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Biological Diversity |
Different species of animals in one place living like the food chain. |
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Biotic |
Describes one living/non-living thing in a community |
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Population |
The total inhabitants in one area |
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Niche |
The position or place of something |
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Decomposer |
An organism that breaks down organic materials (ex. fungus, moss, lichen) |
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Commensalism |
One of two organisms that take benefits from the other without affect. |
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Inter species Competition |
When two different species compete for the same thing. Individuals from the same species also compete. |
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Variation |
A difference in traits, level, amounts from something. |
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Heritable Characteristics |
Traits that get transferred through your DNA. |
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Continuous Traits |
Traits that are transferred over a mayor scale. |
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Budding |
Plant developing buds |
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Cuttings |
Something cut from another thing |
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Plant Variation |
Difference between cells in plants |
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Gametes |
A cell that can combine with another cell |
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Cleavage |
Cell division in a federalized egg |
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Pollination |
when pollen is transferred to the female part of the plant |
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Chromosome |
Nucleic acids and proteins in the neculus of the cell |
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Mitosis |
Cells are identical to parents |
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Purebred |
When the parents are the same breed |
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Recessive Trait |
They have the same genes but do not look the same |
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Extirpation |
Extinction of a species in an area |
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Habitat Distruction |
The destruction of habitats. |
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Biotechnology |
The biological enhances |
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In-virto Fertilization |
Working with a species in its environment to help it. |
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Ex-situ Conservation |
Working with a species outside its environment to help it |
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Interspecies |
The occurring of two species |
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Abiotic |
Non-living |
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Community |
Many species in one place making a community |
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Producer |
An organism that supplies a community |
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Predator-Prey |
The relationship of one superior predator and it feeds on its prey |
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Mutualism |
Both organisms are involved. |
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Resource Partitioning |
when two species take from the same resource in one place |
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Natural Selection |
When the organisms adapt overtime to their environment |
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Non-Heritable Characteristics |
The characteristics that are not inherited from the parents. |
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Asexual Reproduction |
The reproduction of cells in one organism not two |
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Spore Production |
It adapts the organism to the environment over time |
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Fertilization |
Fertilizing an egg from a male to female |
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Embryo |
Unborn or unhatched offspring in development |
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Cross-fertilization |
Gametes are made with separate individuals |
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Gene |
The inherited traits from the parent(s) of an organism |
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Meiosis |
The prosess of the gametes being joined in reproduction |
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Hybrid |
Offspring of two different species. ex cross bred dogs |
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Incomplete Dominance |
When there is little inheritance in one allete |
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Endagered |
When a species is close to extiction |
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Invasive Species |
When a species that is not native is introduced and messes things up |
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Cloning |
An organism with identical DNA as another |
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Genetic Engineering |
Modifying the genetic material to enhance or make something immune |
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Intraspecies |
Arising or occurring between species |
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Species |
A group of organisms that are similar in traits and breed together |
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Ecosystem |
A group of many species that work together to keep the food chain working |
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Consumer |
Organisms that get energy from eating other organisms |
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Symbiosis |
Two organisms that work together to live |
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Parasitism |
One species depends on the other to live and the other is harmed |
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Artificial Selection |
Traits that are determined by the way an organism acts |
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Discrete Traits |
Traits that are determined by a small number of genes |
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Binary Fusion |
When one cell breaks into two more cells |
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Vegetative Reproduction |
when a plant takes a part of itself and is planted to make an identical plant |
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Sexual Reproduction |
When two gametes are met and make life |
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Zygote |
What the gametes make |
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Pollen |
The reproductive cells of a plant |
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DNA |
Formed by nucleic acids to make cells |
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Allele |
One form or the gene. When two are put together they make a gene |
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Traits |
The features of an organism |
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Dominant Trait |
Expressed by having two alleles |
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Extinction |
Then a species is taken off the earth forever |
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Artificial Selection |
Breeding organisms to make adaptations |
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Artificial Insemination |
When sperm is put into the uterus to induce pregnancy |
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In-situ Conservation
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When a species is conserved in its natural habitat |