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| cells | smallest unit of a living thing |
| microscope | used to study small details of a cell |
| cell membrane | animal and plant cells have this |
| fungi | lives on land and absorbs it food from other things |
| nucleus | controls the cell's activities |
| vascular plants | has a tubelike structure that connects all the organs of the plant: grass, trees |
| nonvascular plants | no system of support, pass water and nutrients only from cell to cell: mosses, hornworts, liverworts |
| similar cells | can have different jobs in the plant system |
| flowering plants | make their own seeds and provide food for people and animals |
| conifers | pine trees - make seeds but do not have flowers |
| spores | ferns and mosses reproduce by forming tiny cells that can grow into a new plant |
| vertebrate | animal with a back bone |
| invertebrate | animal without a back bone |
| group of vertebrates | fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and us (mammals) |
| Burmese python | mates, lays eggs, stays with eggs until hatched, can live for 25 years |
| arthropods | animals with jointed legs, largest group of invertebrates: spiders, crabs, insects |
| exoskeleton | hard, lightweight outer skin |
| adaptation | physical feature or behavior that helps an animal get food, protect itself, move, or reproduce |
| inherited traits | inherit our eye color and hair color |
| instincts | migration and hiberation; behaviors animals are born knowing |
| vertebrates | animals with backbones |
| invertebrates | largest group of animal kingdom |
| cell | basic unit of living organism that can perform all life processes |
| species | second part of organism name; group of living things that are so much alike they can reproduce |
| cytoplasm | gel-like liquid inside a cell |
| nucleus | controls a cell's activities |
| chlorplast | cell part that plants use to make food |
