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| Double stranded nucleic acid; contains genetic information coded in specific sequences of its constituent nucleotides |
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| Process by which new individuals are produced |
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| all the progressive changes that take place throughout the life of an organism |
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| The sum of all the chemical processes that occur within a cell or organism; the transformation by which energy and matter are made available for use by the organism |
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| the balanced internal environment of the body; automatic tendency of an organism to maintain such a steady state |
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| The theory that the cell is the basic unit of life, of which all living things are composed and the cells are derived from pre-existing cells |
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| The basic structural and functional unit of life, which consists of living material enclosed by a membrane |
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| One of the specialized structures within the cell, such as the mitochondria, golgi complex, ribosomes, or contractile vacuole |
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| A group of organisms of the same species that live in a defined geographicarea at the same time |
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| An association of populations of different species living together in a defined habitat with some degree of interdependence |
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| The interacting system that encompasses a community snd its nonliving. physical environment |
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| A large, relatively distinct terrestrial region characterized by a similar climate, soil, plants, and animals, regardless of where it occurs on earth |
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| All of earth's living organisms, collectively |
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| An organism that synthesizes complex organic compounds from simple inorganic raw materials |
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| Organism that obtains energy from inorganic compounds and synthesizes organic compounds from inorganic raw materials; includes some bacteria |
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| Transforming light enrgy to chemical energy through photosynthesis |
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| An organism that can not synthesize its own food from inorganic raw materials and therefore must obtain energy from other organisms |
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| Microbial heterotrophs that break down dead organic material and use thedecomposition products as a source of energy |
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| a structural and functional region of a protein |
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| A broad taxonomic category made up of related phyla; many biologists currently recognize six kingdoms of living organisms |
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| A taxoonomic grouping of related, similar classes; a category beneath the kingdom and above the class |
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| A taxonomic category made up of related genera |
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| A taxonomic category made up of related species |
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| One or more populations whose members are capable of interbreeding in nature to produce fertile offspring and do not interbreed with members of other species |
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| The science of naming, describing and classifying organisms |
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| System of naming species by the combination of the genus name and a specific epithet |
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| Prokaryotic organisms with a number of features, such as the absence of peptidoglycan in their cell walls, that set them apart from the bacteria. |
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| Lives in heat, salt, acid conditions and process methane |
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| Lives in soil, on other organisms and on surfaces |
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| An orgnism whose cells have nuclei and other membrane-enclosed organelles. Includes protists, fungi, plants, and animals |
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| One of a vast kingdom of eukaryotic organisms, primarily unicellular or simple multicellular; mostly aquatic |
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| A heterotrophic eukaryote with chitinous cell walls and a body usually in the form of a mycelium of branched, threadlike hyphae |
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| Complex kingdom, nonvascular and vascular plants, photosynthestic, cell walls |
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| Multicellular heterotrophs, complex tissues and organs, movement |
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| Any cumulative genetic changes in a population from generation to generation |
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| Observe, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, results |
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| A testable statement about the nature of an observation or relationship |
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| Generated by hypothesis which can be tested |
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| Endosymbiotic Theory of Cell Evolution |
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| Characteristics of an object, process, or behavior that could not be pedicted fro its component parts |
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| The reasoning that uses specific examples to draw a general conclusion or discover a general principle |
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| The reasoning that operates from generalities to specifics and can make relationships among data more apparent |
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