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"house to study" the study of organisms and their eviroments
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ecology
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the adress, the place, abotic |
habitat
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all the species which live in a ecosystem
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community
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the # of individuals of one species in a defined place at a defined time
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populations
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the members of one type of organism able to mate and produce fertile offspring in natural conditions
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species
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how an organism makes its living
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niche
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uses energy to make food for self
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atotrophic
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eats others to get food energy
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heterotrophic
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eats plants
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herbavore
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eats flesh
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carnavore
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eats both
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ommnivore
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consumes as able
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scavenger
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carron
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dead animal
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lives off another animal without killing it
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paracite
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consumes small food in mass
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filter feeder
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consumes dead plant matter
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detritus feeder
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to live togther
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symbiosis
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one benefits and the other has no effect
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commensalism
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live in or on without effecting
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Pharisees
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both benifit no requirement
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proto copulation
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both benefit required for life
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mutualism
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one that lives as a parasite
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paramecium
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no to species can occupy the same niche in the same place
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competitive evolution principal
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diagram of food engery from producer to consumer
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food chain
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position in food chain bottom= producer top= predator
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trophic levels
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accumalation of toxin in top predators
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biological magnification
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no two species can occupy the same niche at the same time
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ecological equivalence.
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mitochondria
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Spherical or rod-shaped organelles found within the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, engergy producers
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chloroplasts
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chlorophyll-containing plastid found in algal and green plant cells.
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central dogma of bio
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is an explanation of the flow of genetic information within a biological system.
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autotrophic
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can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources
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heterotrophic
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requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment; "most animals are heterotrophic".
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aerobic
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Relating to, involving, or requiring free oxygen
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5 types of niches
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producer, herbivore,carnivore, scavenger, decomposer
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bacteria cells
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coccus (spherical)
bacillus (rod-like) spirillum (spiral) |
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evolutionary evidence
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vestigal, homologus/ analogus, geological, biochem, modernday example, geography, embryo, diversity
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human taxonomy
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ANIMALIA - CHORDATA - MAMMALIA - PRIMATA - HOMINIDAE - HOMO - SAPIENS
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limiting factor
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Web definitions
A limiting factor or limiting resource is a factor that controls a process, such as organism growth or species population, size |
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carrying capasity
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The number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
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exponential growth
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Growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.
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ATP
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Web definitions
ATP synthase is a general term for an enzyme that can synthesize adenosine triphosphate |
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RuBP carboxylase
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bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase
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food web
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A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
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altricial
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Hatched or born in an undeveloped state and requiring care and feeding by the parents.
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precocial
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Hatched or born in an advanced state and able to feed itself almost immediately.
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ecological pyramids
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An ecological pyramid (also trophic pyramid or energy pyramid) is a graphical representation designed to show the biomass or biomass productivity at each trophic level in a given ecosystem.
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biomes
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Noun
A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat. |
