| A | B |
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| omnivore | eats both plants and animals |
| Community | different populations that live together in an area |
| Asexual Reproduction | The process by which a single organism produces a new organisms identical to itself |
| Herbivore | eats only plants |
| Food chain | series of events in which one organism eats another |
| Marsupial | a mammal whose young are born alive at an early stage of development, and which usually continue to develop in a pouch on their mother's body |
| Mammary Glands | The organs that produce the milk with which mammals feed their young |
| Instinct | inborn behavior pattern that an animal performs correctly the first time |
| Commensalism | relationship between two species in which one species beb=nefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed |
| Spontaneous Generation | a supposed development of living organisms from nonliving matter |
| Decomposer | organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms |
| Autotroph | organism that makes its own food |
| population | all members of one species in a particular area |
| mammals | a vertebrate with a four-chambered heart, skin covered with fur or hair, and which hs young fed with milk from the mothers body |
| Placental mammals | A mammal that develops inside its mothers body until its body systems can function independently |
| Conditioning | The process of learning to connect a stimulus with a good or bad event |
| Imprinting | A process by which newly hatched birds or newborn mammals learn how to follow the first object it sees |
| Predation | an interaction in which one organism kills and eats another |
