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| The process of change over time. |
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| The scientific study of life. |
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| What are the seven properties of life? |
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- Order
- Evolutionary Adaptation
- Response to the Environment
- Ability to Regulate
- Energy Processing
- Growth and Development
- Reproduction
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| Living organisms display a high degree of order in their structure - at all levels. |
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| What is evolutionary adaptation? |
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| Living organisms fit their environment. When the environment changes, organisms must adapt. |
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| What is an organism's response to the environment? |
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| Sensing, responding, adapting, and surviving. |
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| What is the ability to regulate? |
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| An organism's changes in internal conditions. |
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| What is energy processing? |
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| The processing of some sort of energy source into energy used to power life activities. |
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| What is growth and development? |
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| Living organisms grow (if multicellular, the size and number of their cells increase; if unicellular, it only increases in size) and develop (according to instructions inherited in their DNA). |
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| When organisms reach a certain age (maturity), they reproduce. |
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| What does reproduction do? |
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| It balances mortality and maintains population size. |
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| What is natural selection? |
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| The process that fits organisms to their environment. |
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