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21 Cards in this Set
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Adenosine Triphosphate |
ATP. released in cellular respiration |
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aesthetic justification |
reason for conservation. many people enjoy the outdoors, don't wanna live in a world without wilderness |
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amino acids |
building blocks of proteins, give cell structure |
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anthroogenic |
man-made(reservoirs, fracking operations, dams) |
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Atom |
smallest unit of matter |
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Biome |
terrestrial ecosystems divided into subcategories(tundra, rainforest, deserts) |
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Biosphere |
all ecosystems |
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Carbohydrate |
macronutrients, 1/3 ways the body obtains energy |
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cellular respiration |
process by which chemical energy (food) is broken down into ATP (energy) |
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Community |
sum of populations in an area |
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competition |
struggle between two or more organisms for the same resources in an environment |
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control group |
in an experiment; the group with no changes made to it |
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denature |
change of shape in a protein, leads to loss of protein function. can be caused by change in pH,temp and exposure |
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DNA |
self-replicating genetic material. |
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dependent variable |
variable by which we measure change (what we're trying to find out) |
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ecological justification |
we should protectthe environmental because doing so will protect both species that are beneficial to other as wellas other species and an ecological justification for conservation acknowledges the manyecosystem services that we derive from healthy ecosystems
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ecosystem |
all living things in a particular area, including the non living things(rain, nitrogen in the soil) |
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ecosystem service |
plant pollination, air and water purification (given by the earth) |
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electron |
subatomic particle, negatively charged |
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element |
substance that cannot be broken down to other substances by chemical reactions
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environment |
living and nonliving surroundings of organisms |
