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| highly organized, tiny structures with thin coverings called membranes. Smallest unit capable of all life funtions |
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| the sum of all of the chemical reactions carried out in an organism |
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| the maintenance of stable internal conditions in spite of changes in the external environment |
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| sets of inherited instructions for making proteins |
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| the passing of traits from parent to offspring |
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| a change in the dna of a gene |
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| change in the inherited traits of species over time |
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| group of genetically similar organisms that can produce fertile offspring |
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| the process in which organisms with favorable genes are more likeley to survive and reproduce |
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| the science that studies the interactions of living organisms with one another and with the nonliving part of their environment |
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| the process by which organisms make more of their own kind from one generation to the next |
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