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Biology Evolution and Tree of Life Vocabulary for Prentice Hall Biology Textbook

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Domain   most inclusive taxonomy category: larger than a kingdom  
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Taxon   level of orgnization into which animals are classified  
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Binomial nomenclature   two name in Latin system  
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Taxonomy   the study of classifiying organisms  
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Eukaryote   cell with a nucleus and membrane bound organelles  
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Prokaryote   cell without the stuff of a eukaryote  
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KPCOFGS   Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species  
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Dichotomous key   set of instructions to classify something, like in the magazine quizzes  
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Classification   organizing organisms into categories  
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Protista   The protist kingdom  
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Fungi   The Fungi kingdom  
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Animalea   The animal kingdom  
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Plantae   The plant kingdom  
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Eubacteria   kingdom of unicellular prokaryotes with peptidoglycan  
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Archaebacteria   kindgom of unicellular prokaryotes with cell walls containing peptidoglycan  
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Bacilus   rod  
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Coccus   spheriacl prokaryote  
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Spirilium   spiral prokaryote  
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Chemoheterotroph   organism that must take in organic molecules for energy and carbon  
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Photoheterotroph   organism that is photosynthetic but needs organic compounds as a carbon source  
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Photoautotrpoh   organism that is photosynthetic and and converts Co2 nd water into carbon compounds  
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Chemoautotrpoh   an organism that uses chemical reaction for energy to create organic carbon molecules  
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Obligate Aerobe   An organism that requires constant oxygen to survive  
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Obligate Anaerobe   an organism that does not need constant oxygen to survive  
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Faculttive Anaerobe   organismt hat can survive with or without oxygen  
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Binary Fission   asexual reproduction in which a cell splits into two identical daughter cells  
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Nitrogen Fixation   converting nitrogen gas into ammonia  
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Peptidoglycan    
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Dinoflagellates    
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Diatoms    
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Spore   haploid reproductive cell  
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Hypha   tiny filament that makes up a fungi or mold  
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Chitin   carb that makes up a fungi cell wall and anthropod exoskeleton  
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Mycelium   many hyphae tangled together into a thick mass with is a fungi  
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Bryophyte   non vascular plant  
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Xylem   Vascular plant tissue that carries water throughout the body  
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Phloem   Vacular plant tissue responsible for carrying nutrients and carbs through the body  
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Gymnosperms   seed plant that uses cones  
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Angiosperms   seed plant that bears seed directly in protective tissue  
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Taproot   one long palnt root extending downwards  
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Fibrous root   tangle of root fibres that extend in all directions  
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Sepal   outermost circle of flower parts that protect the bud while developing  
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Petal   brightly colored structure inside sepals that attracts pollinators  
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Stamen   male part of flower  
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Anther   flower stucture that produces male stuff is produced  
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Carpel   innermost part of flower that produces female stuff  
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Ovary   flwoer structure that contains ovules  
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Compound flower   Flower made up of many tiny ones, like a sunflower  
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Fruit   wall of tissue surrounding seed  
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Dormancy   “sleeping” a period of no growth or development  
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Invertebrate   animals without a backbone  
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Vertebrate   animal with a backbone  
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Feedback inhibition    
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Radial symmetry   when any two opposite sides of the animal are symmetrical  
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Billateral symmetry   when you can cut the animal in half and the two sides will be symmetrical  
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Cephalizaiton   when most sensory organs are in one place, like a head  
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Exoskeleton   hard shell on most inverterbrates  
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Endoskeleton   inner skeleton  
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Open circulatory system   system in which most blood flows through tissue  
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Closed Circulaotry system   system in which most blood flows through closed circulatory system  
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Coelem   fluid filled body cavity  
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Endotherm   animal that controls its own body heat from within  
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Ectotherm   animal that uses its environment to maintain body temperature  
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Mollusks   soft bodied animals with internal or external shells  
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Cephalothorax   the location on an arthropod where the heads meets the thorax  
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Foot   one large muscle used for movement in mollusks  
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Anus   place where excrements come out form  
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Mantle   thin layer of tissue covering a mollusks body  
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Radula   tong shaped structure used for feeding by some mollusks  
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Visceral Mass   ara beneath mollusks’ mantle containing organs  
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Cephalopods   head on foot  
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Molting   shedding a shell or external layer  
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Arthropods   invertebrates with segmented bodies, joint appendages, and tough bodies  
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Chordate   animal with a spinal chord  
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Notochord   central nervous chord running down the back  
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Vertebra   parts of the backbone, we have 33  
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Placental   sac in which fetuses will develop  
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Pheromone   specific chemical messenger that can affect behavior or devlopement within species  
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Adaptive radiation   when animals become more different through natural selection,  
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Mammary glands   glands producing milk in animals used to feed young  
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Alveolus   tiny air sac at the end of lungs that provides surface area for gas exchange (CO2 to Oxygen, for example)  
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Telson   the last segment on an arthropod's body  
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Three Domains   Eukarya, Eubacteria, Archaebacteria  
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Evolution   Theory that organisms change over time through natural selection  
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Theory   A well supported body of evidence  
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Hypothesis   A proposed scientific explanation for any phenomena  
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Fossil   Preserved remains or evidence of an ancient organism  
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Artificial Selection   When humans favor one trait over another and it becomes more common in a population  
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NAtural Selection   When an adaptation that best suits an animal to its environment becomes most common in a population through that organism's reproductive success  
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Selection pressures   any factors in an environment that might lead to certain adaptations being more adapt  
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Fitness   an organism's level of aptitude to survive its environment  
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Adaptation   Any mutation that suits an organism to its environment  
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Variation   A difference between two or more organisms that may make one better suited for survival than the other  
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Homologous Structure   structures amongst organisms that look similar in embryonic stage, but are different when matures  
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Biogeography    
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Embryology   the study of organism whilst in embryonic stages  
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Paleontology   the study of fossils  
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Transitional Fossils   fossils used to show a link between two fossils  
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Vestigial Organs   organs that have shrunk because of continued disuse  
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Gene pool   the collection of all the alleles in any given population  
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Allele frequency   The frequency of a certain allele in a gene pool  
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Polygenic traits   traits that depend on more than one trait  
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Single gene trait   traits that depend on only one gene  
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Genetic drift   when, for no true reason, a certain trait becomes more pronounced than another with no true reason  
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Directional Selection   when organisms at one end of the curve are more fit than those at the other, so most of the population is of that one kind, that one extreme  
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Stabilizing Selection   when organisms at the middle of the curve, the average, are more likely to survive  
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Disruptive selection   when organisms at either ends of the curves are more likely to survive, and there are no averages  
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Speciation   the process by which one species can split into two  
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Reproductive isolation   when two different members of a species become isolated because they do not reproduce together, then they evolve individually, into different species  
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Behavioral Isolation   when organisms do not mate because of different mating behaviors  
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Geographic Isolation   when organisms do not mate because of a separating geographic element, like a lake or desert  
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Temporal Isolation   when organisms do not mate because of different mating times or seasons  
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Founder effect   when a random group of members of a population founds a new population, where their traits are more pronounced, not because of natural selection  
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Extinction   when no members of a species exist alive any more  
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Genetic Markers   gene that makes it possible to distinguish bacteria that carry a plasmid foreign DNA, and those that do not  
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Acclimatization   when a species becomes better acclimatized to their environment  
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Acquired Characteristics   characteristics a population acquires through natural or artificial selection  
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Mutation   a random change in an organism’s genetic makeup  
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Bipedalism   walking on two feet  
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Binocular vision   seeing out of two eyes  
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Hominid   primate that walks upright, with apposabel thumbs, with large brains, the only living members are humans  
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Relative time   dating something in relation to something else  
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Absolute time   dating something with a true date  
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Half life   the time it takes for half or the remaining radioactive isotope in any place to decay  
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Index Fossil   a fossil used to date another, it must be widespread and recognizable  
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Geologic Time scale   scale used to represent evolutionary time  
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Endosymbiotic Theory   the theory that eukaryotes evolved from symbiotic prokaryotes  
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Viviparous   Animals that bear live young nourished directly from the mother  
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Oviparous   Animals whose egges hatch outside the mother's body  
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Ovoviviparous   animals whose eggs hatch inside the mother after developing  
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