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The standard to which the outcome of a test is compared.
What is control?
100
Gelatinlike material
What is cytoplasm?
100
Animal with a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
100
Strong, lightweight feathers that give birds their coloring and shape and that are used for flight.
What is a contour feather?
100
The way an organism interacts with other organisms and it's environment.
What is behavior?
200
Something in an experiment that can change.
What is variable?
200
Structure in the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell that cam act as a storage site, process energy, move materials, or manufacture substances.
What is organelles?
200
Vertebrate animal with a nearly constant internal temperature.
What is an endotherm?
200
Soft, fluffy feathers that provide an insulating layer next to the skin of adult birds and that cover the bodies of young birds.
What are down feathers?
200
A behavior that an organism is born with.
What is innate behavior?
300
The smallest unit of an organism that carries on the functions of life.
What is a cell?
300
Directs all cell activities and is separated from the cytoplasm by a membrane.
What is nucleus?
300
Hard, thin plates that cover the skin and protect the body.
What is a scale?
300
Process in which a bird rubs oil from an oil gland over its feathers to condition them.
What is preening?
300
When an animal forms a social attachment to another organism within a specific time period after birth or hatching.
What is imprinting?
400
An organism's ability to keep the proper conditions inside no matter what is going on outside the organism.
What is homeostasis?
400
Organelles where energy is released from the breakdown of food into carbon dioxide and water.
What is mitochondria?
400
Period of inactivity during cold weather.
What is hibernation?
400
Glands of mammals; in females, produce milk to feed their young.
What is a mammary gland?
400
Interactions among organisms of the same species.
What is social behavior?
500
The idea that living things come from nonliving things.
What is spontaneous generation?
500
A strand of heredity material surrounded by a protein coating.
What is a virus?
500
Inactivity during the hot, dry months.
What is estivation?
500
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
500
A group of animals of the same species living and working together in an organized way.
What is a society?