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Animalia |
The kingdom that consists of multicellular eukaryotes that ingest other organisms |
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Archaea |
One of two prokaryotic domains, the other being bacteria |
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Bacteria |
One of the two prokaryotic domains, the other being Archaea |
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Bioinformatics |
Using computing power, software, and mathematical models to process and integrate biological information from large data sets |
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Biology |
The scientific study of life |
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Biosphere |
The entire portion of Earth inhabited by life; the sum of all of the planet's ecosystems |
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Cell |
Life's fundamental unit of structure and function |
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Community |
All the organisms that inhabit a particular area; an assemblage of populations of different species living close enough together for potential interaction |
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Controlled expirement |
An experiment in which an experimental group is compared to a control group that varies only in the factor being tested |
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Data |
Recorded observations |
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Deductive reasoning |
A type of logic in which specific results are predicted from a general premise |
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) |
A double-stranded, helical nucleic acid molecule capable of replicating and determining the inherited structure of a cell's proteins |
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Data |
Recorded observations |
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Discovery science |
The process of scientific inquiry that focuses of describing nature |
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Ecosystem |
All the organisms in a given area as well as the abiotic factors with which they interact; a community and it's physical environment |
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Emergent Properties |
New properties that emerge with each step upward in the hierarchy of life |
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Eukarya |
The domain that includes all eukaryotic organisms |
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Eukaryotic cell |
A type of cell with a membrane-enclosed nucleus and membrane-enclosed organelles, present in protists, plants, fungi, and animals; also called a eukaryote |
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Fungi |
The kingdom that includes organisms that absorb nutrients after decomposing organisms |
Mushrooms |
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Gene |
A discrete unit of hereditary information consisting of a specific nucleotide sequence in DNA (or RNA, in some viruses) |
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Gene |
A discrete unit of hereditary information consisting of a specific nucleotide sequence in DNA (or RNA, in some viruses) |
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