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| combined biotic and abiotic factors found in the are where an organism lives. |
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| all of the ohysical, chemical, and biological factors that a species needs to survive, stay healthy, and reproduce in an ecosystem. |
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| theory that states no two species may occupy at the same time. |
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| organisms that share a similar niche but lives in different geographical regions. |
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| ecological relationship between members of at least two different species that live in direct contact with each other. |
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| normal warming effect produced when gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in Earth's atmosphere. |
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| worldwide trend of increasing in average temperatures. |
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| species whose presence in an ecosystem gives clues about the condition of that ecosystem. |
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| the condition of toxic substances being more concentrated in tissues of organisms higer on the food chain that ones lower in the food chain. |
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| process by which stem cells become committed to develop into only one kind of cell. |
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| process by which committed cells acquire the structures and functions of highly specialized cells. |
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| what is the levels of organizations for a cell? |
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| Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism |
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| regulation and maintenance of constant internal conditions in an organism |
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| control system for homeostatis that adjusts the body's conditions that varies from the ideal condition. |
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| Control syste in which sensory information causes te body to incraese the rate of change away from homeostasis. |
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| process of the body maintaining a stable internal temperature under various conditions. |
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