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| The key characteristics of life |
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- Organized into cells
- response to environmental change
- reproduction
- using energy
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viewed differently by different people
characterized not fully understood
history of 7 billion years
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| provides the understanding of life |
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| smallest unit of life that can exist as a seperate entity |
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| similar functions to a computer chip |
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| The Ability to Acquire store transfer and utilize energy |
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| Homeostasis provides what kind of environment |
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| The first explanation to a problem |
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| in order to arrive at a solution a scientist devises one or more |
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| The control in an experiment |
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| allows a standard of comparison for the experimental group |
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molecules
electron
protons
atoms |
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| The atomic number refers to the |
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| number of protons and neutrons in the atom |
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| have an excess number of isotopes |
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| The negative subatomic particle is the |
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| The nucleus of an atom contains |
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| he process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it in the bonds of sugar. This process occurs in plants and some algae (Kingdom Protista). Plants need only light energy, CO2, and H2O to make sugar. |
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