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The mating of close relatives
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Inbreeding
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A type of inheritance in which the phenotype of a heterozygote is intermediate between the phenotypes of the two types of homozygotes
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Incomplete dominance
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The interaction between a substrate molecule and the active site of an enzyme, which changes shape slightly to embrace the substrate and catalyze the reaction
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Induced fit
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The act of eating; the first main stage of food processing
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Ingestion
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An arthropod that usually has three body segments (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of legs, and one or two pairs of wings
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Insect
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One of the two fluid-filled internal compartments of the mitochondrion, the narrow region between the inner and outer membranes
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Intermembrane space
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The period in the eukaryotic cell cycle when the cell is not actually dividing
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Interphase
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Competition between populations of two or more species that require similar limited resources, may inhibit population growth and help structure communities
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Interspecific competition
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Any interaction between members of different species
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Interspecific interaction
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A shallow zone where the waters of an estuary or ocean meet land
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Intertidal zone
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Competition between individuals of the same species for a limited resource
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Intraspecific competition
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A species that humans move from the species' native location to a new geographic region; sometimes called an exotic species
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Introduced species
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In eukaryotes, a nonexpressed portion of a gene that is excised from the RNA transcript
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Intron
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An animal that lacks a backbone
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Invertibrate
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An atom or molecule that has gained or lost one more electrons, thus acquiring an electrical charge
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Ion
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An attraction between two ions with opposite electrical charges, the electrical attraction of the opposite chrges holds the molecules together
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Ionic bond
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Organic compounds with the same molecular formula but a different structure and thus different properties
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Isomers
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Having the same solute concentration as another solution
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Isotonic
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A variant form of an atom, contains the same number of protons and electrons but a different number of neutrons
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Isotope
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