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behavior way an organism reacts to aggression forceful behavior used to other organisms or to its environment dominate or control another animal

conditioning modifying an organism’s bioluminescence chemical reaction learned behavior so that a response that occurs within living things and to one stimulus becomes associated gives off light with a different stimulus pheromone chemical that is produced hibernation response in which an by one animal and influences the animal’s body temperature, activity, behavior of another animal of the heart rate, and breathing rate same species decrease during periods of cold society group of animals of the same weather species living and working together homeostasis organism’s ability to in an organized way maintain steady internal conditions submission condition of being humble when outside conditions change or compliant imprinting learned behavior that territory area of land that an animal occurs when an animal forms an defends and uses for feeding, mating, attachment to an organism or place and raising young within a specific time period after birth or hatching

innate behavior behavior that is inherited rather than learned

instinct complex pattern of innate behaviors

migration instinctive, seasonal movement of animals from one place to another

stimulus Changes in an organism’s environment that causes a response Copyright © Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. The McGraw-Hill of a division © Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Copyright

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cycle series of events that regularly recur and lead back to the starting point

fertilization joining of an egg cell with a sperm cell

metamorphosis developmental process in which the form of the body changes as an animal grows from an egg to an adult

ovary female reproductive organ that produces egg cells

sexual reproduction process in which genetic material from a sperm cell and an egg cell combine, producing an offspring

testis male reproductive organ that

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zygote new cell that forms from the fusion of an egg cell and a sperm cell

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