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| All parts of the planet inhabited by living things |
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| community of living things in an area |
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| Basic unit of living things |
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| Living things made of more than one cell |
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| internal steady state or balance maintained by an organism |
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| a characteristic that mades an organism better suited to its environment |
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| Use of the senses to record data |
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| Data that can be described instead of measured (use of senses) |
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| Data that can be measured or counted (ie how many?) |
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| logical conclusion based on observation |
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| A suggested answer to a well-defined scientific question |
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| variable that is being counted or measured |
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| what is being changed or manipulated (ie temperature rising) |
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| an experiment that tests the effect of a single variable |
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| well tested explanation that makes sense of observations |
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| Data that is based in numbers |
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| data that is not based on numbers/amounts |
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| two part naming system with Genus (capitalized) and species (not cap.) |
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| Tool for identifying organisms |
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| system of naming organisms |
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broadest taxonimic category
(top level category) |
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| third level of classification - between Phylumn and Order (K P C O F G S) |
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Second Broadest Category of naming things
(K P C O F G S) (king phillip came over for gold specks) |
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| King Phillip Came OVER (ORDER) for gold specks. (Between Class and Family) |
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classification above genus
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| capitalized in naming system, above species |
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| Study of organisms and their relationships wtih the environment |
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| living parts of environment (ie plants, organisms) |
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| non-living parts of environment(ie sunshine, temperature) |
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| Organisms of one species in one area |
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| organisms inhabiting one specific area |
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| where ann organism lives in its environment |
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| temperature over a long period of time |
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| small scale differences in temperature such as shade/windbreak/snow cover, etc |
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| where stream water joins with ocean water |
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| complex branching relationships of feeding in an ecosystem - food chains |
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| maxinum number of individuals of a species that can be suupported by an environment |
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| the rate at which the populationw ould produce young if all individuals lived and reproduced at max. capacity |
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| close interaction between two species where one lives on or in another |
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| both species benefit (ie plants needing fungi on roots to dissolve nitrogen and fungi gets home) |
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| a form of predation - only one benefits |
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| one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped. (ie barnacle on whale) |
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| makes its own food (ie plant) |
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| can not make food and feeds off other organsims |
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| eats non plants - eats animals, i.e meat |
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| in plant cells only - around the cell membrane to provide protection and support for the cell |
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| functions in the storage of substances. |
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| function as the site of protein synthesis |
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| The energy releasing organelle of an animal cell involved in cellular respiration. |
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| Functions in photosynthesis |
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| Aid in digestion of nutrients, molecules and worn cell organelles |
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| helps the cell to retain and change shape |
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lesser concentration of solutes, higher concentration of solvent than the cell. Cell volume increases.
(Think of a hippo as being large) |
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| Division of parent cell cytoplasm into two daughter cells. |
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| boundary of the cell. isolates cell from outside enviroment. Selectively permeable made of a phospholipid by layer. |
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| Main points of cell theory |
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| The cell is the basic structual unit of life. the cell is the basic functional unit of life. All living things posses at least one cell. Cells come from preexisting cells. |
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| Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum |
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| Site for ribosome attachment, creates transport proteins |
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| Houses the organelles and cell contents |
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Membrane bound sac that functions in transport.
(Think of a vehicle) |
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| Produces ribosomes. Contains Chromatin |
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| recieves transport vesicles. modifies sort and activates proteins. Produces transport vesicles. Produces lysosomes. |
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| possess a nucleus and membrane bound organelles. |
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Higher concentration of solutes. cell volume decreases
(think of hyper (busy) being smaller people) |
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| Active transport/ passive transport |
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| Higher concentration of solutes. cell volume decreases |
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| Difference in the concentration of molecules between two locations |
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| diffusion of water across a selectively premeable membrane |
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| solution possessing the SAME concentration of the solutes and solvent as cell |
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spontaneous movement of molecules from a high to low concentration. Move down the concentration gradient.
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| Compound that contains H+ ions and measures less than 7 on pH scale |
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| Comopound that removes H+ ions and measures more than 7 on pH scale |
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| Smallest particle of an element |
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| organic compound made of sugar molecules in ration of 1 C to 2H to 1 O |
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Nucleus of a cell is the "brain of the cell" and contains the genetic material
Nucleus of an atom is the central portion of the atom that contains the Protons and Neutrons |
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| Substance containing two or more elements |
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| sub atomic particle with a single unit of negative electric charge |
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| Pure substance withone type of atom |
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| Specialized protein with that catalyzes (speeds up ) the chemical reactions in a cell |
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| Chemical compounds that lack carbon |
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| Atom that has become charged due to gain or loss of electron |
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| A water avoiding compound that is found in cells and makes up part of the membrane |
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| Two or more atoms held together by a covalent bond |
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| Small molecular unit that is the building block of a larger molecule |
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| Neutrally charged particle found in the nucleus of an atom |
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| Building block of the nucleic acid polymers |
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a compound that has carbon in the molecule
(except for carbon dioxide) |
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| a range of numbers from 0 - 14 that is used to describe how acidic (less than 7) or basic (over 7) a solution is |
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| a long chain of smaller molecular units |
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| sub atomic particle found in the nucleus of an atom that has a single positive charge |
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the material created as a result of a chemical reaction
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the starting material for a chemical reaction
(the arrow points to the products) |
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| A chemical reaction taht can go back and forth from products to reactants |
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| the cycle a cell goes through from a resting cell, to a cell getting ready to divide, to the stages of cell division and back to a resting cell |
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a part of a cell with a specific function
(like nucleus is the brain of the cell) |
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| Substance in a solution that is dissolved and is present in smaller amounts (like the stuff you stirred in ) |
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| the substance in a solution that dissolves the other substance and is present in greater amounts |
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| Cell division for sexual reproduction where the end result is four daughter cells |
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| Cell division for asexual reproduction where the end result is two identical daughter cells |
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