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Zoology |
Study of Animals |
animals |
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Botany |
Study of plants |
Plants |
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Ichthyology |
Study of fishes |
Fish |
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Anatomy |
Study of the structure of entire organisms and plants |
Structure |
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Cytology |
Study of the cells |
Cells |
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Ecology |
Study of interaction of organisms with the envi |
Relationships envi |
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Embryology |
Study of the development of an animal |
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Genetics |
Study of the mechanisms of transmission of traits from parent to offspring |
Trait transmission parent offspring |
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Histology |
Study of tissues |
Tissue |
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Molecular biology |
Study of subcellular details of structure and function |
Subcellular details |
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Parasitology |
Study of animals that live in or on other organisms in expense of the host |
parasites |
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Physiology |
Study of the function of organisms and their parts |
Function |
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Sytematics |
Study of the classification of and the evolutionary interrelationships among animal groups |
Evolutionary interrelationships |
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Entomology |
Study of insects |
Insect |
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Herpetology |
Study of amphibians and reptiles |
Amphibians reptiles |
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Ornithology |
Study of birds |
Birds |
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Protozoology |
Study of protozoa |
Protozoa |
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Evolutionary processes |
Organic Evolution |
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Organic Evolution |
Change in the genetic make up of populations of organisms over time. It is the source of animal diversity and it explains family relationships within animal groups. |
It explains fam relationships within animal groups |
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CHARLES DARWIN |
published convincing evidence of evolution in 1859 and proposed a mechanism that could explain evolutionary change. |
Evolution proposal |
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Karl von Linne |
BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE FOR PLANTS AND ANIMALS. COLLECTING AND CLASSIFYING PLANTS. |
COLLECTING AND CLASSIFYING PLANTS ; |
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Genus |
First part of two-part name. |
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Species |
Second part |
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Chemical changes and interactions |
Reactions |
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In living cells and tissues are responsible for activities |
Chemical reactions |
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Study of chem compounds and their reactions in the cells and fluids of living organisms which seeks ultimately to understand the chem phenomena we call life |
Biochemistry |
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Detailed chem aspects of life as in the case of DNA and rna |
Molecular biology |
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Occupies space and has mass |
Matter |
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4 kinds of physical state of matter |
Solid liquid gas plasma |
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Quantity of matter in any obj or body |
Mass |
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The attraction bet. The earth and that of any animal or other object on or near its surface |
Gravity |
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Value of force |
Weight |
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The volume relation to weight and of any object in reference to some standard |
Specific gravity |
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A body at rest tends to remain so, and one in motion tends to continue in motion |
Inertia |
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Keeps particles of the same kind together |
Cohesion |
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Those of diff kinds (keep particles) |
Adhesion |
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Cohesion of molecules at the surface of a body of water produces an elastic skin like effect |
Surface tension |
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Capacity to do work |
Energy |
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Ways to manifest energy |
Motion heat chemical change or reaction electric current light |
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Transmission of protons |
Light |
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Flow if impulses along the course of a nerve |
Electric current |
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An increase in temp. |
Heat |
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Kinetic energy |
Energy of motion |
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Energy of position |
Potential energy |
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Law of conservation of energy |
The total quantity of energy remains unchanged |
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Law of entropy |
Holds that heat is the end form if all energy transformations and that all forms of energy maybe entirely transformed into heat but that heat may never be transformed completely into the other forms |
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Randomized state of energy that is unavailable to do work |
Entropy |
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Ultramicroscopic structural units |
Cells |
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Cannot be broken into simpler form |
Elements |
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How many elements are recognized by chemists in nature? |
92 |
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How many of the elements are essential to life? |
25 |
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Essential to at least some organisms but only in very small wuantities |
Trace elements |
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Smallest unit having the physical and chemical properties if its element |
Atoms |
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Negatively chsrged |
Electrons |
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Positively chatged |
Protons |
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No electrical charge |
Neutron |
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Arbitrary number assigned to each atom |
Atomic weight |
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Those of any one element that differ in mass |
Isotopes |
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Octet rule |
Rule of eight |
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Octet rule or rule of eight |
Atoms tend to establish completely full outer energy levels |
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How rule of 8? |
Donating electrons and sharing electrons |
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Result: elements become charged and thus attracted to each other; forms ionic bonds |
Donating electrons |
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Forms covalent bonds |
Sharing electrons |
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Covalent bonding |
Non-polar bonds |
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Negatively charged electrons are likely to be NO CLOSER to one atom than the other therefore electrons are equally shared |
Covalent |
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Diatomic molecule |
Each sharing one pair of electrons |
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An atom or group of atoms that had positive or negative electric charge from losing or gaining one or more electrons |
Ion |
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An excess of electrons; negatively charged ion |
Anion |
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With a deficit; a positively charged ion |
Cation |
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A substance containing 2 or more elements |
Compound |
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2 most compound facts |
Contains 2 elements ; in living organisms, contains at least 3-4 elements |
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Combination of water with a chemical compound dissolved |
Solution |
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Any chem compound which will dissociate into ions in water |
Electrolyte |
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Any compound that releases H+ ions ( protons) when dissolved in water |
Acid |
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A compound that in solution releases OH-ione or accepts hydrogen ions |
Base or alkali |
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A mixture of fluid and fine droplets of another liquif |
Emulsion |
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Results when the particles are of intermediate size of too large to enter solution but too small to settle out |
Colloid |
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A random movement of microscopic particles suspended in liquids or gases |
Brownian movement |
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Higher to lowrr |
Diffusion |
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Diffusion of water |
Osmosis |
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Solvent = solute |
Isotonic |
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Hypertonic |
Solvent<solute |
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Solute<solvent |
Hypotonic |
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Giant molecules |
Macromolecules |
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A large molecule consisting of many identical or similar building blocks liked by bonds |
Polymers |
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Large molecule consisting of many identical or similar building blocks linked by bonds |
Monomers |
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Subunits that serve as building blocks for polymers |
Monomers |
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