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| How many Characterists of life are there? |
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| Living things must exchange _____ with their _____. |
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| Living things must exchange materials with their environment. |
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| The body's ability to maintain stable, internal conditions within certain physiological boundries. |
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| What are the two types of movement? |
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| In a body moves from one place to another. |
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| In active movement a body moves from one place to another. |
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| The internal transfers that occurs in the organ system is an example of |
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| Movement in which materials can be moved within the body. |
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| What is Passive Movement? |
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| Living Things must respond to... |
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| List a few examples of external stimuli: |
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Living things have the potential to
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| What are the two types of reproduction? |
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| When one parent organism splits into two identical daughter organisms. |
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| What is asexual reproduction? |
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| When two different parent organisms produce offspring with traits that differ from their parents. |
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| What is sexual reproduction? |
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| By increasing in mass and size as well as increasing in complexity. |
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| How do living things grow and develop? |
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| What do living things pass onto their offspring? |
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| They pass on hereditary traits to their offspring. |
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They control the
- physical characteristics like height, hair and eye color.
- physiological characteristics (i.e. how the body works)
- behavioral characteristic like alcoholism, thrill-seeking
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| are peices of DNA on a that control traits. |
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| Genes are pieces of DNA on a chromosome that control traits. |
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| Living things must in order to ensure their survival. |
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| Living things must adapt in order to ensure their survival. |
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| All living things exhibit genetic change from generarion to generation. Therefore living things |
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| Evolve (or rather devolve) |
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| How many levels of organization are there? |
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| List the levels of organization from most specific to most general. |
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- Chemical
- Cellular
- Tissue
- Organ
- Organ System
- Organismal
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| Smallest units of matter that retain all properties of an element. Examples include C, H, O, N, P, Ca, K, Na, and Cl. |
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| Consists of two or more atoms chemically joined together. |
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| The structual and function unit of life. |
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What is a cell?
No cells-- no life! |
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| The simplest structure considered to be alive. |
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| Structures, regions, molecules in the cell that carry out specific tasks. |
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| Collection of similar cells that work together to a perform particular function. |
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Name the different types of tissue. |
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- Epithelial
- Connective
- Nervous
- Muscular
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| A/ an is the simplest body structure to be compose of two or more types of tissue. |
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| An organ is the simplest body structure to be compose of two or more types of tissue. |
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| Group organs that perform unique collective function. |
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| Single completely functional living organism. |
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