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Module 3 Vocabulary
Vocabulary Traits Module
Term | Definition |
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Individual | a single organism |
Growth | an individual getting bigger over time |
Development | changes in an individual’s characteristics or traits throughout the individual’s life |
Death | the end of an individual’s life |
Camouflage | an organism blending in with its surroundings because of its natural coloring or form |
Birth | the beginning of an individual’s life |
Advantage | a better position or condition |
Behavior | the way an organism acts or responds to its environment |
Inherit | to receive traits from one’s parents |
Life Cycle | the continuing processes of birth, growth and development, and reproduction of many individuals in a species |
Mate | the individual with which another individual produces one or more offspring through the process of reproduction |
Reproduction | the production of offspring by two adult individuals |
Species | organisms that have the same characteristics and can reproduce with one another |
Traits | differences in the characteristics of individuals of the same species |
Unique | one of a kind |
Variation | differences between individuals in a species |