Male pine cones are thinner & smaller compared the female pine cones. Here you see my blurry finger and a female pine cone. (#86)

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Pine trees have conifer leafs, so this would fit with #28 on the list.

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Lilies have stamens where it can collect pollen. This would fit #10.

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Corn would go with #19 on the list because it’s a C4 plant. C4 plants are plants in which CO2 is fixed into a compound containing four carbon atoms before entering the Calvin Cycle of the process of photosynthesis. Corn is a fine example because it’s a very adaptable plant which is also a characteristic of C4 plants!

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Amniota is a clade of tetrapod vertebrates comprising the reptiles, birds and mammals that lay their eggs on land or retain the fertilized egg within the mother. This little chicken egg has the anatomy of an amniotic egg (#5), but the three basic ones are an eggshell, yellow yolk and white yolk. An egg with a water-impermeable amniotic membrane surrounding a fluid-filled amniotic cavity. This permits embryonic development on land without danger of desiccation. This egg is also water-impermeable and could have developed on land, if not processed and put into supermarkets

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Crabs are arthropods (#11) because they’re invertebrates. They also have an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages.


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Annelid is the scientific name for ring/segmented worms. Sadly the heat killed the worm. If this worm was alive, you would be able to see it's long body with segments that are divided by shallow rings.

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Roses are well known for their thorns. (#104)

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A niche is the specific area where an organism inhabits. Birdhouses are nice niches for birds to raise a family.


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Basidiomycota (#15) is best known for the production of large fruit bodies such as the mushrooms, puffballs, brackets, etc. Some are eatable like this one in the picture.


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This sponge is a porifera (#90) because it’s full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them.


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The adaptation of this animal (#1) are his claws. If this cat was in the wild, he would use his claws to attack, hunt, and protect itself.


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Although butterflies are less efficient than bees at pollinating (#89), they still do their share. Butterflies collect pollen on their legs & body while they search for food. They also pollinate a larger area than bees since they can fly longer distances.


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Ants would fit with #8 on the list because of their segmented bodies. Ants have a head, thorax, and abdomen.


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Catus are known to be sturdy plants since they don’t need much water to survive. Cacti are xerophytes (#109) because they survive in environments like deserts.


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Cellulose is found in large amounts in nearly all plants. Celery, for example, has cellulose (#23). Humans don't have cellulase enzyme which breaks down the cellulose which is why celery doesn’t contain many calories.


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This type of daisy is an angiosperms (#7) because it’s a flowering plant. Also angiosperms make up 80% of all plants, and they always have a flower on them at some point.


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Japanese Maple trees’ leaves are deciduous (#32) because in late November or December, they fall off the tree.


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Humans typically have hair on top of their heads, and hair has keratin (#62) in it! Our fingernails are also made of keratin.


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This little dude is an example of endothermic (#39) because he is warm-blooded. He doesn’t need an outside source to keep him warm.


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Moths are included in this order of insects. Lepidopterans undergo a four-stage lifecycle: egg; larva/caterpillar; pupa/chrysalis; and imago/adult. Moths also have the presence of scales on the external parts of the body and appendages (wings) which is an important part of the lepidoptera order.

I hope the reflection of my phone and my finger count.

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This flower’s stem is herbaceous (#102) because if I were to cut the stem and place it under a microscope, I would see vascular tissue organized in bundles, formed in a ring around the central pith.


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Cnidaria (#26) comes from the Greek word "cnidos," which means stinging nettle. By touching many cnidarians, it’s clear how they got their name! Jellyfish are known for their stingers.


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Woody stems (#103) are the stems of plants who have been growing for two years or more. After two years, a plant's stem thickens to accommodate growth and increased circulation in a plant. The most common example is a tree!!


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Starfish are the most well known example of (#36) echinoderm. Echinoderm are best known for their radical symmetry which the starfish possess.


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Although watermelons are hard, they are still fleshy fruits. (#50) What makes watermelons a fleshy fruit is that it has a flesh area between the seeds and the skin. When you eat a fleshy fruit, you typically consume the flesh rather than the seeds. Watermelons are pepos, and pepos are a type of fleshy fruits that type are a modified berries which contain flesh within a hard skin that is typically inedible.


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Grasshoppers have five nymph stages. (#82) Grasshoppers have to molt five times before they can grow up to be an adult. I would guess that this grasshopper is in its 2nd stage nymph.


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Praying mantises, in my opinion, are the creepiest (#60) insects of all. They have three pairs of legs (the biggest pair being the creepiest), a segmented body divided into three regions (head, thorax, and abdomen), one pair of antennae. Some insects usually have wings, but not all insects do. In this case, this one does.

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The barnacles on the deck is a example of (#29) commensalism because only the barnacle is benefiting from the relationship. The barnacle has a place to live and reproduce thanks to the dock. The dock isn’t affected or harmed.

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Chameleons are(#37) exothermic because they cold-blooded and rely on external sources for body heat.


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All plants are autotrophs (#13) because they use photosynthesis to make their food.


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