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20 Cards in this Set
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Ecosystem
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a community of organisms and their abiotic enviornment
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Biotic Factor
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an environmental factor that is associated with or results from the activities of living organisms.
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Abiotic Factor
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describes the non-living part of the environment, including water, rocks, light, and temperature.
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Organism
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a living thing; anything that can carry out life process independently.
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Species
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a group of organisms that can mate to produce fertile offspring.
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Population
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all of the members of the same species that live in the same place at the same time.
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Community
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a group of various species that live in the same place and interact with each other.
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Habitat
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the place an organism lives
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Natural Selection
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the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment.
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Evolution
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a change in the genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next.
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Adaption
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an inherited trait that increases an organisms chance of survival and reproduction in a certain enviornment.
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Artificial Selection
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the selective breeding of organisms by humans for specific desirable characteristics.
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Resistance
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in biology, the ability of an organism to tolerate a chemical or disease-causing agent.
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Archaebacteria
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a kingdom made up of prokaryotes that one distinguished from another prokaryotes by differences in their genetics and in make-up of their cell wall.
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Eubacteria
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in a traditional taxomic system, a kingdom made up of all prokaryotes except members of the kingdom Archaebacteria
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Fungus
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an organism who's cell have nuclei: rigid cell walls, no chlorophyll and that belongs to the kingdom fungi.
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Protist
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an organism that belongs to the kingdom Protista.
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Gymnosperm
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a woody vascular seed plant who's seeds aren't enclosed by an ovary or fruit.
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Invertebrate
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an animal that does not have a backbone.
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vertebrate
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an animal that does have a backbone.
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