Animal Adaptation Quiz
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- fertilization
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes
- autotroph
- plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
- regeneration
- forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects)
- cells
- the basic unit of all living things
- parasite
- an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant)
- organ
- a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
- asymmetrical
- characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components
- vertibrate
- organisam with a backbone
- pray
- an organisam that is eaten by a predator
- tissue
- a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
- invertibrate
- organisam with no backbone
- segmented worms
- a group of worms with complex organ systems, a one-way digestive system, and bilateral symmetry
- species
- A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
- heterotroph
- an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
- radial symmetry
- Characterizing a body shaped like a pie or barrel, with many equal parts radiating outward like the spokes of a wheel; present in cnidarians and echinoderms
- herbivore
- An animal that feeds chiefly on plants.
- omnivore
- organisam that eats both meat and plants
- carnivore
- organisam that eats only meat
- sexual reproduction
- reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete
- phyla
- the second largest taxonomic category in the animal kingdom
- Animals
- multicellular organizim, heterotroph, need food water oxygen
- bilateral symmetry
- Characterizing a body form with a central longitudinal plane that divides the body into two equal but opposite halves
- host
- an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite
- predator
- an organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- asexual reproduction
- reproduction without the fusion of gametes