 | Term | Definition |
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animal |
multicelluar, heterotroph, need food, water, oxygen |
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predator |
hunts |
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prey |
is hunted |
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herbivore |
eats only plants |
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omnivore |
eats both plants and other animals |
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carnivore |
eats only other animals |
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species |
group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring |
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phylum |
biological classified groups in the animal kingdom |
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vertebrate |
has a backbone |
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invertebrate |
has no backbone (but may have a spinal cord, like the worm) |
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heterotroph |
an animal that can't make food for itself and must obtain food by eating other organsisms |
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autotroph |
an organism that makes its own food |
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bilateral symmetry |
line symmetry |
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radial symmetry |
many lines of symmetry that all go through a central point |
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sexual reproduction |
the process by which a new organism forms from the joining of two sex cells |
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organ |
group of different tissues that work together to perform a specific job that is more complex than the functions |
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parasite |
organism that lives inside or on another organism |
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regeneration |
the ability to regrow body parts |
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adaptation |
characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment or reproduce |
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asexual reproduction |
process by which a single oranism produces a new organism identical to itself |
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organ |
group of different tissues that work together to perform a specific job that is more complex than the funtions of each tissue by itself |
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tissue |
group of similar cells that perform a specific job |
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fertilization |
the joining of egg and sperm |
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host |
the organism that the parasites feeds on and lives on |
