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INDEX 



Basophil, 335, 526 

 Bass, 379, 394, 395 

 Bastard wing, 438 

 Bat, 325,483,495,611 

 Bath sponge, 93, 100 

 Bathyal zone, 632 

 Bathyclupeida, 395 

 Batrachoidida, 395 

 Bdellostoma, 367 

 Beach Bea, 217 

 Bear, 485, 486 

 Beaver, 482, 485 

 Bedbug, 261, 263 

 Bee, 198,251, 260 



adaptations, 245 



dance, 252 



eaters, 462 



fly, 265 



honey, 251 



louse, 265 

 Beetle, 260, 261 



darkling, 264 

 Behavior, 543-557 



Amoeba, 36-38 



crayfish, 213 



earthworm, 181, 556 



Euglena, 44 



frog, 355 



Hydra, 113-114, 556 



insects, 252 



Paramecium, 59-61,60 



Protozoa, 555 



sponges, 555 

 Bell toad, 397 

 Belostomatidae, 263 

 Belted kingfisher, 454, 462 

 Benedina, 147 

 Beneficial insects, 254, 255 

 Benthos, 645 

 Beri-beri, 521 

 Berycoid fishes, 395 

 Berycomorphida, 395 

 Biceps, 347, 350, 505, 506 



femorus, 467 

 Bicuspid valve, 530 

 Bilateral symmetry, 88, 134, 308, 



324 

 Bile, 517, 520 



duct, 331, 515 

 Bills, birds, 442, 446 

 Binary fission, 37, 558 

 Biochemistry, 61 3 

 Biogenesis, 602 

 Biogenic law, 613 

 Biological interrelationships, 634 

 Biologic levels of organization, 30 



principles, 633 

 Biology, 14 

 Biome, 632 

 Biosphere, 633 

 Biotic community, 633, 641 



interrelationships, 634 



principles, 641 

 Biotin vitamin, 523 



Bipedal locomotion, 435 

 Bipinnaria, 308, 606 

 Biradial symmetry, 1 30 

 Biramous appendage, 203 

 Bird, 432-462, 433,616,647 



altricial, 449, 450 



aquatic, 451 



bills, 446 



circulatory system, 439, 440 



classification, 461 



colors, 446 



digestive system, 438 



domesticated, 456 



eggs, 442, 443, 449 



extinct, 456 



feathers, 434, 435,436 



feet, 445, 446 



flight, 435, 447 



flightless, 450 



form and function, 443, 444 



fossil, 456 



game, 453 



hce, 260 



migration, 447, 448 



muscular system, 438 



nervous system, 442 



nests, 448, 449 



perching, 456 



precocial, 449, 450 



prey, 453 



relations to man, 459 



reproductive system, 442 



respiratory system, 439-441 



sense organs, 442 



skeleton, 435,437 



songs, 447 



tails, 444 



wingless, 450 



wings, 444 



young, 448, 449 

 Bison, 479 



Biting louse, 229, 260 

 Bittern, 461 

 Bivalve, mollusks, 298 



shell, 166, 168 

 Black Andalusian fowl, 588 



ant, 261 



birds, 462 



fly, 265 



rat, 485 



snake, 416 



widow spider, 273, 276 

 Blackhead, turkevs, 74 

 Bladder, frog, 339, 340, 342 



man, 539 



rotifera, 164 



worm, 141 

 Blastocoel, 82, 356, 357, 564 

 Blastocyst, 477 

 Blastoderm, 82, 239 

 Blastodisk, 443 

 Blastomere, 81, 564 

 Blastophaga, 639, 640 



Blastopore, 357 



Blastostyle, 118, 119 



Blastula, 82, 115, 116, 119, 122, 



308, 357, 564 

 Blattidae, 263 

 Bleeders, 596 

 Blennies, 379 

 Blenniidae, 379 

 Blind cave fish, 379 

 snake, 417 

 spot, 550 

 worm, 404 

 Blister beetle, 264 

 Blood, 525-529 

 cells, 526 

 clotting, 526 

 corpuscles, 526 

 of earthworm, 175 

 groups, human, 525-534, 590, 

 591 

 A-B-Ogroups, 527, 590, 591 

 Duffy, 528 

 Kell, 528 

 Kidd, 528 

 Lewis, 528 

 Lutheran, 528 

 MNS, 528 

 P, 528 

 Rh, 591 

 plasma, 206, 335, 529 

 platelets, 86, 526 

 pressure, 530 

 rate of circulation, 531 

 suckers, 190, 191 

 vascular system, 163 

 velocity, 531 

 vessel, 176, 531, 532 

 valves, 176, 177 

 Blood and tissue Protozoa, 67 

 Blowflies, 265 

 Blowsnakes, 418 

 Blubber, 486 

 Blue crab, 217 

 fox, 486 

 racer, 416 

 whale, 486, 487 

 Bluefin tuna, 393 

 Boa constrictor, 417, 419, 430 

 Bob-white, 453 

 Bodo, 46 



Body covering, 327 

 louse. 262, 263 

 of man, 576, 577 

 wall, 93. 316,318,537,565 

 Boidae, 407, 430 

 Bombidae, 265 

 Bombycidae, 265 

 Bombycillidae, 462 

 Bombyliidae, 265 

 Bonasa, 461 

 Bone, 85, 343 



Bonyfishes, 378-395, 393,616 

 representatives, 379 

 (see Perca flavescens) 



