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1. Why is amoeba called acellular?

1. Who coined the term chromosome?

When it's an avocet. One old country name for the avocet was "awl, "like a cobbler's tool, because of its sharp, curved bill. The old English word for this was pronounced more like "eel." Some birds have more than one name, depending on what people notice most about them. The lapwing, named for the way it flies, is also called "peewit" after its call, and "green plover" because that is what it looks like. In Portugal, where they migrate in winter, lapwings are called "birds of winter.

Deserts are hot, dry places where almost no rain falls. Each day, the sun beats down fiercely from cloudless skies. At first glance, deserts seem lifeless places, but in fact all kinds of creatures live there. Many desert animals spend the scorching midday hours in underground burrows. Burrow-dwellers include snakes, lizards, and tortoises, rodents and other mammals, and even some kinds of birds.

1. What are mature male gorillas called?

1. Which gray bear hibernates in winter?

1. Which desert foxes use their large ears to keep cool?

1. Whereabouts does the carpet shark live in the sea?

1. What is the world's heaviest reptile?

1. What are mature male gorillas called?