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15 Cards in this Set
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autotroph
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organism like plants that can make their own food
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biology
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the study of living things
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organism
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any living thing
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bio genesis
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idea that living thing come only from other living things
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metabolism
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Sum of the chemical processes that occur in an organism
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heterograph
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organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms
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homeostasis
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stable internal conditions of living things
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coacervate
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cell-like droplet formed from dissimilar substances
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spontaneous generation
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idea that living things could arise from nonliving things
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sampling
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examining a small part of a population to represent the entire population
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observations
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use of the senses to gather data
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inference
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conditions based on facts or data without direct observation
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microsphere
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droplet composed of organic molecules enclosed in a membrane
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scientific method
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method used to solve a problem or answer a question
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prediction
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telling what will happen when testing a hypothesis
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