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| Reproduction accomplished by a single organism |
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| Special structures or chemicals that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their surroundings |
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| Organisms that eat living producers and or other consumers for food |
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| An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question |
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| Reproduction that requires to organisms, a male and a female |
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| Organisms that rely on other organisms for food |
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| An organism that causes disease |
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| An organism that feeds on dead matter |
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| An organism that feeds off a living host |
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| Respiration that requires oxygen |
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| Anaerobic Respiration (2) |
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| Respiration that does not require oxygen |
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| Organism from the same species that have markedly different traits |
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| The process by which food is converted into usable energy for life functions |
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| A temporary, foot-like extension of a cell used for movement and engulfing food |
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| The region of a Eukaryotic cell which contains the DNA |
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| A membrane bound "sac" within a cell |
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| Two or more organisms of different species living together so that each benefits |
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| A chemical that provides both toughness and flexibility to a cell wall |
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| The anaerobic breakdown of sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide, and lactic acid |
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| Extracellular Digestion (4) |
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| Digestion that takes place outside of the cell |
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| Anything that has mass and takes up space |
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| All atoms that contain the same number of protons |
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| A change that affects the appearance, but not the chemical makeup of a substance |
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| A change that alter the makeup of the elements or molecules of a substance |
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| The random motion of molecules from an area higher concentration to an area of low concentration |
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| A measure of how much substance exists within a certain volume |
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| The tendency of a solvent tio travel across a Semipermeable membrane into areas of higher solute concentration |
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| The process by which living organisms produce molecules |
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| A chemical reaction in which molecules combine by ejection water |
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| Breaking down of complex molecules by the chemical addition of water |
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| The transport of dissolved substances |
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| Maintaining the status quo in a cell |
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| Sensing and responding to changes in surroundings |
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| The scinence that studies how characterisitcs are passed from parent of offspring |
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| Section of DNA that codes for production of a protein of part of a protein, thereby causing a trait |
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| Duplication of cell's chomosomes to allow daughter cell to recieve the exact genetic makeup of the parent's cells |
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| A cross between two individuals concentrating on only one definable trait |
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| A cross between two individuals concentrating on two definable traits |
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| A diagram that follows a particular species phenotype unless the several generations |
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| An allel that will not detemine the genotype unless the genotype is a homoygous with that allele |
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| An allele that will determine the phenotype even if one is present in the genotype |
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| Two-letter set that represents the alleles an organism possesses for a certain trait |
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| The observable expression of an orgainism's genes (what is looks like) |
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| A radical chemical change in one or more allele |
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| Immutability of Species(9) |
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| The idea that each individual species on the planet was specially created by God and could never fundamentally change |
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| The theory that natural slelctio can, over time, take an organism and transform it into a more specialized species of that organism |
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| The hypothesis that process of natural selection can, over time, transfrom an organism into a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT organism |
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| Preserved remains of once-living organisms |
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| "Individuals within a population struggle to obtain what is necessary to survive" |
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| "The present is the key to the past" |
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| Developed the theory of "Natural Selection" |
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| An association of living things and their environment |
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| The study of relationships among organisms in an ecosystem |
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| An organism that eats producers |
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| A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level |
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| Evaporation of water from leaves of a plant |
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| Animals that lack a backbone |
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| Animals that possess a backbone |
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| An outer layer of cells designed to provide protection |
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| Masses of nerve cells bodies |
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| The end of an animal that contains the head |
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| The end of an animal that contains the tail |
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| A system designed to transport food and other necessary substances throughout the body |
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| A system of sensitive cells that respond to stimuli, such as sound, touch, and taste |
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| Possessing both male and female reproductive organs |
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| A body covering, typically made of chitin, that provides support and protection |
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| To shed an old exoskeleton so that it can be replaced by with a new one |
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| The body region between the head and the abdomen |
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| The body region posterior to the thorax |
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| The body region comprised of the head and thorax together |
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| Segments of bone or some other hard substance that are arranged into a backbone |
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| A skeleton on the inside of a creatures' body , typically made of bone or cartilage |
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| The portion of the skeleton that supports and protects head, neck, and trunk |
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| Appendicular Skeleton (13) |
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| The portion of the skeleton that attaches to the axial skeleton and has the limbs attached to it |
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| Closed Circulatory System (13) |
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| A circulatory system in which oxygen-carrying blood never leave the blood vessels |
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| Blood vessels that carry blood AWAY from the heart |
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| Tiny, thin-walled blood vessels that allow the exchange of gasses and nutrients between the blood and the cells |
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| Blood vessels that carry the blood BACK to the heart |
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| Undifferentiated Cells (14) |
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| Cells that have not specialized in any particular fuction |
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| A vascular tissue that carries substances upward in a plant |
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| A vasucular tissue that carries substances downward in a plant |
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| The study of life processes that occur in the daily life of an organism |
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| The phenomenon that occurs when individual molecules are so strongly attached to each other that they tend to stay together, even when exposed to tension |
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| The process by which organic substances move down the phloem of a plant |
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| A poison that attacks the nervous system |
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| A poison that attacks the red blood cells and the blood vessels |
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| A structure that allows nutrients and gasses to pass between the mother and the embryo |
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| The period of time during which an embryo develops before being born |
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| The science of classifying organisms |
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| Organisms that eat both plants and other organsims |
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| The dense cytoplasm found in the interior of many cells |
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| The general name given to medicines that are produced by fungi in the genus Penicillin |
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| Kind of specialized hyphae present in all fungi |
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| Organelle in animal cells responsible for hydrolysis reactions |
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| Specialized proteins that aid in the destruction of infectionous agents |
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| The ability to re-grow body parts |
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| The organ responsible for respiration in spiders |
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| Lacking an internal mechanism for requlating body heat |
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| A state of extremely low metabolsim |
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