching the leaf blade to the stem |
| Amphibians | Animals that have moist skin, no scales and lay eggs |
| Monera | Kingdom of one celled organisms with no nucleus |
| Fungi | Kingdom of organisms that are plantlike but cannot make their own food |
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