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Daedalus, (Greek: “Skillfully Wrought”) mythical Greek inventor, architect, and sculptor who was said to have built, among other things, the paradigmatic Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. Icarus and Daedalus, etching by Giovanni David, 1775; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
The answer to #2 Is a..biota is the life of "a" plant, or animal (etc.) of the particular region/habitat, etc.
