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Science Chapter 2
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Biology
7th Grade
10/11/2012

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homeostasis
Definition
the maintenance of stable internal conditions
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classification
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grouping things based on similarites
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taxonomy
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the scientific study of how living things are classified
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genus
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the first name of a organisms scientific name
the second lowest level of classification
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species
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the second name in an organisms scientific name
the lowest level of classification
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domain
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highest level of classififcation
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kingdoms
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second highest level of classification
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phyla
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third highest level of classification
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classes
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fourth highest level of classification
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orders
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fourth lowest level of classification
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families
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third lowest level of classification
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prokaryotes
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organisms that lack a nucleus
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nucleus
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is a dense area in a cell that contained nucleic acids
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protists
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most are unicellular but some are multicellular is called the odds and ends group some are heterotrophs and autotrophs
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fungi
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feed by absourbing nutrients from the dead heterotrophs multi and unicellular
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plants
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multicellular autotrophs
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animals
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multicellular heterotrophs
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robert hooke
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first to obeserve cells
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