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Life Sci - Chap 14
vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| embryo | plant or animal in an early stage of development |
| consumer | organism that eats other organisms or organic matter |
| innate behavior | inherited behavior that does not depend on the environment or experience |
| learned behavior | behavior that has been learned from experience |
| territory | an area that is occupied by one animal or group of animals that do not allow other members of the species to enter |
| hibernation | period of inactivity and lowered body temperature that some animals undergo in winter as a protection against cold weather and lack of food |
| estivation | period of inactivity and lowered body temperature that some animals undergo in summer as a protection against hot weather and lack of food |
| circadian rhythm | biological daily cycle |
| social behavior | interaction between animals of the same species |
| communication | transfer of a signal or message from one animal to another that results in some type of response |
| pheromone | substance that is released by the body and that causes another individual of the same species to react in a predictable way |