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| organism that makes its own food |
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| organism that obtains energy by feeding on others |
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| maintenance of stable internal conditions |
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| process of grouping things based on their similarities |
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| giving an organism two scientific names |
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| classification group that contains similar, closely related, organisms |
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| group of similar organisms that can mate and produce offspring |
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| organism that lacks a nucleus |
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| basic units of structure and function of living things |
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| widely accepted explanation of relationship between cells and living things |
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| rigid layer of non-living material that surrounds cells of plants and other organisms |
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| soft barrier after cell wall that controls what comes in and out of the cell |
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| barrier that protects nucleus |
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| small floating object in a nucleus that produces ribosomes that creates chromatin |
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| passages that carry materials from one part to another in a cell |
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| small, grainlike bodies attacked to endoplasmic reticulum that produce protein |
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| rod-shaped structures that convert food to energy to power a cell |
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| large, water-filled gap in the cytoplasm that act as storage areas |
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| small, round structures containing chemicals that break down certain materials |
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| green organelles that capture sunlight and use it to produce food |
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| organisms that are made of many cells that are organized to do special tasks |
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| A change in an organism’s surroundings that causes the organism to react |
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| an action or change in behavior |
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| the process of change that occurs during an organism’s life to produce a more complex organism |
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| The mistaken idea that living things can arise from nonliving sources |
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| The scientific study of how living things are classified |
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| a dense area in a cell that contains nucleic acids |
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| an instrument that makes small objects look larger |
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| A tiny cell structure that carries out a specific function within the cell. |
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| the region between the cell membrane and the nucleus |
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| A structure in a cell that receives proteins and other newly formed materials from the endoplasmic reticulum, packages them, and distributes them to other parts of the cell. |
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