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| 9 Characteristics of Life |
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| respond to external stimuli, alter the environment, sense the environment, adapt to the environment, adapt to the environment, use energy, reproduce, contain materials found only in living organisms, maintain homeostasis, have a high degree of organization |
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| smallest units of life, contained in a membrane or cell wall, smallest unit that can live and reproduce on its own or as a part of a multi-celled organism (ex:humans) |
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| a group of cells with SIMILAR function (ex: muscle or bone) |
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| composed of more than one tissue having one or more specific function |
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| a group of organs that perform a broad biological function (ex: cardiovascular system) |
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| Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism |
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| controlled by both the conscious and unconscious responses, living things must maintain it, helps organism stay alive through the use of feedback systems |
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| takes away balance of homeostasis, reduces or eliminates changes detected by stimulus receptor |
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| brings the body back to homeostasis |
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| Flow of the feedback systems |
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| Stimulus receptor, Control center, Effector (S C E) |
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| Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Eukarya |
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| Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia (A E P F P A) |
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| kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species (King Phylus Claps of Fakes Great Speech) |
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| witnessing an unusual or unexpected phenomenon |
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| designing and running an experiment to test the validity of the hypothesis |
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| factors that can be changed in an experiment to test whether or how it affects the outcome |
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| creating a general statement from observations *hypothesis creation |
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| creating general hypothesis to a specific situation *experimental design |
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| a general uniting principle of science, upheld by observation and MANY experiments |
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