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25 Cards in this Set
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Study of life
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Biology
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Any inherited structure, behavior, or internal process that enables an organism to respond to enviromental factors and live to produce offsprings
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Adaptation
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All of the changes that take place during the life of an organism
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Development
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The ability to cause change
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Energy
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Organisms live in a constant interface with their surroundings
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Enviroment
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The gradual change in a species through adaptations over time
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Evolution
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An increase in the amount of living material and the formation of new structures
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Growth
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Regulation of an organism's internal enviroment to maintain conditions suitable for its survival
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Homeostasis
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Anything that possesses all of the characteristics of life
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Organism
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orderly structure
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Organization
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Production of offspring
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Reproduction
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Reaction to a stimulis
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Response
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Group of organisims that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring in nature
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Species
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Anyhting in an organisms external or intermal enviroment that cause the organism to react
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Stimulus
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The part of an experiment that is the standard against which results are compared
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Control
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Information obtained from invesigatons
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Data
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An experiment, the condition that results from changes in the indepensent variable
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Dependent Variable
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An investigation thta tests a hypothesis by the process of collecting information under controlled conditions
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Experiment
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An explanation for a question or a problem that can be formally tested
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Hypothesis
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An experiment, the condition that is tested because it affects the outcome of the experiment
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Independent Variable
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A symbol that warns you about danger that may exist fomr chemicals, electrcity, heat or procedures you will use
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Saftey Symbol
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The common steps that biologists andother scientist use to gathe information and answer questions
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Scientific Methods
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An explanation of an natural phenomenon that is supported by a large body of scientifict evidence obtained from many diffrent investigations and observations
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Theory
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Refers to th emoral principals and vaules held by humans
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Ethics
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The application of scientific research o society's needs and problems
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Technology
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