Review Vocabulary

List # 9

Grassland

•biome made up mainly of grasses that receives 25-75 cm of rainfall yearly

Fossil

•imprint or remains of an ancient organism

Fruit

•the ripened ovary of an angiosperm (contains seeds)

Fungus

•nonvascular, plantlike organism that has NO chlorophyll

Food Web

•interconnected food chains

Gestation Period

•time the young spends developing inside the mother

elephant - 645 days, beaver - 122 days, domestic cat -61 days, domestic dog - 64 days, kangaroo - 42 days, horse - 336 days, mouse - 19 days, whale - 490 days, zebra - 365 days.

Gene •basic unit of heredity, genetic information that influences a trait

Genetic Engineering

•process of changing the genetic material of an organism

Food Chain

•sequence of organisms through which nutrients are passed (i.e. what eats what)

Genetics

•the study of heredity

Gravity

•force of attraction between objects

•the genetic makeup of an organism

Genotype

Germination

•early growth stage or sprouting of a young plant

Gallbladder

•organ that stores bile

Gill

•spore-producing structure in a mushroom or breathing structure in water animals

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