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Chlorophyll
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A green pigment found in most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae or bacteria).
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Chloroplasts
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Organelles found in plant cells and other eukaryotic organisms that conduct photosynthesis
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Reductionism
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The reduction of complex systems to simpler components that are more manageable to study.
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The Power and Limitations of Reductionism
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We cannot fully explain a higher level of order by breaking it down into its parts. Yet, something as coplex as an organism or a cell cannot be analyzed without taking it apart.
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emergent properties
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New properties that arise with each step upward in the hierarchy of life, due to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases.
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Heat is a mode of motion that is synonymous to energy.
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2 objects of different size with the same temperature has different heat energy. Heat depends on volume. The greater the volume, the greater the heat or total kinetic energy.
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Does distilled water contain salt?
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To distill water is to heat it to the point that it boils. Water vapor will rise and condensed to go into a separate container to collect.
Through this boiling and recollecting process, the water should be free of impurities such as salt. |
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what are plastids?
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any of various cytoplasmic organelles (as an amyloplast or chloroplast) of photosynthetic cells that serve in many cases as centers of special metabolic activities.
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