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Life cycles
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Term | Definition |
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learned behavior | A behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught. |
Inherrited trait | A charachteristic that is passed from parents to their offspring. |
Reproduce | Makeing more animals of the same kind. |
Life cycle | The stages of growth and development that an animal goes through in its life. |
Metamorphosis | The name for changes in form some insects go through during their life cycle. |
Larva | The small,worm like stage in the life cycle of some insects. |
Pupa | The stage in the life cycle of some insects when the organisam becomes from a larva to an adult. |
Nymph | The larva stage of some organism that resembles the adult directly, without passing through an intermidet stage. |
Complete metamorphysis | A life cycle with four distiant stages:egg,larva,pupa,and adult. |
Incomplete metamorphosis | A life cycle with three distant stages:egg, nymph, and adult. |