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Life Science 011A Flashcards

1
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This is the largest phylum group.

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Phylum Arthopoda

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This phylum has specialized cells that carry out function. This phylum lacks specialized organs and generally live under water, with a few freshwater species. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

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Phylum Porifera

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This kingdom has autotrophic and heterotrophic species. They are unicellular, live in extreme conditions, and prokaryotic.

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Archaebacteria

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This phylum includes the simplest of all species and they do not have a brain, gut, or nerves.

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Phylum Porifera

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The name of this phylum means “pore-bearer”

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Phylum Porifera

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This phylum has bilaterial symmetry with a dorsal and ventral strucutre. This phylum contains complex organ systems but no circulatory system.

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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This phylum do not have a respiratory system. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged across their skin by diffusion.

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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This phylum was the first to have eyespots.

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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This phylum has two interior ganglia that control a nervous system. They are generally found in marine, freshwater, and damp terrestrial habitats.

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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This phylum may be free living or parasitic

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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This phylum may be free living or parasites

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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This is a phylum of soft-bodied bilaterally symmetrical usually much flattened invertebrates.

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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This is a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals that comprises the sponges

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Phylum Porifera

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This is a phylum of invertebrate animals with a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a calcareous shell

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Phylum Mollusca

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This phylum includes snails, clams, or squids

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Phylum Mollusca

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This phylum includes species with thousands of little pores, such as sponges

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Phylum Porifera

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This phylum includes species of flatworms.

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

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18
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This phylum includes hydra

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Phylum Cnidaria

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This phylum includes sea anemones and corals

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Phylum Cnidaria

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This phylum includes jellyfish

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Phylum Cnidaria

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This phylum has radial symmetry and the species in this phylum can have more than one body form.

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Phylum Cnidaria

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This phylum was the first to have tissues

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Phylum Cnidaria

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This phylum has two district body plans: the medusa and the polyp.

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Phylum Cnidaria

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This phylum has species with tentacles with stinging nematocysts.

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Phylum Cnidaria

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The name of this phylum means “stinging creature”.

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Phylum Cnidaria

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26
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This phylum contains roundwords

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Phylum Nematoda

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The species of this phylum are widely distributed. They live in soils, fresh water, and marine water. Most are free living and many of them are parasitic.

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Phylum Nematoda

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28
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This phylum is also called roundworms

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Phylum Nematoda

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This phylum is bilaterally symmetrical and triploblastic. Their bodies resemble a tiny thread like structure.

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Phylum Nematoda

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This is a phylum of worms with slender, unsegmented, cylindrical bodies

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Phylum Nematoda

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This phylum includes roundworms and threadworms.

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Phylum Nematoda

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32
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Species in this phylum are found abundantly in soil and water. Many species of this phylum are parasites.

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Phylum Nematoda

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33
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This phylum can be associated with spiny coverings.

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Phylum Echinodermata

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34
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This phylum is associated with a large foot with many shells

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Phylum Mollusca

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35
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This phylum has a segmented body

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Phylum Annelida

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36
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The species in this phylum has joined appendages

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Phylum Arthopoda

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37
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The evolutionary milestone of this phylum was multicellularity

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Phylum Porifera

38
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The evolutionary milestone of this phylum was tissues

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Phylum Cnidaria

39
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The evolutionary milestone of this phylum was bilateral symmetry

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Phylum Platyhelminthes

40
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The evolutionary milestone of this phylum was pseudocoelom.

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Phylum Nematoda

41
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The evolutionary milestone of this phylum was segmentation

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Phylum Annelida

42
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The evolutionary milestone of this phylum was deuterostomes

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Phylum Echinodermata

43
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The evolutionary milestone of this phylum was a notochord

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Phylum Chordata

44
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This phylum includes clams

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Phylum Mollusca

45
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This phylum includes squids

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Phylum Mollusca

46
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This phylum includes snails

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Phylum Mollusca

47
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This phylum includes earthwords

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Phylum Annelida

48
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This phylum includes leeches

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Phylum Annelida

49
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This phylum includes insects

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Phylum Arthopoda

50
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This phylum includes crustaceans

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Phylum Arthopoda

51
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This phylum includes spiders

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Phylum Arthopoda

52
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This phylum includes starfish

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Phylum Echinodermata

53
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This phylum includes vertebrates.

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Phylum Chordata

54
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This phylum includes humans.

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Phylum Chordata

55
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This phylum includes octopuses

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Phylum Mollusca

56
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The species in this phylum are divided into a head, visceral mass, muscular foot, and mantle.

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Phylum Mollusca

57
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This phylum contains species with soft bodies protected by a shell.

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Phylum Mollusca

58
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This phylum includes bivalves.

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Phylum Mollusca

59
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This phylum includes cephalopods

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Phylum Mollusca

60
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This phylum includes gastropods

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Phylum Mollusca

61
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This phylum has a specialized tongue called a radulla

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Phylum Mollusca

62
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This phylum has a name that means “little rings”

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Phylum Annelida

63
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This phylum has segments that are separated by septa.

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Phylum Annelida

64
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In species of this phylum, each segment has its own fluid-filled cavity which contains a part of the animals’s coelom.

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Phylum Annelida

65
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This phylum includes oysters

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Phylum Mollusca

66
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This phylum has species that are bilaterally symmetrical and have a true coelom, often divided by internal partitions (eucoelomate)

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Phylum Annelida

67
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The species in this phylum have an exoskeleton.

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Phylum Arthopoda

68
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This phylum has a chitinous exoskeleton for support and protection.

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Phylum Arthopoda

69
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The species in this phylum grow by molting

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Phylum Arthopoda

70
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This phylum is characterized by jointed appendages, true coelomates, an open circulatory system, and advanced nervous and muscular systems.

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Phylum Arthopoda

71
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The species in this phylum have radial symmetry and they can regenerate themselves.

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Phylum Echniodermata

72
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The species in this phylum are characterized by tube feet

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Phylum Echniodermata

73
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The name of this phylum means “spiny skin”

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Echinodermata

74
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The species in this phylum has a dorsal nerve cord

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Phylum Chordata

75
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This species in this phylum have a post-anal tail

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Phylum Chordata

76
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The species in this phylum have pharyngeal slits

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Phylum Chordata

77
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E. coli is considered to be in what kingdom?

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Eubacteria

78
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Species in this kingdom are unicellular, prokaryotic, and live in normal human conditions.

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Eubacteria

79
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Paramecium is considered to be in what kingdom?

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Protists

80
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Euglena is considered to be in what kingdom?

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Protista

81
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Species in this kingdom are classified by how they move. Some are autotrophic and some are heterotrophic. The majority of these species are unicellular, with some multicellular species.

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Protista

82
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Amoeba is a part of what kingdom?

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Protista

83
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Most of the species in this kingdom are multicellular, with some unicellular species. All of them are heterotrophic and eukaryotic.

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Fungi

84
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The species in this kingdom are multicellular, eukaryotic, and autotrophic.

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Plantae

85
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This kingdom includes mold

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Fungi

86
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This kingdom includes mushrooms

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Fungi

87
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This kingdom includes moss

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Plantae

88
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The species in this kingdom are multicellular, eukaryotic, and heterotrophic.

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Animalia

89
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a diagram used to represent a hypothetical relationship between groups of animals

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Cladogram

90
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the history of the evolution of a species or group, especially in reference to lines of descent and relationships among broad groups of organisms.

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Phylogeny

91
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type of tree that shed all of their leaves at a specific time/event

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deciduous tree

92
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type of tree that do NOT shed all of their leaves at a specific time/event

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coniferous tree

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