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Biology
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Scientific Study of Life
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Consumer
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Animals that take in o2 and release co2
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Decomposer
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Prokaryotes and fungi that secrete enzymes that digest nutrients from organic material and convert them into inorganic forms
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Deductive reasoning
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A type of logic which specifies results are predicted from a general premise
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Emergent properties
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New properties that arise with each step upward in the hierachy of life, owning to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases
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Prokaryotic cell
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Lacks membrane-enclosed nucleus & other membrane-enclosed organelles. Found only in domains Bacteria & Archaea
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Evolution
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Descent with modification; the idea that living species are descendants of ancestral species that were different from present day ones; also, genetic changes in a population from generation to generation.
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Gene
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A discrete unit of hereditary information consisting of a specific nucleotide sequence in DNA (or RNA, in some viruses). Most of the genes of a eukaryote are located in its chromosomal DNA: a few are carried by the DNA of mitochondria and chloroplasts.
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Hypothesis
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A testable explanation for a set of observations based on the available data and guided by inductive reasoning.
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Inductive reasoning
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A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of observations.
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Producer
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An organism that makes organic food molecules from Co2 and H2o and other inorganic raw materials: a plant, alga, or autotrophic prokaryote.
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Eukaryotic cell
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Membrane-enclosed nucleus & organelles. Found in plants, animals, fungi & protists
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