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quarter exam 3 Flashcards

1
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Primarily responsible for the idea that all life evolved from a common ancestor

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Charles darwin

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2
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The father of anatomy, also wrote fabrica

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Andreas veselias

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3
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teory that States that all organisms are made of cells

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Cell therory

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4
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The thing being tested in a experiment

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Indipendent variable

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5
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A tentative untested solution to a scientific problem

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hyppothesis

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6
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Devoted his life to microscopy

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Anton von lewenhook

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7
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The belief that all living things arose from nonliving things

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Spontainious generation

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Promotes the idea that the universe consistes of nothing but matter and energy

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Materialism

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9
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The lobed fish one thought to be the transitional form between fish and anphibians

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Coalisinth

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10
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The sudden outburst of living things in the fossil record

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Cambriann explosion

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11
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When organisms are more well suited to their environ ment to are more likely to survive than organism that are poorly suited for their environment

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Natural selection

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12
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The simple to complex sequence that evolution states should be in the fossile record

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The geologic column

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13
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The fully human ancestor that was named after the cave where the fossiles were found

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The cro magnon man

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14
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The occupation or function of an organism in an ecosystem

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Niche

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15
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A relationship in which both organisms benefit

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mutualism

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16
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Living factors in the environment

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Biotic factors

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17
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The area between the highest and lowest tides

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The intertidal zone

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18
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Feeds on detritus by breaking down molecules that becomes parts of the soil

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decomposer

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19
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Has jhharsh winters long summers and little to noo permafrost

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The northern coniferous forest

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20
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A large geographic region identified by its climax vegetation and distinctive animal life

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biome

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21
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Places where organisms liuve

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habitats

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22
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Used to describe one organioisms feeding relationship to other organisms in it’s ecosystems

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The trophic level

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23
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Primates with tails

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lemurs

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24
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Have a endosceliton backbone and bilateral symetry

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vertebrates

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25
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Feed on other animals

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carnivores

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detritovores

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Feed on decaying organic matter

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27
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Feed their young milk produced by mammary galnds

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mammals

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28
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Even toed ungulates

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Ariodactyles

29
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An ant eating mammal covered with protective plates of fused hair

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pangolin

30
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Gnawing animals with tow pairs of chisel like teath

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roodents

31
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Odd toed hoofed mammals that resemble pigs with a long snout or short trunk

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tapirs

32
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Allow birds to moisten their corneas without blocking their vision

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Nictitaating membrane

33
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Known for their fierce hunting skills

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Birds of prey

34
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Helps birds to grind their food

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gizzard

35
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Includes ducks, geese, herons, and storks

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waterbirds

36
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The process in which bird eggs are kept warm by an adult bird sitting on them

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inkubation

37
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Soft and fluffy feathers that provide insulation

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Down feathers

38
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Part of the perching bird group

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songbirds

39
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The voice box of the bird

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syrinkks

40
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Can run or swim almost immediately after hatching

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Precoccial birds

41
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Hatched featherless and helpless

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altricial

42
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Mostly ground dwelling birds designed for running

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Flightless birds

43
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Routes birds follow each year

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flyways

44
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The stiff quill of the feather

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rachhhis

45
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Birds have this kind of heart

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Four chambered

46
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Helps birds build nests reproduce and feed with minimal interferance

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territoriality

47
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Hunted for food and sport

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Game birds

48
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Egg layers

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oviparours

49
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The annual moving to a different region

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Migration

50
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The embrio develops in this

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The germinal spot

51
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Unlearned knowledge that a animal possesses from birth

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Instinct

52
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Includes geckos komodo dragons and chamilaians

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The lizard famiily

53
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Helps a snake smell

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The Jacobson’s organ

54
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Slender burrowing worm like anphibians that lack legs

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cecilains

55
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A condition where an animal retains larval characteristics

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pedomorphisis

56
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The ability to breathe through the skin

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Cutaneous resparation

57
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Includes boas and anaconda

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The boid family

58
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The largest living turtles

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Sea turtles

59
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Part of the salimindrie family

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newts

60
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Bring forth live from eggs from the mothers body

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Ovvovipipourous

61
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Blood poisen

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Hemotoxin

62
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Have pigment cells on the skin

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anphibians

63
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Large thickskined long tailed reptiles

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crocidilians

64
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Can regulate their body temperature by external factors

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Poikillothermic

65
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Venomous snakes with long fangs that fold against the roof of the mouth when not in use

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viperids

66
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Anphibians have this kind of heart

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Three chambered heart

67
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The snake movement in which the snake moves the front part of its boduyy forward coiles it slightly and then move the rest of its body forward

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Cocertinna movemennt

68
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Venomous snakes with immovable fangs in the front of the upper jaw

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elapids

69
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The process by whiicch an immature larval tranformes into an adult

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metamorphosis

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