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What is metabolism?
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Living things take in chemicals and energy from their environment and carry out chemical reactions which transform to energy
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Explain how plants and animals differ in term of direct source of energy for survival?
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plants are able to utilize the energy from the sun thru process of photosynthesis. Animals utilize chemical engery stored within food molecules
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What are two types of reproduction? and how they differ?
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Asexual-one parent produces offspring which are identical to parent
Sexual production-two parents contribute not identical |
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What is genetic variation?
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members of a species differ genetically from each other. due to sexual reproduction and multation
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What two major factors cause genetic variation?
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sexual reproduction which recombines genes and mutation which are random changes in genes
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What is differential survival?
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the concepts that organisms vary in their ability to survive
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What differ survival hav to do with evolution?
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occurs when individuals with certain genes survive better than others
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What is adapation? Example
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adapatation characteristic of a living organism that enables it survival in a particular environment.--ex. gills are fish to survice in water
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