Term | Definition |
Behavioral Adaptations | help survive, can be learned or instinctive. |
Symbiotic Adaptations | long term relationships between organisms |
1. commensalism | one animal benefits it, the other one does not affect it. |
2. mutualism | when both animals benefit |
3. parasitism | one animal (the parasite) benefits and harms the host. |
Physical Adaptation | physical features of an organism |
The vorses | omnivores-eat and plants herbivores- plants carnivores-meat |
Tissue | a group of similar cells that perform a certain function. |
organ | a body part that performs a certain function. Made up of tissue |
organ system | groups of organs working together |
radial | if imaginary lines can be drawn to divide it into mirror images |
bilateral | if only one line of symmetry can be drawn to divide it into halves that are mirror images. |
asymmetrical | no symmetry |
Radial symmetry organisms | no front or back, live in water, no heads or specialized sense organs. |
bilateral symmetry organisms | larger and complex, complex organ system, streamlined bodies, have heads in front with specialized sense organs and nervous system. |