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Animals
Term | Definition |
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adaptation | A behavior of a living thing that helps it survive. |
life cycle | Growth, development, reproduction and death of an animal. |
species | A group of living things that can produce more of the same kind of living things. |
embryo | The earliest stage of an animal's development |
nymph | The stage of a life cycle in which an insect looks like a smaller version of an adult. |
adult | The last stage of a life cycle. |
larva | The wormlike stage of an insect's life in which it doesn't look like the adult insect it will become. |
pupa | An insect's enclosed cocoon or case stage. |
egg | The first stage of the life cycle of most animals. |
complete metamorphosis | The four-stage life cycle of a butterfly that goes from egg to larva to pupa to adult. |
incomplete metamorphosis | The three-stage life cycle of an insect that goes from egg to nymph to adult. |