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23 Cards in this Set
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Metabolism
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Is the combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials.
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Adaptation
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A trait that improves an individual's ability to survive in its environment and reproduce.
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Reproduction
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Producing/creating more of the same organism
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Autotroph
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An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
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Heterotroph
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An organism that eats producers or other heterotophs as its food source.
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Cell
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The smallest units considered alive. Cells can grow and reproduce. All living things are made up of cells.
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Prokaryotes
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Organisms that don't have a nucleus.
ex. Eubacteria and Archaebacteria |
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Eukaryotes
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Single celled or multicellular organisms that have a contains cells WITH a nucleus.
ex. Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia |
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Order Taxon groups
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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
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Archaebacteria
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Has cell walls without peptidoglycans. Perform photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Live everywhere and in harsh environments. prokaryotic.
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Eubacteria
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Has cell walls with peptidoglycans. Prokaryotic.
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Protista
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Eukaryotic organisms. Cell walls of cellulose, some have chloroplasts, some have no walls. Most are unicellular, some are colonial or multicellular.
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Fungi
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Eukaryotic organisms. Cell walls of chitin. Most are multicellular, some are unicellular. Hetertrophs.
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Plantae
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Eukaryotic organisms. Cell walls with chloroplasts. Multicellular. Autotrophs that perform photosynthesis.
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Animalia
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Eukaryotic organisms. No cell walls, no chloroplasts, multicellular, heterotrophs.
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How are species named?
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Named by Genus, Species. It is underlined or italicized.
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Trophic Levels
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A step on which the organism gets its nutrients.
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Carnivore
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Organism that eats only other heterotrophs.
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Omnivore
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Organism that eats both autotophs and heterotrophs.
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Producer
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Organism that produces its own food.
ex. plants and photosynthesis |
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Primary consumer
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The heterotroph (herbivore/omnivore) that eats the producers.
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Secondary consumer
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The heterotroph (omnivore/carnivore) that eats the heterotroph (herbivore/omnivore) that eats the producers.
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Herbivore
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Organism that only eats producers (ex. plants)
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