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Zoological terms
Terms in relation to animals, such as mammals, birds, reptiles or fish.
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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.
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.
hyoid apparatus
Zoology; Zoological terms
A collective term for the bones of the tongue and associated connective tissues, found in the upper throat
hypostracum
Zoology; Zoological terms
The innermost layer of a snail's shell, closest to the snail's body.
hemizygous
Zoology; Zoological terms
A diploid organism is hemizygous for a particular gene when only one allele for the gene is present.
habitat destruction
Zoology; Zoological terms
Habitat destruction is the process by which natural habitat is damaged or destroyed to such an extent that it no longer is capable of supporting the species and ecological communities that naturally ...
