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| a material in which a wave travels |
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| a wave that can travel only through matter |
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| the region of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are farthest apart |
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| the lowest point on a transverse wave |
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| a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter |
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| the highest point on a transverse wave |
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| the distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it |
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| a wave in which the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction the wave travels |
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| the maximum distance a wave varies from its resting position |
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| a rapid back-and-forth motion that can occur in solids, liquids, or gases |
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| a longitudinal wave that can travel only through matter |
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| the amount of energy that passes through a square meter of space in one second |
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| the perception of how high or low a sound is |
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| occurs when waves overlap and combine to form a new wave |
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| the change of pitch when a sound source is moving in relation to an observer |
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| a cell that has pairs of chromosomes |
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| the abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid, an organism's genetic material |
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| the female reproductive, or sex, cell |
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| a male reproductive, or sex, cell |
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| the cell that forms when a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell |
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| cell division that forms two genetically identical cells |
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| a reproductive process in which a sperm joins with an egg |
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| a type of asexual reproduction performed in a lab that produces identical individuals from a cell or cluster of cells taken from a multicellular organism |
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| a type of reproduction in which one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and fertilization |
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| type of reproduction in which the genetic material from two different cells--a sperm and an egg--combine, producing offspring |
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| a cell that has only one chromosome from each pair |
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| the process during which a new organism grows by mitosis and cell division on the body of its parent |
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| the process of rowing living tissue in a lab |
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| the study of how sound interacts with structures |
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| the bouncing of a wave off a surface |
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| a system that uses the reflection of sound waves to find underwater objects |
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| the process an animal uses to locate an object by means of reflected sounds |
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| a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth. |
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| a process in which one diploid cell divides to make four haploid cells |
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| the transfer of energy from a wave to the medium through which it travels |
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| the number of wavelengths that pass by a point each second |
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| region of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are closest together |
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