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Ms. Beach Test
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7th Grade
10/18/2010

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Autotrophic
Definition
When an organism makes it's food from inorganic material
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Heterotrophic
Definition
an organism that obtains organic material by eating anoteher organism
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Parasite
Definition
AN organism that lives off or feeds of another organism of another species. usually harming the host organism but the host never benifits from it
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Euglena
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A genus Protist that lives in water, performs photosynthesis, moves around and sometimes eats other organisms for food
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Paramecium
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A type of genus Protist that reproduces sexually through conjugation. It has two nuclieu- one for performing cell functions and one for passing genes  to another Paramecium during conjugation
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Amoeba
Definition
Protists that move and hetrotrophic, live in all kinds of water, soil, and as parasites in animals. They are soft and jelly like
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Model
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An item used to re-display the structure of an object
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Theory
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A series of ideas that explain observations and are formed by scientific evidence

 

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Law
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A descriptive statement that predicts what will happen when something occurs
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Compound Light Microscope
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an instrument that magnifies an image so it can be seen by one or two lense
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