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21 Cards in this Set
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3 domains of life |
Bacteria, archaea, eukarya |
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Bacteria |
Prokaryotes, single-celled organism's, E. Coli, salmonella, B. Anthracis (anthrax) |
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Archaea |
Prokaryotes, single-celled organism's, live in extreme environments (boiling hot springs sulfur pools) |
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Eukarya |
Eukaryotic, some are single called (products and fungi) others are multicellular (plants, insects, humans) |
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5 unifying themes in biology |
1) organization 2) information 3) energy and matter 4) interactions 5) evolution |
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Organization |
New properties emerge it's excessive levels of biological organization |
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Information |
Life's processes involve the expression and the transmission of genetic information |
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Energy and matter |
Life requires the transfer and transformation of energy and matter |
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Interactions |
Organisms interact with other organisms and the physical environment |
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Evolution |
Accounts for the unity and diversity of life |
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Biology |
The study of living organisims, divided into many specialized fields that cover their morphology, physiology, anatomy, behavior, origin, and distribution. |
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Evolution |
The process by which different kinds of living organisims are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier does during the history of the earth |
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Emergent properties |
Property which a collection or complex has, but which the individual members do not have. |
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Bioshpere |
The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisims |
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Ecosystem |
Living and non-living |
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Communities |
Groups of living organisims |
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Population |
Specific groups of living organisims |
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Organisims |
Living thing |
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Tissues |
Any of the distinct types of material of which animals or plants are made, consisting od specialized cells and their products |
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Cell |
Smallest structural and functional unit of an organisim, typically microscopic and consisting od cytoplasm and a nucleus enclosed in a membrane |
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Organelles |
Any number of organized or specialized structures within a living cell |
