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classifying organism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 there own kind |
| vertebrate | an animal that has a back bone |
| invertebrate | an animal that doesn't have a back bone |
| asymmetrical | something cannot be divided into mirror images |
| radial symmetry | a body plan in which all body parts of an organism are arranged around a central point |
| bilateral symmetry | a body plan in which an organism can be divided along only one plane of it's body to produce two mirror images |
| monotreme | a mammal that lays eggs |
| marsupial | a mammal in which the female has a pouch where offspring develop after birth |
| placental mammal | a mammal whose young develope in the mothers body |