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adaptation
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evoltution structure, behavior, or internal process that enables an organism to respond to environmental factors and live to produce offspring
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biology
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the study of life that seeks to provide and understanding of the natural world
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development
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all of the changes that take place during the life of an organism
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energy
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the ability to cause change, organisms use energy to perform biological
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environment
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biotic and abiotic surroundings to which organism must constanly adjust
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evolution
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gradual change in a species through adaptations over time
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growth
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increase amount of living material and formation of new structures in aorganism
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homeostasis
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organism regulation of its internal environment to maintain conditions suitable for survial
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organism
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anything that possess all the characteristics of life
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organization
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orderly sturcture of cells in an organism;
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reporduction
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production of offspring by an organism
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response
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an organism response to a change in is internal or external environment
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species
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group of organism that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring in nature
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stimulas
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anything in an organism internal or external environment that causes the organism to react
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control
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in a experiment, the stanntard against which results are comprared
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data
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information obtained from experiments, sometimes called experimental results
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dependent variable
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in an experiment, the conditon that results from changes in the independent variable
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experiment
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procedure that tests a hypothesis by collecting information under controlled conditions
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hypothesis
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educated guess
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indepentdent variable
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in an experiment, the condition that is tested because it affects the outcome of the experiment
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saftey symbol
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symbol that warns you about danger
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scientific method
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method that scientist use to test experiments
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theory
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explantantion about nautral phenomen
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ethics
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the moral principles and values held by humans
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technology
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application of scientfic research
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