Epithelial Tissue

• 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

Connective Tissue

• 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.

Gametophyte

• 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

Commensalism

• 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.

Seed Dispersal

• 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.

Autotroph

• 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.

Population

• 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.

Radial Symmetry (animal)

• Specimen: Sand-dollar
• Location: Taken at my aunt Cindy's house in Florida.
• Relates to term: The sand-dollar is an animal who lives on the sea floor. its a perfectly round animal with its alive and sometimes dead
• Definition: A basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish.

Genetic Variation with in a population

• Specimen: American Alligator
• Location: Gatorland in Florida
• Relates to term: The alligator is partially albino, it has partial absence of pigment.
• Definition: Genetic Variation: refers to diversity in gene frequencies. Genetic variation can refer to differences between populations. Mutation is the ultimate source of genetic variation, but mechanisms such as sexual reproduction and genetic drift contribute to it as well.

Heterotroph

• Specimen: Python
• Location: Gulf Breeze Zoo
• Relates to term: The snake cannot produce its own food, it must eat other living things in order to survive making it a heterotroph.
• Definition: Heterotroph: An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

Territorial Behavior

• Specimen: Shih Tzu
• Location: At Levi's house, the dog's name is Ziggy.
• Relates to term: The dog is marking its territory by urinating on things claiming it his territory.
• Definition:  in zoology, the methods by which an animal, or group of animals, protects its territory from incursions by others of its species. Territorial boundaries may be marked by sounds such as bird song, or scents such as pheromones secreted by the skin glands of many mammals.

Vascular Plant

• Species: Roses
• Location: At my boyfriends house, his mom loves roses.
• Relates to term: A rose bush has roots, leaves with a network of tissue that is vascular in its plant body that goes through its entire body.
• Definition: Vascular Plant: A plant which possessess a well-developed system of conducting tissue to transport water, mineral salts and sugars.

 Another Picture of T.T.

Parasitism

• Specimens: Dog. Tick
• Location: at my grandparent's.
• Relates to term: The parasite, being the tick, is sucking blood off the host.
• Definition: parasitic behavior: symbiosis in which one organism lives as a parasite in or on another organism.

Predation

(talking About the deer photo)
• Specimen: Deer
• Location: At my Great Grandmother's land.
• Relates to term: I, being the predator, killed this animal, the prey, and ate it.
• Definition: Preying of one species on another: the relationship between two groups of animals in which one species hunts, kills, and eats the other.

The other picture is just for fun, its my cat T.T. preying on her toy that's on the other side of the door.

Pollinator

• Specimen: Blue Mason Bee
• Location: I found it in my backyard as I was hunting for these things.
• Relates to term: This little bug goes from flower to flower collecting pollen. As they are doing so they are pollinating plants as they rub another flowers pollen onto a different flower pollinating it.
• Definition: one that pollinates: as. (2) an agent (as an insect) that pollinates flowers.

Bilateral symmetry

• Specimen: Red-Spotted Purple
• Location: At my boyfriend's house in Jay.
• Relates to term: the butterfly's wings are the same on both sides.
• Definition: A basic body plan in which the left and right sides of the organism can be divided into approximate mirror images of each side being a mirror image of the other.

Mutualism

• Specimen: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
• Location: Picture was taken on my grandparent's porch at their house in Wyandotte.
• Relates to term: How this relationship is considered mutualism is because as the hummingbird is getting the nectar (benefiting the bird) it also gets the flower's pollen on it and as the bird fly from one flower o the next it gets the pollen on other flowers (benefiting the flower's chance of reproduction).
• Definition: Mutualism: Advantageous relationship between species: a relationship between two organisms of different species that benefits both and harms neither.

Scale from animal with Two-chambered heart

• Specimen: Longnose Gar
• Location: Grand Lake
• Relates to term: I'm sorry its not a scale but there are scales on the fish. The gar uses gills to breath which means it has a two-chambered heart
• Definition: two-chambered heart is exists primarily in animals that use gills for breathing. 

Adaptation in an animal

• Specimen: Tiger
• Location: Dickerson park Zoo
• Relates to term: the tiger got hot and adapted to its environment by getting in the water to cool off.
• Definition: Adaptation: In biology, the process by which an animal or plant becomes fitted to its environment. 

Altruistic Behavior

• Specimen: Cotton-Top Tamarin
• Location: Dickerson Park Zoo
• Relates to term: Monkeys are known to care for other babies in their group while parents are away or dead, they gather food together as well as protect the group by distracting the predator while the rest of the group gets away. 
• Definition: unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others ( egoistic). (2) of or pertaining to behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage but that benefits others of its kind, often its close relatives.

Detritivore

• Specimen: Eger's earth boring beetle
• Location: I found it at Lowe's.
• Relates to term: The beetle is in the dung beetle family and dung beetles eat feces.
• Definition: Detritivore: an organism that uses organic waste as a food source, as certain insects. 

Amniotic Egg

• Specimen: Chicken egg
• Location: Taken at my boyfriend's house, his dad raises chickens and this was in the coop.\
• Relates to term: Its an egg produced by a bird, the embryo develops in an egg.
• Definition: Amniotic egg; The type of egg produced by reptiles, birds, and prototherian (egg-laying) mammals (amniotes), in which the embryo develops inside an amnion. The shell of an egg is either calcium-based or leathery. 

Exoskeleton

• Specimen: Lobster 
• Location: As I was in Florida I went to Joe Patti's and saw her with the lobster.
• Relates to term: A lobster has a protective outer shell. A shell is exoskeleton, and it is also a crustacean.
• Definition: Exoskeleton: a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection.
  

Animal that has a segmented body

• Specimen: Adult Female Black and Yellow Garden Spider
• Location: Also found on my porch while cleaning it.
• Relates to term: Spiders have bodies that are divided into two segments; the cephalothorax and the abdomen. 
• Definition: Segmentation: division into segments. (2) Biology.(a) the subdivision of an organ into more or less equivalent parts. (b) cell division. 

Hermaphrodite

• Specimen: Earthworm 
• Location: On my back porch as I was cleaning it with my brother.
• Relates to term: They carry both female and male sex organs.
• Definition: An individual in which reproduces organs of both sexes are present. (2) Biology. an organism, as an earthworm or plant, having normally both male and female organs of generation.