plants with a one year life cycle
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| an animal that prefers to eat tender shoots, twigs, shrubs, and tree leaves |
| starches, sugars, and cellulose produced by plants during photosynthesis that release energy during digestion |
| the chief component of plant tissues and fibers |
| the decay or break down of organic matter |
| coarse, dry food, such as hay, fed to livestock |
| an animal adapted to eating grasses |
| plants with a multi-year cycle that survive dry and cold weather by going dormant |
| flightless, running birds, such as emus and ostriches, that have a flat breastbone without a keel |
| a group (suborder) of plant-eating hoofed mammals that have a multi-chambered stomach as part of their complex digestive tract which houses billions of micro-organisms to help digest cellulose |
