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an individual living thing, made up of one or more cells
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organism
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all the chemical reactions taking place within an organism
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metabolism
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close association between members of two or more species
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symbiosis
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descent of modern species of organisms from somewhat different ancestral species; change in the genepool of a population from generation to generation
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evolution
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differential reproduction among the various genotypes in a pupulation; enhances reproductive success
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natural selection
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the agent of natural selelction
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selective pressure
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process by which populations evolve to become suited to their environments over the course of generations
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adaptation
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involve orgranisms physical structure
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anatomical adaptation
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involve all of the internal workings of organisms body
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physiological adaptation
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a logical way of answering questions about cause and effect; observations, hypotheses, experimentation
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scientific method
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contain no real part of experiment
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control treatments
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contains part of experiment being looked at
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experimental treatment
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error due to using a relatively small number of subjects
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sampling error
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hypothesis supported by many different lines of evidence from repeated experiments
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theory
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reliable associations between 2 events
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correlations
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