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nocturnal
URI:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q309179
Definition:
animal behavior characterized by activity during the night and sleeping during the day
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diurnal
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http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q906470
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animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of inactivity at night.
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bilaterally symmetric
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
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being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q47253
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animals that typically have a long tube-like body
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phylum of invertebrate animals
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fruit
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0009001
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A multi-tissue plant structure (PO:0025496) that develops from a gynoecium (PO:0009062) and may have as parts one or more seeds (PO:0009010)
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Ontology Description: http://www.plantontology.org/ Ontology Source: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/po.owl
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multi-tissue plant structures that develop from a plant ovule and have as parts a plant embryo enclosed in a seed coat.
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Ontology Description: http://www.plantontology.org/ Ontology Source: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/po.owl
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insects
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a class of mainly terrestrial arthropods
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Living at the bottom of a body of water.
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A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.
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Self-propelled movement of an organism from one location to another through water, often by means of active fin movement.
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migratory
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makes regular daily or seasonal movements between different regions or habitats
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motility
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actively mobile
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Definition:
uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis
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The Neotropics
URI:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q217151
Definition:
one of the eight terrestrial ecozones constituting the Earth's land surface
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecozone_Neotropic.svg
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omnivore
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http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
Definition:
organism consuming a variety of foods, usually including both plants and animals
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