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1. Altruistic Behavior: This pictures in its entirety depicts the plea to help dwindling orangutan populations by donating money. This is an example of altruistic behavior, or selflessness, because people do not necessarily gain anything by helping these creatures.

4. Climax Community: This picture of a section of land beside the river is a climax community in that it has reached a relatively steady state.

17. Population: This is the entirety of this specific population of zebras, the total number of a species in a finite area.

12. Mutualism: The huge amount of fungi that live on these plants demonstrate mutualism because they help protect the plants in return for nutrients.

13. Niche: Each organism in a community plays a specific role, its niche, and when one organism is lost, the whole community is affected, as the sign in this picture discusses.

6. Competition: This snow leopard in its natural habitat would compete for resources every day, fighting for its food among other predators.

3. Biomes: The American River makes up part of the valley biome, a biome often filled with rivers that run down from mountains and bring water and life to the valley, as seen here.

9. Introduced Species: This species of lizard is not native to the Sacramento area, but rather was introduced to the area.

15. Parasitism: This picture depicts bait used for fishing. Fishing is a parasitic activity in some regards because the person fishing gains something while the fish is actually hurt by the relationship.

18. Predation: This red panda is victim to predation in its native environment. It is not easily caught but is a highly targeted prey because it sticks out.

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9. Flock, herd, or schooling: This flock of flamingos stand in groups while they rest near their water source.

14. Mimicry; This is an example of mullerian mimicry in that this poisonous frog mimics other poisonous frogs to multiply their chance of dangerous reputation in the eyes of predators.

13. Mimicry (Batesian): This is an example of batesion mimicry because this non-poisonous frog mimics poisonous frogs in order to be considered dangerous by predators without actually being a real threat.

17. Phenotype: This berry trait is an example of a phenotype, something controlled by genes that we can actually see and observe.

18. Pollinator: Lemurs like this have been known from time to time to pollinate certain flowering plants.

20. Seed Dispersal Method: This interesting collection of plant components has an abundance of seeds in it. Interestingly enough, it seems it has been partially chewed by some organism. It has moved seeds from the plants location.

21. Tropism: This is a prime example of tropism, the movement towards or away from a stimulus such as light, heat, or most probable in this case, wind.

15. Mitosis: This lizard is constantly going through mitosis, duplicating its cells and stimulating growth.

6. Haploid: This plant is a haploid because it lacks a set of chromosomes from a mother and a father and is simply a duplication of a gamete.

1. Diploid: This plant is a haploid because it has a set of chromosomes from a mother and a father an is a 2n organisms.

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16. Fermentation: This beverage has gone through the process of fermentation because it has been deprived of oxygen

10. Cohesion: This sparkling blue water given to tortoises displays this property by sticking to the bowl.

32. Saturated Fat: This peanut butter contains saturated fat, so named for its straight carbon chain structure

14. Entropy: The chaos of the universe is ever increasing as energy is displaced. This river is a prime example of this energy chaos.

15. Enzyme: There are many enzymes at work in this snake, including special ones specific to its unique functions and form.

12. Ectothermy: This lizard can be considered ectothermic because it absorbs heat from its environment rather than creating its own heat.

13. Endothermy: This lemur is endothermic, like all mammals, because it creates its own heat and regulates itself temperature-wise.

24. Hydrophobic: This dressing is hydrophobic because it is oil based rather than water based and oils are hydrophobic.

5. Calvin Cycle: This plant is undergoing the calvin cycle, using this step as part of its creation of ATP.

29. Long- Day Plant: This tobacco is actually the opposite of a long day plant, a short day plant, which flowers when the day lengths are shorter than the critical photoperiod, as opposed to a long day plant which flowers when the day length is longer.

27. Citric Acid Cycle: This orangutan is undergoing the citric acid cycle, after completing glycolysis. This cycle uses acetyl coA.

19. Heterotroph: This lion, king of the jungle, is the ultimate heterotroph because it is the top of the food chain.

6. Carbohydrate: Carbohydrates are an essential part of this snakes diet, which it uses for energy storage.

8. Cellulose: This plant contains a large amount of cellulose, which is the form with which it stores energy.

2. Anabolic: This plant goes through anabolic reactions to build things up, using the sun's energy.

3. ATP: This zebra is currently using ATP in most of its energy requiring actions and processes, in this case bending down and eating.

22. Hypotonic: This river is hypotonic to the surrounding area because it has less solute for the amount of water than the land around it.

18. Glycolysis: This lizard is undergoing glycolysis to convert glucose to pyruvates that then will be converted and used in the Kreb's cycle.

17. Glycogen: This is the form in which energy is stored in animals, such as this snake.

23. Hydrophilic: This worms in this picture have a hydrophilic outer layer, meaning they are polar and agreeable in a water based solution.

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14. Chordate: This majestic giraffe is a chordate because it is a mammal and all mammals are chordates.

10. Arthropod: This red ant is an arthropod because it is of the insect class and is an invertebrate.

7. Annelid: This worm lying in the river classifies as an annelid.

16. Coelomate: This snake possesses a coelom, a central body cavity, and is therefore a coelomate.

26. Homologous Structures: These two species of birds have homologous wing structures because they derived from the same origin.

13. Byrophyte: This clover-like plant found near the river may be considered a byrophyte because it is non-vascular.

1.  Acoelomate: The organisms that used to occupy these shells are acoelomates because it lacks distinction between body wall and digestive tracts.

2.Adaptation of an animal: This lizard blends in to its surroundings with its camouflage trait.

3. Adaptation of a plant: This plant employs its trait, thorns, to ward off unwanted organisms that might normally try to eat it.

6. Angiosperm: This plant is an angiosperm because it has flowering buds.

22. Genetic Variation: This occurrence of genetic variation is what causes one of these tortoises to have a shell that curves up in the front and one that does not.

31. Mycorrhizal Fungi: This group of river-side plants witth no doubt shares a mutualistic relationship with this type of beneficial, root-dwelling fungus found in most plants.

39. Tetrapod: This tetrapod, named so for its four-legged stature, roams the jungle fearing nothing, ready to slaughter whatever unfortunate creature crosses its dangerous path.

41. Vestigial Structure: This anteater surely has some junk DNA that has become useless at this point in its evolution. Vestigial structures are things that used to serve purposes but have lost their necessity over time.

20. Fungi: This algae is a basic example from the Fungus kingdom

38. Seedless Vascular Plant: This plant is seedless but has vascular tissue.

27. Lichens: A lichen is a mixture of a fungus and some sort of photosynthetic part. This pictures depicts such a case.

12. Bilateral symmetry: This bird displays this quality with two halves of its body symmetrical around a center axis.

37. Radial symmetry: This interesting rock circle, like a miniature stonehenge, that I found displays with its circular shape the property of radial symmetry, that it is symmetrical around an axis down the middle at any angle.

32. Organisms in different phyla: These two organisms are classified under different phyla.