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| Florida whip spider/scorpion |
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| Argentine horned frog/toad |
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| Chilean rose-hair tarantula |
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| Alligator mississipiensis |
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| concealment through color/pattern; "biological invisibility" |
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| advertisement of noxiousness |
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| teeth in the back of the mouth (ie: frogs) |
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| dormancy through a hot/dry period (opposite of hibernation) |
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| non-living layer, secreted for protection |
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| predator that is usually stationary (ie: horned frog, tarantula) |
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| "small leaves;" singular veination |
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| leaf like, sporangia bearing structures, densely localized around a stem |
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| "folded" look (ie: running pine) |
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| fern-like branching (ie: running pine) |
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| behavior, coloring, etc. associated with mating, marking territory, or defense |
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| heterothermic and ectothermic |
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| absorbing heat, behavioral thermoregulation |
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| transition area between true desert and grasslands |
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| External ear openings and movable eyes |
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| two characteristics that distinguish lizards from snakes |
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| modified pedipalps for grasping |
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| long, thin; sensory legs (ie: whip spider) |
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| waist-like structure on spiders dividing cephalothorax and abdomen |
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| dosoventrally flattened, depressed |
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| flattened to have a thin body structure, belly down |
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| mouse-like, esp. in spiders |
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| straight-jaw calicerae (ie: Chilean rose-hair tarantula) |
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protein; produced in glands in spinnerets in spiders
used for: ballooning, drag-lines, sensory, burrow/retreat, sperm web, cocoon |
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| itching hairs with barbs, esp. for defense (ie: tarantula) |
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| living among rocks (ie; spike tailed lizard) |
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| Short term vs. long term evolutionary explanations for adaptation |
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| laying eggs and keeping them warm (ie: alligator) |
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| Temperature sex determination |
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| phenomenon where eggs incubated at lower temperatures produce females and those at higher temperatures produce males (ie: alligator) |
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| holes in a riverbed; important to the ecosystem during droughts, when these holes may have the only source of water |
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| milk-like substance secreted by plants |
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| "flower" actually made of many flowers |
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| flowers borne on scape, leaves close down to the ground |
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| able to produce seeds without syngamy |
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| flower with one hyperextended, fused carpel |
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| fuzzy neck around flower that becomes "parachute" for fruit, dispersed by wind (anemochory) |
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| semi-hibernation over winter; period of lessened activity |
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| breaking off of tail as a defensive tactic |
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| adaptation of eyes for night vision |
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| Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae |
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