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What is the order of life's hierarchy of orginazation? |
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| 1.Biosphere 2.Ecosystem 3.Community 4.Population 5.Organism 6.Organ System 7.Organ 8.Tissue 9.Cell 10.Organelle 11. Molecule |
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| All the environments on earth that supports life. |
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| Consists of all the organisms living in a particular area aswell as all the nonliving physical components of the environment with which the oganisms interact. ex. air, soil, water, and sunlight. |
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| The entire array of organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem. |
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| A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding |
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| A population consists of all the individuals of a species living in a specified area. |
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| An individual living thing. |
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| Consists of several organs that work together in performing specific functions. ex. digestive system or nervous system. |
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| A grouping of tissues into a distinct structure that performs a specific function. ex. Brain, heart, and liver. |
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| Organs are made up of tissues that are made up of a group of similar cells that performs a specific function. |
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| A basic unit of living matter seperated from it environ ment by a plasma membrane. The building blocks of life. |
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| A membrane bound structure that perfoms a specific function in a cell. ex. nucleus and mitochondra. |
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| A clustor of atoms held together by chemical bonds. ex, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). |
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| Define Emergent Properties. |
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| New properties that emerge with each step upward in the hierarchy of life, owing to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases. |
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