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Biology
9th Grade
05/02/2007

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abiotic factors
Definition
NON-living part of a organism's environment, such as temp, moisture, light and soil
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adaptation
Definition
the evolution of a structure, behacior or internal process that enables an organism to survive better in its environment
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Autotroph
Definition
an organism that uses energy from the sun or energy stored in chemical compounds to manufactur it own nutrients
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Biome
Definition
A group of ecosysten with the some climax communities
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Biotic factors
Definition
all the living organism that inhabit an environment
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Decomposer
Definition
Organism such as fumgus that break down and absords nutrients from deas organisms
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Ecosystem
Definition
Interaction among population in a community and the comm
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Ecosystem
Definition
Interaction among population in a community and the comm
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food Chain
Definition
a somple modle that shows how matter and energy move through an ecosystem
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food web
Definition
a model that expresses all the posslble feeding relationships at each trophic level in a community
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Habitat
Definition
place where an organism lives out its life
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Heterotroph
Definition
Organisms that can't make their own food and must feed on other organismes to obtaim energy and nutrients
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Parasitism
Definition
a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of the other species
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Population
Definition
a group of organisms of one species that inerbreed and live in the some place at the same time
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Cellular respiration
Definition
Chemical process by which mitochondria break down dood molecules to produce ATP
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Guard cell
Definition
cells that control the opening and closing of the stomata
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Phloem
Definition
Vascular plant tissue composed of tubular cells joined end to end
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Pistil
Definition
The female reproduction structure of a flower
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Photosynthesis
Definition
The process by which autotrophs,such as algae and plants, trap energy from sunlight with chlorophyll and use this energy to convert carbon diocide and water into simple sugars
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Pollination
Definition
The transfer of male pollen grains to the pistil of a flower
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Stamen
Definition
the male reproduction structure of a flower comsisting of an anther and a lilament
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Stoma
Definition
Opening in the cuticle of a leaf epidermis that controls gas exchande for respiration and photosynthesis
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Transpiration
Definition
in plants,the loss of water throught leaf stomata by evaporation
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Vascular
Definition
Tissues found in vascular plants composed of tubelike, elingated cell throught which water food and other matericl ate transported throughtout the Plant
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Xylen
Definition
Vascular plants tissue composed of tubular cells that transprot water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plants
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Allele
Definition
an alternative form of a gene for each variation of trait of an organism
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Chromosome
Definition
cell structures that carry the genetic material that is copied and passed from generation to generation of cells
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Crossing over
Definition
Exchange of genetic material between nonsister chrmatids from homologous chromosomes
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Diploid
Definition
Cell with two of each kind of Chromosome
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DNA replication
Definition
The process in which DNA is copied before mitosis or meiosis
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Dominant
Definition
an obserbed trait of an organism that masks the recessive form of a trait
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Gamete
Definition
Male or female sex cells
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Gene
Definition
a segment of DNA that controls the protein and the cell cycle
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Genotype
Definition
A combination of genes in an organism
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Haploid
Definition
A cell with one of each kind of Chromosome
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Heterozygous
Definition
Having two different allels for a trait
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