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Agnatha

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JAWLESS FISH with an internal skeleton made of cartilage, lampreys and hagfish are examples

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Amphibians

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Chordates that live both in and out of water.

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Annelids

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Phylum of the animal kingdom consisting of the segmented worms, such ads leeches and earthworms.

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Arthropods

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Animals with an exoskeleton and joined limbs, such as crabs and insects.

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Aves

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Animals with feathers covering their body, lay hard shelled eggs and are endothermic.

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Cartilage

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Flexible material from which the skeletons of Agnatha and Chondrichthyes are made.

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Cells

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The building blocks of all living things.

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Chondrichthyes

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Fish with proper jaws and teeth, skeleton made of cartilage and fins on the sides of their bodies as well as along their backs. Such as sharks and rays.

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Class

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The level under phylum in the classification of living things

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Chordates

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Animals with a nerve chord running down their backs, and a endoskeleton.

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Classification

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The process of putting things into groups

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Cnidarians

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Animals with radial symmetry, one body opening and stinging cells. Such as jellyfish,sea anemone and coral polyps.

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Conifers

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Plants that bear their seeds on cones and have male and female cones on the same tree, such as cypress, fir and hoop pine.

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Cycads

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Plants that bear their seeds in cones and have male and female cones on seperate plants

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Decomposers

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Organisms that get the energy they need from breaking down dead matter and waste products.

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Dichotomies key

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A key with two choices at the end of each stage

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Division

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The level below kingdom in the classification of plants

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Echinoderm

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Radially symmetrical animals. Examples, starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers.

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Ectothermic

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Animals with a body temperature that varies with the temperature of surroundings

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Endoskeleton

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A skeleton inside the body

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Endothermic

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Animals with a body temperature controlled internally

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Exoskeleton

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A skeleton on the outside of the body.

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Family

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The level in the classification system below order and above genus

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Ferns

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Plants that reproduce using spores and have a vascular system for transporting food and water throughout the plant.

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Flowering plants

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Plants that produce seeds fully protected inside an ovary.

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Fungi

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One of the five kingdoms of living things , multicellular or unicellular organisms with a cell wall as the outer covering and a distinct nucleus.

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Genus

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The level in the classification system bellow family and above species.

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Ginkgo

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Trees with seperate male and female plants.pollen is produced in cones. The female tree produces fleshy coated seeds.

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Invertebrates

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Animals without backbones

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Kingdom

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The first level of classification

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Liverworts

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Plants with no vascular tissue which reproduce using spores

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Macroscopic

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Able to be seen without the help of a microscope

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Mammals

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A class that includes all the animals that have a body covering of hair and feed their babies on milk produced by the mother.

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Microscopic

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Cannot be seen without the help of a microscope.

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Molluscs

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Phylum of animals that are bilaterally symmetrical, have well developed internal organs and have a muscular foot which they use to move along

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Monera

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One of the five kingdoms of living things;single celled organisms without a distinct nucleus

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Mosses

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Plants with no vascular tissue that reproduce using spores.

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Multicellular

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Made of many cells.

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Nematodes

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Phylum of the animal kingdom consisting of round worms

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Order

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The level in the classification system bellow class and above order.

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Osteichthyes

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The bony fish for example barramundi tuna, eels, sea horse and lungfish

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Parasite

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Organisms that live on or in another organism called a host., the hostage get noting in return and may be harmed

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Pest species

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An animal species that causes problems and is not wanted in an area.

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Phylum

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The second level of classification of living things, below kingdom and above class.

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Plant

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One of the five kingdoms of living things multicellular organisms with a cellulose cell wall as the outer layer and a distinct nucleus

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Platyhelminthes

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Phylum of the animal kingdom consisting of flatworms.

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Poriferans

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Phylum of the animal kingdom consisting of the sponges.

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Reptiles

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Animals with scales covering the body, ectotherms most of which lay leathery shelled eggs.

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Seed producing plants

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Plants that reproduced using seeds

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Species

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The last level of classification of living things

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Taxonomy

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The science of grouping and naming things

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Taxononimist

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A scientist who specialises in grouping and naming things.,

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Unicellular

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Made of only one cell

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Vascular system

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System of hollow tubes or vessels which transport water and nutrients around an organism

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Vertebrates

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Animals with backbones

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Weed

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A group name for any plant growing where it does not belong.

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