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40 Cards in this Set
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What does Biotic refers to?
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Living things
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What does Abiotic refers to?
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Non-living things
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What are all living things made out of?
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Cells
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how are living things organized?
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Atoms
molecule cell tissue organ organ system organism population community ecosystem biosphere |
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What are emergent properties?
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Properties governed by the laws of chemistry and physics.
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What do living things acquire?
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materials and energy
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What does metabolism mean?
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The sum of all chemical reactions in the body
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What is the ultimate source of energy for nearly all life on earth?
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The sun
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How do plants capture solar energy?
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By a process called photosynthesis.
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All life on earth acquire energy by metabolizing nutrient molecules made by/
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Photosynthesis
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To survive its imperative that an organism maintain a state of biological balance called?
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Homeostasis
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Living things respond and interact with?
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The environment and other living things
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The ability to respond often results in?
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Movement
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Every type of living thing can?
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Reproduce and develop
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How do bacteria, protists and other unicellular organisms reproduce?
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It splits in two
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What do genes contain?
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Specific information for how a organism is to be ordered.
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What happens when living things reproduce?
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Their genes are passed on to the next generation
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What does it mean for an organism to have adaption?
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Modifications that make organisms better able to function in a particular environment.
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What does evolution means/
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The unifying concept of biology
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What are the levels of classifications?
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Domain
Kingdom phylum Class Order family Genus Species |
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Which is the least inclusive?
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Species
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What does prokaryotes lack?
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The membrane bound nucleus
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Examples of protists?
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Algea, slime molds, and water molds
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Examples of Kingdon fungi?
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Molds, mushrooms, yeasts and ringworms
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Examples of kingdon plants?
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Certain algea, mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering palnts
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Examples of kingdom animals?
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Sponges, worms, insects, fishes, frogs, turtles, birds and mammals
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What do biologists use to assign each living thing a 2 part name?
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binomial nomenclature
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What does natural selection means?
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The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
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How does mutation fuel natural selection?
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it introduces variations among members of a population.
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what does biosphere means?
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The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth or other planet occupied by living organisms.
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How is the biosphere organized?
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Population, community and ecosystem.
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Which are the most biologically diverse ecosystems?
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Tropical rain forest and coral reefs
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What does Biodiversity means/
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The total number and relative abundance of species, the variability of their genes and different ecosystems in which they live in.
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what does extinction means?
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The death of a species or larger classification category.
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What does biology means?
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the study of life.
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What is the scientific method?
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Observation
Hypothesis experiment conclusion Scientific Theory |
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Where do new cells come from?
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Preexisting cells
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Evolution?
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All living things have a common ancestor, but each is adapted to a particular way of life
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What are the results of an experiment referred to as?
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Data
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What is a scientific Theory?
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Theory supported by a broad range of observations, experiment, and data often from a variety of disciplines.
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