Integrated Principles of Zoology
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1. Adaptation An anatomical structure, physiological process, or behavioral trait that evolved by
natural selection and improves an organism's ability to survive and leave descen-
dants.
2. Asexual Without distinct sexual organs; not involving formation of gametes.
3. Chromosome A complex body, spherical or rod shaped, that arises from the nuclear network
during mitosis, splits longitudinally, and carries a part of the organism's genetic
information as genes composed of DNA.
4. Deduction Reasoning from the general to the particular, that is, from given premises to their
necessary conclusion.
5. Emergence The appearance of properties in a biological system (at the molecular, cellular,
organismal, or species levels) that cannot be deduced from knowledge of the
component parts taken separately or in partial combinations.
6. Entropy A quantity that is the measure of enegry in a system not available for doing work.
7. Eukaryotic Organisms whose cells characteristically contain a membrane-bound nucleus or
nuclei; contrasts woth prokaryotic.
8. Gamete A mature haploid sex cell; usually, male and female gametes can be distiguished.
An egg or a sperm.
9. Gradualism A component of Darwin's evolutionary theory postulating that evolution occurs by
the temporal accumulation of small, incremental changes, usually across very long
periods of geological time; it opposes claims that evolution can occur by large,
discontinuous or macromutaltional changes.
10. Heredity The faithful transmission of biological traits from parents to their offspring.
11. Hierarchical sys- A scheme arranging organims into a series of taxa of increasing inclusiveness, as
tem illustrated by Linnean classification.
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1. Adaptation An anatomical structure, physiological process, or behavioral trait that evolved by
natural selection and improves an organism's ability to survive and leave descen-
dants.
2. Asexual Without distinct sexual organs; not involving formation of gametes.
3. Chromosome A complex body, spherical or rod shaped, that arises from the nuclear network
during mitosis, splits longitudinally, and carries a part of the organism's genetic
information as genes composed of DNA.
4. Deduction Reasoning from the general to the particular, that is, from given premises to their
necessary conclusion.
5. Emergence The appearance of properties in a biological system (at the molecular, cellular,
organismal, or species levels) that cannot be deduced from knowledge of the
component parts taken separately or in partial combinations.
6. Entropy A quantity that is the measure of enegry in a system not available for doing work.
7. Eukaryotic Organisms whose cells characteristically contain a membrane-bound nucleus or
nuclei; contrasts woth prokaryotic.
8. Gamete A mature haploid sex cell; usually, male and female gametes can be distiguished.
An egg or a sperm.
9. Gradualism A component of Darwin's evolutionary theory postulating that evolution occurs by
the temporal accumulation of small, incremental changes, usually across very long
periods of geological time; it opposes claims that evolution can occur by large,
discontinuous or macromutaltional changes.
10. Heredity The faithful transmission of biological traits from parents to their offspring.
11. Hierarchical sys- A scheme arranging organims into a series of taxa of increasing inclusiveness, as
tem illustrated by Linnean classification.
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