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Zoological terms
Terms in relation to animals, such as mammals, birds, reptiles or fish.
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Zoological terms
El niño
Zoology; Zoological terms
A warm current from the tropics that intrudes each winter along the west coast of northern South America.
Eucaryotic cell
Zoology; Zoological terms
A cell containing a distinct membrane-bounded nucleus, characteristic of all organisms except bacteria.
Environment
Zoology; Zoological terms
Surroundings of an organism, including the plants, animals, and microbes with which it interacts.
Host
Zoology; Zoological terms
Bird whose nest receives eggs laid by brood parasites. The hosts then provide parental care to the unrelated young that hatch from the parasitic egg, often to the detriment of their own young.
Homology
Zoology; Zoological terms
A similarity in traits that reflects descent from a common ancestor and which by inference was also present in that common ancestor. A shared character that is due to common hereditary.
Holotype
Zoology; Zoological terms
A single individual organism that is selected to represent the standard for a particular taxon and which serves as the standard for the original name and description of the species.
Histology
Zoology; Zoological terms
The structure and arrangement of the tissues of organisms; the study of these.
