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19 Cards in this Set
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Microorganism
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A living thing that, as a fully mature individual, is too small to be seen without
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Aseptic technique
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A means of protecting yourself as well as everything around you from microorganisms.
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Bacteria
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Cellular organisms lacking nuclei
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Virus
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A life form that is neither a cell nor consists of cells
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Yeast
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A fungus that in its mature form exists as a single cell.
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Protozoa
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Single-celled eukaryotic organisms that are not photosynthetic.
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Algae
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Eukaryotic organisms that are photosynthetic and not plants.
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Prions
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Infectious proteins
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Cellular Differentiation
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When different cells in the same organism have different functions and
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Soma
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Those cells in multicellular organisms that are responsible for all functions except for
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Germ cells
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Those cells in a multicellular organism that undergo meiotic division.
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Ecology
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The interaction of an organism with its environment.
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Environment
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The biotic and abiotic entities that an organism interacts with.
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Population
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A group of organisms all of the same species.
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Community
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A group of organisms consisting of different species.
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Ecosystem
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A well delimited environment consisting of both biotic and abiotic components
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Niche
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The components of environments that an organism either exploits or tolerates.
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Logistic Growth
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Population growth that is then limited by resource availability in an environment
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Carrying Capacity
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The size of a population that can persist indefinitely within an environment.
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