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Introduction Introduction to Biologyto Biology
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Study of life
BIOLOGY
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High degree of internal & external
order in living things
ORGANIZATION
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Composed of only one cell
UNICELLULAR
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Composed of more than one
cell
MULTICELLULAR
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Smallest unit of life
CELL
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Group of specialized cells working together
TISSUE
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Tissues working together to do a job such as the heart or
lungs
ORGANS
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Tiny structures inside a cell that do different jobs
ORGANELLES
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Chemical compounds that
make up organelles
BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES
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An individual living thing
ORGANISM
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A physical or chemical change in the
environment an organism can respond
to
STIMULUS
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The response of the pupils of the eye when shown
a bright light
DILATION13
Stable internal conditions of an
organism
HOMEOSTASIS
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What would happen to an organism that
didn’t maintain homeostasis
DEATH15
Required by all living things to power their life
processes
ENERGY
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Sum of all the chemical reactions
in an organism
METABOLISM
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Process of capturing and storing light energy in the
bonds of sugars
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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Increase in size of an organism
GROWTH
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Formation of new cells from
existing cells
CELL DIVISION
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The main change that follows cell
division in a unicellular organism
ENLARGEMENT
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Process by which an organism becomes a
mature adult
DEVELOPMENT
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Cells specializing by taking on
different shapes and functions
DIFFERENTIATION
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Organisms producing new organisms like
themselves
REPRODUCTION24
Reproduction of organisms must
occur for this to be true for a species
SURVIVAL
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Large molecule containing the
hereditary information of a
cell
DNA
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Instructions for a single trait on
DNA
GENE
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Reproduction that recombines hereditary information from two
organisms
SEXUAL
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Reproduction where the new individual is genetically identical
to the original
ASEXUAL29
The ability of a population of organisms to
change over long periods of time
EVOLUTION30
The variety of life that exists
DIVERSITY
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Three major divisions of all
life
DOMAINS
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Animalia, Plantae, and
Fungi are examples
KINGDOMS
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Organisms interacting with each other and
their environment
ECOLOGY34
Communities of living organisms
and their physical
environment
ECOSYSTEM35
Main byproduct of animals that
is used by plants
CARBON DIOXIDE
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Descent with modification
EVOLUTION
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Theory that organisms with favorable traits
are better able to survive
NATURAL SELECTION
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Traits that improve an individual’s
ability to survive and reproduceADAPTATIONS
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An organized approach used by scientists to learn how the natural
world works
SCIENTIFIC METHOD
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The act of perceiving the natural world
OBSERVATION
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Formed from observations to
propose an explanation for the way things work in the natural world
HYPOTHESIS
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Test of a hypothesis
EXPERIMENT
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Information gathered in an
experiment
DATA44
Provides a standard for
comparison in an experiment
CONTROL45
The one thing that a scientist allows to change in an
experiment
VARIABLE
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Highly tested, generally
accepted principle that explains
several observations
THEORY47
Scientific experts who critique
another scientist’s work
PEER REVIEW
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