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What is a stimulus?
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A drug that speed up the activity in the central nervous system-change in organism's environment that affects the activity of an organism.
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What are carbohydrates?
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A biochemical composed of one or more simple sugars bonded together used to store energy- group of compounds made of sugars.
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What is homosteosais?
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The maintenance of a stable internal environment.
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Heredity
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Transmission of characteristics from one generation to the next-passing of traits from parent to offspring.
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Cell
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Chemical activities of an organism necessary for life-A membrane covered structured that contains all of the materials necessary for life.
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Nucleic Acis
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Stores info. needed to build energy proteins made up of subunits called nucleotides.
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Consumers
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An organism that eats producers or other organisms for energy.
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Decomposers
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Organism that breaks down the nutrients of dead organisms or wastes for food.
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Phosopholipos
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A type of lipid molecule that forms much of a cells membrane.
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Metabolism
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Proteins that speed up certain chemical reactions.
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D.N.A.
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Acid, heridity material that controls all activities of a cell- molecule that provides instructions for making proteins.
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Producers
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Organism that can produce its own food usually by using the energy from sunlight to make sugar.
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Asexual reproduction
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reproduction in which a single parent produces offspring that are identical to the parent.
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Lipids
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Type of biochemical including fats, oils that does not disolve in water.
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Proteins
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Large molecule made up of amino acids.
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ATP
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Adensovive Triphosphate the molecule that provides energy for a cell's activity-energy in food is transferred to this molecule
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Sexual Reproduction
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Reproduction in which two parents are necessary to produce offspring that share characteristics of both parents.
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