- Specimen: Human
- Location: in my dining room
- Relates to term: the skin covers the entire body surface.
- Definition: any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions
- Species: Deer antler
- Location: on my back porch
- Relates to term: It's a connective tissue because the structure of bone is many cells connected together by an extracellular matrix.
- Definition: type of animal tissue: animal tissue that supports, connects, and surrounds organs and other body parts and consists mainly of collagen, elastic and reticular fibers, fatty tissue, cartilage, or bone.
- Species: Moss
- Location: In my back yard.
- Relates to term: this is a moss.
- Definition: phase producing male and female cells: in the life cycle of organisms such as mosses, fungi, and algae which have two distinct alternating forms, the form in which sex organs and gametes are produced
- Specimen: Cleaner shrimp
- Location: sea world
- Relates to term: The cleaner shrimp eats the stuff it cleans off the reef while the reef neither benefits nor gets harmed.
- Definition: Commensalism: An association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
- Specimen: Western salsify
- Location: I found it in my front yard but I took the picture on the table that is on my porch.
- Relates to term: The plant has loose seeds with things that catch the wind as it blows, scattering the seeds.
- Definition: Seed Dispersal: is the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and consequently rely upon a variety of dispersal vectors to transport their propagules, including both abiotic and biotic vectors.
- Specimen: Walnut tree
- Location: In my front yard by my driveway.
- Relates to term: Its an organism that doesn't consume other organisms for food. The tree makes its own food.
- Definition: Autotroph: An oganism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
- Specimen: Baby Sharks
- Location: At my aunt's house in Florida.
- Relates to term: There are a group of sharks here in the picture.
- Definition: Ecology. a. the assemblage of a specific type of organism living in a given area. b. all the individuals of one species in a given area.
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