Glossary Words

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Living

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To be living, you never died and have a heartbeat and can breathe.

Question 1

Classification

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To classify something into a specific group.

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Non Living

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Something that was never alive.

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Dead

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Something that was alive and now is not.

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Unicellular

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An organism that has one cell.

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Multicellular

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An organism that has multiple cells.

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Kingdom

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A classification of which an organism is sorted into.

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Species

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A classification of certain animals which have similar features and behave in a common way.

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Animalea

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Is the plural word for Animalia and all the animals are apart of this Kingdom.

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Plantae

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All types of plants and flowers are apart of this Kingdom.

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Fungi

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All types of mushrooms, yeast, moulds and toadstools go into this Kingdom.

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Protista

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Are unicellular animals and plants that photosynthesise. (Absorb the sun light to get nutrients from carbon dioxide and water.)

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Monera

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Are unicellular organisms such as bacteria and parasites.

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Etymology

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Is the study of words and how and where they originated from.

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Binomial Nomenclature

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A system which gives an organism two terms to call it by. The first one being the genus and the second being an epithet.

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Dichotomous Key

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A key to organise the organisms into smaller groups.

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Vertebrate

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Has a back bone / spine.

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Invertebrate

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Does not have a back bone / spine.

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Exoskeleton

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Has the organisms skeleton on the outside of the body.

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Endoskeletons

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Have their skeletons inside of their body.

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Radial Symmetry

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Has symmetry in the central axis.

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Bilateral Axis

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Having symmetry in two halves.

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Placental Mammal

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A mammal that is born with an umbilical cord.

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Marsupial

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Are mammals that are born incomplete and are usually carried around in a pouch in their mothers tummy.

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Monotreme

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A mammal that lays eggs.

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Adaptation

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To adapt to an environment or something new.

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Arthropod

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An invertebrate animal, (no back bone), that’s part of the Arthropoda phylum, such as a spider, insects and a crustacean.

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Mollusc

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An invertebrate large phylum that lives in aquatic or damp habitats. These include, slugs, snails, mussels and octopuses. They have a strong she’ll or Endoskeletons on the outside and have an extremely soft part in the middle or somewhere on them.

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Echinoderm

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A marine invertebrate, like a sea star, sea urchin, or sea cucumber.

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Cnidarian

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An aquatic an invertebrate animal which exposes the coelenterates. (Coelenterates are aquatic animals that have only one opening in their body.)

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Porifera

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Aquatic invertebrates that expose the sponges of it.

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Annelid

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A segment (consisting or dividing into parts.) Such as an earthworm and leeches.

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Nematodes

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A type of worm that is part of the Nematoda phyla. Such as roundworm or threadworms.

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Platyhelminthes

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An invertebrate phylum which exposes the flatworms

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Endoparasite

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A parasite that lives on the outside of its host

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Exoparasite

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A parasite that lives on the inside of its host.

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Vector

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An organism, usually a biting insect that sends a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.

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Vascular plants

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Structures that transport liquid.

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Non vascular plants

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Don’t have vascular tissues, the plants cannot retain water or deliver it to other parts of the beings bodies.

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Algae

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Plants that live in water and photosynthesise to get nutrients. Usually uni cellular.

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Lichen

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A basic plant that grows slowly and usually forms a low crust, leaf like, or branches onto rocks, walls and trees.

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Taxonomist

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Classifies groups of biological organisms into a Kingdom based on its characteristics.

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Fern

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Flower less plant that has feathery or leafy fronds, reproduces by sending spores in the ground. They have a vascular system for the transport of water and nutrients

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Vascular

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Affecting, relating to , a vessel or multiple vessels, mainly vessels that carry blood.

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Birds

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Are usually flying animals that have wings and have feathers. It is warm blooded and lays eggs, it is also vertebrate.

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Amphibians

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Cold blooded, vertebrate animal that exposes the frogs, toads and along those lines. They are recognised by having a water breathing gill stage, larva stage and then has a lung breathing on land stage during adult life.

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Reptile

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Cold blooded, vertebrate animals, they are recognised by having a dry scaly skin, and usually lay soft eggs on land.

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Fish

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A limbless cold blooded vertebrate animal that has gills and fins and is an aquatic animal who can’t go on land.

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Microscope

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An optical object that helps you see very small things.