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10th Grade
09/17/2012

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Adaption
Definition
Characteristic that helps living things survive and reproduce in a given environment 
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Biodiversity
Definition
Number of different species in an area or in the entire biosphere
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Biology
Definition
Science of life, study of life
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Biome
Definition
Group of similar ecosystems withrather same general type of physical environment
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Biosphere
Definition
Part of Earth where all life exists, including land, water and air
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Cell
Definition
Basic unit of structure and function of living things
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Cell theory
Definition
Theory that all living things are made up of cells, all life functions occur within cells, and all cells come from existing cells
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Community
Definition
All of the populations of different species that live in the same area
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Competition
Definition
Relationship between living things that depend on the same resources in the same place at the same time.
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Ecosystem
Definition
All the living things in agiven area together with the physical factors of the nonliving environment
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Evolution
Definition
Change in the characteristics ofliving things over time, the change in species over time
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Gene therapy
Definition
Theory that the characteristics of living things arecontrolled by genes that are passed from parents to offspring
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Homeostasis
Definition
Process of maintaining a stable environment inside a cell or an entire organism
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Natural selection
Definition
Evolutionary process in which some living things produce more offspring that others so the characterics od organisms change in time
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Organ
Definition
Structure composed of more than one one type oftissue that performs a particular structure
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Organ systems
Definition
Group of organs that worktogether to do.A certain job
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Organism
Definition
An individual living thing
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Population
Definition
allA all the organisms of the same species that live in the same area
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Reproduction 
Definition
Process by whichtintingthings give rise to offspring
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Symbiosis
Definition
Close relationship between organisms of adifferent spaces in which at least one of the organisms benefits from the relationship.
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