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21 Cards in this Set
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Habitat |
Place where a plant or animal lives |
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Haploid cell |
One that has one set of chromosomes |
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Herbaceous plants |
Do not contain wood or lignin |
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Woody plants |
Do contain wood (lignin) |
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Herbivores |
Animals that feed exclusively on plants |
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Hereditary |
The passing on of features from parents to offspring by means of genes |
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Heterotrophic |
An organism that takes in food made by other organism cannot make its own food |
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Heterozygous |
Means that the alleles are different |
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Homeostasis |
The ability of an organism to maintain a constant internal environment |
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Homologous pair |
2 chromosomes that each have features for the same gene at the same position |
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Homozygous |
Two alleles that are the same |
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Hormone |
A chemical messenger produced by an endocrine gland and carried by the bloodstream to another part of the body where it has a specific effect |
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Hydrotropism |
A change in growth of a plant in response to water |
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Hypha |
A tube or filament in a fungus |
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Hypothesis |
An educated guess based on observations |
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Immobilized enzymes |
Are attached or fixed to each other or to another inert material |
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Immunity |
The ability to resist infections |
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Implantation |
The embedding of the fertilized egg into the lining of the uterus |
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Incomplete dominance |
Neither allele is dominant or recessive with respect to the other |
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Indiced immunity |
The ability to resist disease caused by specific pathogens by the production of antibodies |
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Infertility |
The inability to produce offspring |
