Adaptations Vocab
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| Physical Characteristics | a feature of an animal that is primarily (mostly) sensory; a trait
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| Adaptation | an inherited trait that helps a species survive in it's enviornment
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| inherited | passed on genetically or received from an ancestor
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| physiological adaptation | an adaptation that involves a body parts job of controlling a life process
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| gene | basic unit of heredity
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| acquired trait | learned trait (ie. language). It is a result of our environment
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| inherited trait | characteristic resulting from an organisms interaction with the environment
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| hibernation | sleeplike state during which breathing and heart rates slow down.
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| estivation | similar to hibernation (shorter duration)
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| migration | movement from one place to another for different part of the year
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| territory | space that an animal defends or protects against other animals of it's own kind
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| primates | an order of mammals in the animal kingdom
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| ancestor | a parent organism from which an offspring descended
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| evolution | the process by which life forms change over a number of generations
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| bipedal | walking upright (on two feet)
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| extinct | no longer existing
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| adapt | development of physical and behavioral characteristics that allow organisms to survive and reproduce in thier habitats
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