Chapter 3 Vocabulary Cards on Brainscape Flashcards
classify
gruop thing based on the features they share
phylum
sudbivision of a kindom plural is phyla
genus
A gruop of living things that inccludes separte species
species
a group of organisms that can breed with each other to produce offspring like themselves
scientific name
the name given to each specie consisting of its geuns and its specis label
vetebrate
an animal with a back bones
cartilage
a soft material fuond in vertebrate skeletons
vertebra
one of the bones or block of cartilage that make up a backbones
gill
A stucture used by some animals to breatha in water
swim bladder
a gas filled organ that alows a bony fish to move up and down in the water
amphibian
A vertebrate that lives at fist the water and then on land
metamorphosis
A major chang in from that occurs as some animals delop into adults
reptile
An egg laying vertebrate that breathes with lungs
cold blooede
having a body temperature that changs with temperature of surroundings
warm blooded
having a body temperature that stays the same