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nervous system, scientific method, evolution, body systems
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Biology
9th Grade
01/30/2011

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Hypothesis
Definition
explanation as to the cause of an observation
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Variable
Definition
factor that can change
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Conclusion
Definition
statement that either supports or rejects your hypothesis based off of your data
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Neurons
Definition
basic compoments of the nervous system
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Motor Neuron
Definition
nueron that carries impulse away from central nervous system
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Stimulus
Definition
something like a sound, light, pain that the body will be responding to
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Sensory Neuron
Definition
brings signal to spinal cord which signals the motor neuron
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Central Nervous System
Definition
consists of brain and spinal cord
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Peripheral Nervous System
Definition
made up of spinal and cranial nerves
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What does the central brainstem control
Definition
temperature, heartbeat and breathing
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Evolution
Definition
the concept that differences among species are the result of changes across time
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Natural Selection
Definition
a change in nature that brings either a positive/negative change for a species
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Diversity of organisms

 

Definition
differences because of enviroment, diet and climate
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Galapagos Island
Definition
studied on, where Dawrin found finches
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Darwin's finches
Definition
gave evidence of adaptations (beaks)
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Geologic Time
Definition

earth's changes

(pangea, ocean, ige age etc.)

very slow

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Stratigraphy
Definition

using the age of the rock layer to estimate the age of the fossil

closer to the core-older

closer to the surface-newer

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Carbon Dating
Definition

used to directly caculate the age of a fossil, by looking at the isotepopes of carbon, carbon-12, carbon 14

more carbon-12, the older it will be.

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Embryology
Definition
studied by develpmental biologists, shows relation between species
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Fossils are used...
Definition
to see how species have changed, how extinct species lived
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Pangea
Definition

supercontinent

formed- 300 million years ago

broke up- 200-100 million years ago

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Fossil skulls tell us...
Definition
intelligence, their age, possibly diet and possibly death.
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Paleontologists
Definition
investigate biological change by studying fossils and the history of the earth
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Archeologists
Definition
study fossils
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Evolutionary biologists
Definition
study how living organisms change physically over time
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Physical Arthropologists
Definition
study how humans have changed biologically over time
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Protists
Definition

eukaryotes/ prokaryoties

don't belong to animal, plant of fungi

very diverse

found anywher

miscrosopic single cells

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Plants
Definition

either vascular or non vacular

photosynthesis

chloroplasts

produce oxyggen

eukaryotic

reproduce sexually

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Lamark's Theory of Evolution
Definition
body structure can change according to an organism's needs
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Fitness
Definition
ability to survive and reproduce
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Classification
Definition

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus

Species

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Things specifically to plants
Definition

chloroplasts

photosynthesis

chlorphyll

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Cell Membrane
Definition

bouncer protects cell.

both

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golgi appartus
Definition
protein oacakaging, exports and makes lysomone
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Lysomone
Definition
membrance  bound sacs for storage, digestion, waste disopasal, contains water solution, stores materials
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Mitochandria
Definition

make energy using sugar

controls levels in the cell

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Ribosome
Definition
make proteins made up of  RNA and proteins
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Homeostasis
Definition
internal balance that needs to be maintained, if not maintained injuries or illness will occur
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Osomosis
Definition
water molecules across a membrane from an area of high water concentration to an area of lower concentration.
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Isotomic Solution
Definition
when  two osmotic solutions are equal
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Hypertonic
Definition
the solution with the higher concentration of solutes
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Hypotonic
Definition
solution with the lower concentration of solutes
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Diffusion
Definition
the process by which molecules spread from areas of high concentratiion, to areas of low concentration.
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Equilibrium
Definition
When molecules are even throughout a space
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Acid
Definition
0-6 on the PH Scale
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Base
Definition
8-14 on the PH Scale
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Neutral Solution
Definition
7 on the PH Scale
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Hemoglobin
Definition
pigment in red blood cells that are responisble for transporting oxygen
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Platelet
Definition
irregularly shaped, colorless, sticky body that clots together in order to stop bleeding.
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Red Blood Cell
Definition
blood cell that carries oxygen
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White Blood Cell
Definition
blood cells that destroy pathogens
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Body regulation when Hot
Definition
sweating, ciculate blood away from internal organs
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Body temperature when Cold
Definition
circulate blood to center, shivers
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