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| The part of a chromosome that governs a particular trait |
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| A diagram that is used to predict outcomes of genetic combinations. |
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| A trait that appears only if it is inherited from both parents...shown by a lower case letter |
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| A trait that appears only if it is inherited from both parents....shown by a lower case letter |
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| A change in a gene caused by environmental damage or random error |
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| When the environment changes, such as the climate becoming colder or dryer |
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| organisms with favorable hereditary traits that are more likely to survive and reproduce than other organisms |
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| group of similar organisms that can have offspring together |
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| all the members of a species living in an area |
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| nonliving environmental factors |
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| such things as amount of sunlight, temperature, soil, moisture |
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| all of the organisms found in a single ecosystem |
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| Biomes or land ecosystems |
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| Temperate forests, tropical rain forest, grassland, desert, tundra |
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| Ecological Succession or secondary succession |
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| Drastic events such as wildfires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, that bring a series of changes to an ecosystem |
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| The gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another |
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| The gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another |
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| Basic unit of all living things |
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| From Reproduction of Existing Cells |
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| Where do new living cells come from? |
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| Carries out cell funtions |
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| jellylike fluid inside a cell |
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| cell boss, control center for the cell |
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| Varied, often rounded...they have no cell wall only a cell membrane |
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| What is the shape of plant cells |
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| rectangular...has a cell wall to give it shape...cell membrane within the cell wall |
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| maintaining a stable internal environment. |
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| movement of water through a selectively permeable membrane from a region of less solutes to a region with more solutes |
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| random movement of molecules form higher concentration to lower concentration |
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| pressure of water against a plant cell wall |
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| division of the nucleus of a cell |
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Process by which plants use light, wate and carbon dioxide to produce glucose and oxygen
6CO2 + 6H20 -> C6H12O6 + 6O2
energy |
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| the opposite of photosynthesis....process whereby a cell,plant or animal, uses glucose and oxygen to provide energy and gives off carbon dioxide and water |
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| trait that an organism inherits from its parents...tallness, eye color, etc |
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