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Classifying Organism
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Classification | The science of organizing categories for living things. |
| Kingdom | The largest group into which an organism can be classified. |
| Species | A group of similar organisms in a genus that can reproduce more of their own kind. |
| Vertebrate | An animal that has a backbone. |
| invertebrate | An animal that does not have a backbone. |
| Asymmetrical | Something that cannot be divided into mirror images |
| Bilateral symmetry | A body plan in which an organism can be divided along only one plane of its body to produce two mirror images |
| Marsupial | A mammal in which the female has a pouch where offspring develop after birth |
| Monotreme | The mass of an object multiplied by its velocity. |
| Placental Mammal | A mammal whose young develops within the mother |
| Radial symmetry | A body plan in which all body parts of an organism are arranged around a central point |