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Series of steps that biologists and other scientists use to gather information and answer questions; include observing and hypothesizing, experimenting, and fathering and interpreting results

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Scientific method

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Designing an experiment (hypothesis, control, experiment, conclusion)

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Experimental design

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Group of ecosystems with the same climax communities; biomes on land are called terrestrial, on water are called aquatic

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Biomes

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Organism in a food chain that represents a feeding step in the passage of energy and materials through an ecosystem

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Trophic levels

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Model that expresses all the possible feeding relationships at each trophic level in a community

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Food web

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Organisms that use energy from the sun

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Autotroph

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Consumers

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Heterotroph

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Makes own energy

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Producer

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Orderly, natural changes, and species replacements that take place in ecosystem communities over time

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Succession (1st and 2nd)

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Association of different species

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Symbiosis

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One harms another

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Parasitism

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One benefits, one neither benefits or is harmed

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Commensalism

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Both benefit

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Mutualism

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Number of organisms of one species that an environment can support; populations below increase, above, decrease

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Carrying capacity

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Variety of a life in an area

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Biodiversity

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Occur when predators in a food web suppress the abundance or alter traits of their prey, thereby releasing the next lower trophic level from predation

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Trophic cascade

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The arrangement or spread of people living in a given area

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Population distribution

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Carbon, nitrogen, water, phosphorous cycles

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Nutrient cycles

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+ charged center of an atom, contains protons and neutrons

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Nucleus

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Positively charged particles, inside nucleus

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Protons

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Negatively charged particles in electron cloud

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Electrons

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Neutrally charged particles inside nucleus

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Neutrons

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= protons

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Atomic number

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= protons + neutrons

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Atomic mass

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Chemical bond formed when two atoms combine by sharing electrons

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Covalent bond

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Chemical bond formed by the attractive force between two ions of opposite charge

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Ionic bond

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Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus

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Isotope

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Special characteristics of water

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Polar, transports things, resists temperature changes

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Movement of particles from higher to an area of lower

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Diffusion

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Diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane depending on the concentration of solutes on either side of the membrane

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Osmosis

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Molecule with an unequal distribution of charge, resulting in the molecule hVing a positive end and a negative end

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Polar molecule

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Large, complex polymer essential to all life composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and usually sulfur; provided structure for tissues and organs and helps carry out cell metabolism

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Proteins

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Main source for the body to gain energy ; carbon, hydrogen, oxygen

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Carbohydrates

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Insulate the body to maintain normal body temp, cushion internal organs for protection

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Lipids

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Complex macromolecules such as rna and DNase, that store genetic information in cells in the form of a code

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Nucleic acid

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Basic building blocks of protein molecules

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Amino acids

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Covalent bond formed between amino acids

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Peptide bond

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Type of protein found in all living things that increases the rate of chemical reactions

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Enzyme

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Unicellular or multicellular organisms such as yeast, plants, and animals, composed of eukaryotic cells, which contain a true nucleus and membrane bound organelles

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Eukaryotes

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Unicellular organisms, such as bacteria, composed of prokaryotic cells. They lack internal membrane bound structures

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Prokaryote

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Membrane bound structures within eukaryotic cells

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Organelles

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Clear, gelatinous fluid inside a cell

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Cytoplasm

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ER is the site of chemical reactions. Areas where ribosomes do not attach to ER

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Smooth ER

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ER has ribosomes attached

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Rough ER

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Membrane bound fluid filled space in the cytoplasm of plant cells used for the temporary storage of materials

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Vacuole

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Eukaryotic membrane bound organelles that transform energy stored in food molecules into atp; has a highly folded inner membrane that produces energy storing molecules

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Mitochondria

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Chlorophyll containing cell organelles found in the cells of green plants and some protists; capture light energy from the sun, which is converted to chemical energy in food molecules

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Chloroplasts

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In eukaryotic cells, the central membrane bound organelle that manages cellular functions and contains DNA

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Nucleus

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Organelles that contain digestive enzymes; digest excess or worn out organelles, food particles, and engulfed viruses or bacteria

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Lysosomes

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Firm, fairly rigid structure located outside the plasma membrane of plants, fungi, most bacteria, and some protists; provides support and protection

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Cell wall

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The boundary between the cell and it’s environment, to slow a steady supply of these nutrients to come into the cell no matter what the external conditions are

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Cell membrane/ plasma membrane

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Critical for the formation and function; fatty acid rails are no polar, head of the phosphate is polar

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Phospholipid bilateral

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Homeostasis

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The process of maintaining balance within the cell

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Adaptation

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Evolution of a structure, behavior, or internal process that enables an organism to respond to stimuli and better survive in an environment

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Carbohydrates

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Main source for the body to gain energy, make up cell walls in plants

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Nucleus

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Leader of the eukaryotic cell, contains the directions to make proteins

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Prokaryote

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Cells lacking internal membrane bound structures, unicellular organisms, bacteria

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Ribosomes

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Non membrane bound organelles in the nucleus where enzymes and other proteins are assembled

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Phospholipid bilayer

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Two layers of phospholipids back to back (lipids with a phosphate group–phosphorous and oxygen)

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Compare/contrast plant and animal cells

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Animal cells have vacuoles

Plant cells are larger than animal cells, and have cell walls and chloroplasts