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