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| The ability to do "work"or cause a change |
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| Energy available to be used |
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| Energy not available to be used (disorder) |
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| First Law of Bioenergetics |
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| The total amount of energy in the universe is constant |
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| Second Law of Bioenergetics |
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| In energy conversions the amount of free energy in a system decreases and the amount of entrophy increases |
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| When organisms use radiant energy to produce chemical bond energy |
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| When organisms can take chemical bond energy into food |
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| Sum of all chemical reactions that produce ATP |
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| Sum of anabolism and catabolism |
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| Group of organisms of the same species in a given area at a given time |
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| Group of populations in a given area at a given time |
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| Group of populations in a given area at a given time (the abiotic factors of an ecosystem plus biotic factors) |
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| Living and nonliving components of the earth |
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| All living things on earth |
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| Large environmental unit determined by climate |
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| Transfer of energy from one trophic level to the next |
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| Two or more interlocking food chains |
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| A group of like or similar organisms that actually or potentially interbreed to produce fertile offspring |
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| A species' role in the enviornment |
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| No two species can occupy the same niche for an extended period of time |
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| Orderly process of community change |
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