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Life Science Set 1
Vocab for classification and heredity
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | any living thing |
| animal classification | 5 animal groups: fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians |
| vertebrate | an animal with a backbone |
| invertebrate | an animal without a backbone |
| trait | characteristic of an organism |
| heredity | the process through which traits are passed from parents to offspring |
| inherited trait | trait that is passed on from parents |
| learned behavior | traits that are learned from the environment around them or are taught |
| instinct | a way of knowing something without learning or thinking about it |
| physical trait | what you can see on an organism |
| flowering plant | a plant that produces flowers; an angiosperm |
| non-flowering plant | a plant that does not ever produce flowers; a gymnosperm |
| seeds | the unit of reproduction of a flowering plant |
| seedless | no seeds, instead make spores (a spore is like a seed, but does not contain a complete new plant) |
| vascular | having a tube like water transport system |
| nonvascular | does not have a water transport system |
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