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20 Cards in this Set
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Biosphere
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All parts of the planet that are inhabited by living things.
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Ecosystem
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Community of living things in an area, also nonliving features of the environment that support the living community.
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Organisms
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Individual living things.
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Cells
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Life's basic units of structure and function.
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DNA
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The chemical responsible for inheritance.
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Genes
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Units of inherited information.
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Species
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Distinct form of life.
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Unicellular
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Entire bodies consist of a single cell.
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Prokaryotic Cells
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Cells without a nuclei.
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Eukaryotic Cells
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Contain nuclei that separate DNA from the rest of the cell.
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Multicelluar
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Organisms made of many cells.
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System
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Complex organization.
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Photosynthesis
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Process by which plants make food.
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Producers
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Photosynthetic organisms make the food in which the entire ecosystem depends.
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Consumers
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The animals and other organisms that eat the food made by the producers.
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Homeostasis
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Regulating their internal environment, despite changes in their external environment. (Body Temperature)
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Adaptation
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Inherited trait that helps an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its particular environment.
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Population
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A localized group of organisms belonging to the same species.
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Natural Selection
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Works by the natural environment "selecting" certain inherited traits.
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Evolution
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A generation-to-generation change in the proportion of different inherited genes in a population.
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