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Doering Chpt 4 Scien
Doering 4 Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Life span | How long an organism is expected to live |
| Adaptation | A trait that helps and organism survive |
| Mimicry | When one organism imitates the traits of another. |
| Heredity | The passing of traits from parent to offspring |
| metamorphosis | A process of changes in form during an animal's development. |
| Life Cycle | The stages of growth and change of an organism's life. |
| Fertilization | The joining of a female cell, the egg and a male cell, the sperm to produce a fertilized egg. |
| Embryo | A developing organism that results from fertilization |
| Budding | a form of reproduction in simple invertebrates where a bud forms on the adult's body and slowly develops into a new organism before breaking off. |
| Cloning | When a whole animal develops from just a part of the original animal |
| Instinct | A pattern of behavior that reqauires no thining because it is programmed into an animals's brain. It is a compkicated interited behavior |
| Inherited | A behavior or trait that is inborn, not learned |
| Camouflage | An adaptation by which an animal can hide by blending in with its surroundings |
| Stages of metamorphosis | 1. egg stage 2. larva stage 3. pupa stage 4. adult stage |
| Behaviors | These are not inborn but are learned |
| Order of food digestion | mouth - esophagus - stomach - small intestine - large intestine - waste |