Biology

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Homeostasis

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Ability to maintain an internal steady state.

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Nutrition

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Taking in food form the environment and changing it to a form the organism can use.

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Autotrophic

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Take inorganic materical and make organic matericals.

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Inorganic

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Does not contain carbon and hydrogen together.

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Organic

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Does contain carbon and hydrogen together.

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Heterotrophic

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Organism cannot make its own nutrients and must get it ready made from the environment.

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Transport

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Materials enter, leave and are distributeds withins organism or cell.

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Single-Celled

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Organisms exchanges directly with environment.

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Multicelled

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Organism exchange directly with a circulatory system that travels between cells.

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Absorbtion

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MAterials taken into an organism.

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Circulation

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Movement of materials within cell or organism.

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Respiration

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The process of releasing energy stored in nutrients.

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Ingestion

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Taking in of nutrients.

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Digestion

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Dreaking down nutrients into their parts.

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Anaerobic

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Releases energy without using oxygen to break it down.

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Aerobic

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Releases energy from nutrients with the use of oxygen.

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Sythesis

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An organisms ability to convert simple substances to from more complex ones.

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Assimilation

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Incorpratate material synthesized into the body fo organism.

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Growth

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Increase in size.
-Cell Size
-Cell Number

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Excretion

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Removal of Metabolic waste.

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Breathing

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Moving air in and out of lungs.

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Regulation

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Activities necessary to maintain homeostasis.

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Nervous System

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Fast reaction, short duration.

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Endocrince System

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Slow reaction, long duration.

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Reprodution

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Process by which organism produce more of there own species.

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Asexual

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-One parent
-Offspring and parent identical
-Ex.) Amoeba

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Sexual

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-Two parents
-Offspring is a mix; not identical to either parent
-Ex.) Human

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Metabolism

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All chemical reactios of the body.

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Anabolic

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Build up process.
Ex.)Syntheses

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Catabolic

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Break down process.
Ex.)Digestive

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Biosphere

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-All parts of a planet that are inhabited by living things
-"SHell of an egg"
-Several miles in the atmosphere to several miles below the suface
-Broadest scope of biology that contains all other scopes

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Ecosystem

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-All living and non-living things in an area
-Ex.)Woodland, Pond, Rainforest, and Ocean
-All ecosystems combine to make up the biosphere

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Organisms

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-An individual living thing
-ex.)bird, rosebuch, bacteria
-Interaction between organisms make each ecosystem a Dynamic Place

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Cells

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-The "Basic unit of Stucture and Function" for all living things
-All living things are made of one or mor cells
-Cells are tiny- 25mm in size (1mm=to 1 imllionth of a meter)

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DNA

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-is a molecule-a colleciton of atoms in definite proportion and sequence
-Found in all living things
-is like a manuel
-is responsible for inheritance
-Genes are units of this

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Genes

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A component of DNA.

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Classification System

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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

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Domains

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Archaea
Bacteria
Eukarya

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Archaea
Bacteria

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-most are unicelluar
-Most primitive
-simple
-Monerans
-Prokaryotic (no nucleus)

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Eukarya

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-more complex and advanced
-most are multicelluar
-Eukaryotic (nucleus)
4 kingdoms

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5 Kingdoms

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-Monera (Bacteria & Archaea)
-Protists (Amoeba)
-Fungi
-Plants
-Animal

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Biological Systems

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Combination of parts form a complex organizaiton or "System."

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The Celluar Basis of Life

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All organisms made of cells
-unicelluar organisms made of cells one celled organism where cells components perform all life functions
-Multicelluar organisms where speciallize cellls work together to perform life functions

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Order of Existance

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Cell-Tissue-Organ-Organ Systems-Organisms

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Form and Function

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"Form fits function"
-How something works is related to its structure.

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Reproduction & Inheritance

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An organism ability to reproduce organisms of there own kind.

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Interace w/ the Environment

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No organism is completely isolated form the environment
-Organisms conitually inerace w/ the environment

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Energy & Life

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-All organisms require "fuel to carry on life functions
-Fuels:Sugar, protein, fat

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Regulation

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-the ability of an organism to regulate their internal conditions
-Homeostasis

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Adaption

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An inherited trait that helps an organisms ablity to survive in the environment.

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Natural Selection

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Natural environmental conditions determine which trait will be advantageous.

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Variation

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Onganisms within the population are not exactly alike.
Give a population a better chance to survive in changing environmental conditions.

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Evolution

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A generation to generation change in the the proportion of different inherited genes in a population.

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Biology and Society

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The changes in everyday life caused by biology.

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Scientific Inquiry

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Ask questions about nature and then using obeservaitons or experiments to find possible answers.