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This tall hollow grass is used to make everything from window shades to water pipes

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This tall hollow grass is used to make everything from window shades to water pipes

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This family of acorn-bearing trees is often divided into 3 main groups: red white & ringed

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Pond scum & most seaweed are forms of this simple plant

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In general gastropods with a shell are called snails & those without are called these

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About 25 of the more than 250 species of these are dangerous to man with the great white topping the list

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The fowls with this name are native to africa; the pigs to south america

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Horses have 64 chromosomes donkeys have 62 & this cross between them has 63

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Afghans salukis & beagles belong to this dog group

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It's the roundish seed pod of a cotton plant or the type of weevil that infests it

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The bark of the red mangrove tree yields this chemical used in making leather

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On a potato they are what we commonly call eyes

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Eagles usually kill their prey with these body parts

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What's often called fool's gold is really this mineral

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Though the small species that carpet damp forest areas are more familiar these plants can grow a yard high

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Lichens are formed by algae combining with this type of organism

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Many mammals are able to eat solid food well before this process of ceasing to suckle

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It's been recognized as the hardest substance known that occurs in nature

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The poisonous marine toad preys on these animals its companions in the order anura

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3 species of hyena have been recognized: brown striped & this

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Because of their lack of movement sponges were once thought to be these instead of animals

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Oysters are the most common source for saltwater pearls & these are the usual source for freshwater ones

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When gathering herbs beware! this one from which the greeks made a poisonous brew looks like parsley

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Some of the fanciest of these reptiles are beaded horned or frilled

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Some of these on the trunk & branches of the honey locust tree may be 4 inches long--ouch!

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These welsh dogs with foxlike heads & stiff coats were bred for herding cattle

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These creatures including the ermine are noted for killing more prey than they can eat

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In the south buildings have been engulfed & trees have been smothered by this oriental vine gone wild

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Sausage trees found in africa are pollinated by these flying mammals

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Coniferous trees are primarily pollinated by this not birds or bees

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These sea creatures make up the animal class asteroidea

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Fruit types of these insects may be named for the fruit they infest such as olives or cherries

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Developed from buried peat deposits lignite is the first stage in the formation of this fuel

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Evidence has been found that proves these largest mammals once had hind legs & feet

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These bivalves stay under the mud by extending their siphons into the water

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As opposed to the bald type the booted types of this bird of prey are named for feathers on their legs

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The barbs on a bird's feathers are made of this protein like your hair

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Adult amphibians go through this skin-shedding process several times a year

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This flavoring is the only edible product produced by an orchid plant

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They may never prosper but these creatures have been clocked sprinting at 71 mph

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Silica derived from this giant grass is used in making a chinese medicine called tabasheer

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Growing up to 65 feet these parts of a raffia palm are the longest on any plant

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Coniferous trees are primarily pollinated by this not birds or bees

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It's the color in the name of the largest living rhinoceros

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To aid its nocturnal habits these facial features on a tarsier are each as big as its brain

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It's the roundish seed pod of a cotton plant or the type of weevil that infests it

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Some people in asia use cormorants to catch these

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Horses have 64 chromosomes donkeys have 62 & this cross between them has 63

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On summer nights in austin texas swarms of these mammals emerge from under the congress avenue bridge to feed

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Like other vertebrates birds have 2 hind limbs & 2 forelimbs the latter being these

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The majority of the world's cork comes from an evergreen species of this stately tree

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This family of acorn-bearing trees is often divided into 3 main groups: red white & ringed

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Fruit types of these insects may be named for the fruit they infest such as olives or cherries

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The greeks called licorice glykyrrhiza sweet this the part of the plant it came from

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The poisonous marine toad preys on these animals its companions in the order anura

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Fossils indicate that the first organisms on earth were bacteria & the blue-green type of this

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The liquid inside the stem of a plant it's lunch for an aphid

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On a potato they are what we commonly call eyes

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Unlike insects arachnids don't have these; they can only get around on foot

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This sense in humans has been called distance chemoreception

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These bivalves stay under the mud by extending their siphons into the water

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The teeth of a hippopotamus are made of this like an elephant's tusks

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