Apologia Biology: Module 1

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criteria for life

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ALL LIFE:
#1 contains deoxyribonuclei, or DNA,
#2 metabolism
#3 receptors
#4 can reproduce

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metabolism

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all processes where organisms convert energy & matter from outside sources & is used to sustain life functions

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anabolism

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all processes where organisms use energy & simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals & structures necessary for life

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catabolism

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all processes where organisms break down chemicals to produce energy & simple chemical building blocks

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photosynthesis

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process by which green plants & some other organisms use energy of sunlight & simple chemicals to produce their own food

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herbivors

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organisms that eat only plants

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carnivors

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organisms that eat only
other organisms other than plants

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omnivors

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organisms that eat both plants and other organisms

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producers

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organisms that produce their own food

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consumers

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organisms that eat living producers & or other consumers for food

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decomposers

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organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms

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autotrophs,(self-feeder)

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organisms that are able to make their own food

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heterotrophs,(other-feeder)

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organisms that depend on other organisms for their food

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receptors

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special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal & external enviroment

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asexual reproduction

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reproduction acomplished by one organism

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sexual reproduction

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reproduction that requires two organisms

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inheritance

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the process by which physical & biological charcteristics are transmited from parent(s) to offspring

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mutation

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an abrupt & marked change in DNA of an organism compared to parent(s)

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hypothesis

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educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question

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theory

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a hypothesis that has been tested w/ alot of data

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scientific law

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a theory that has been tested by generations of consistent large amounts of data

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spontaneous generation

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living things appear from nonliving things

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microorganisms

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organisms too small to see w/ naked eye

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abiogenesis

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the idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions

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classifactions:

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Kingdom, Phylom, Class, Order, Family, Genus, & Species

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5 Kingdom System

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1. Monera- one or many prokaryotic
2. Protista- one or many eukaryotic
3. Fungi- decomposers, eukaryotic
4. Plantea- autotrophs, eukaryotic
5. Animalia- heretrophs, eukaryotic

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3 Kingdom System

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1. Archaea- prokaryotic organisms in exteme enviroments
2. Bacteria- prokaryotic organisms in normal enviroments
3. Eukarya- Protista, Fungi, Plantea, & Animalia

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prokaryotic

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a cell w/ no distinct, membrane-bounded organelles

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eukaryotic

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a cell w/ distinct, membrane-bounded organelles

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organells

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structure inside cell

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species

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a unit of one or more population of individuals that can reproduce under normal circumstances, produce fertal offspring, & are reproductivly isolated from other such units

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taxonomy

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science of classifying organisms

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binomial nomenclature

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naming an organismm w/ its genus & species name

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evolution

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all life formed from simple life forms that lived for billions of years, & formed through abiogenesis

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baraminology

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study of created things

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Scientific Method

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make observation,
form hypothesis to explain observation, collect data to test hypothesis, if data is consistent w/ hypothesis it becomes a theory, continue to test theory w/ generations of data, if data is consistent, the theory becomes a scientific law