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| smelling an unknown chemical |
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| what microscope do we use |
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| compound light microscope |
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| procedure for looking at slides |
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| slide - object on slide - cover over object |
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| problem-solving technique used to investigate observations that can be made about living and nonliving things |
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| a prediction that can be tested |
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| regulation of an organism's internal, life-maintaining conditions despite changes in its environment |
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| theory that living things can come from nonliving things |
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| states that all organisms are made up of one or more cells, the cell is the basic unit of life, and all cells come from other cells |
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| green, chlorophyll-containing, plant-cell organelle that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into sugar |
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| rigid structure that encloses, supports, and protects the cells of plants, algae, fungi, and most bacteria. |
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| small structure on which cells make their own proteins |
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| organelles that package cellular materials and transport them within the cell or out of the cell |
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| cytoplasmic organelle that moces materials around in a cell and is made up of a complex series of folded membranes |
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| organelle that controls alll the activities of a cell and contains hereditary material made of proteins and DNA |
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| cell organelle that breaks down lipids and carbohydrates and releases energy |
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| an organelle in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells containing degradative enzymes enclosed in a membrane. |
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| smallest unit of a living thing that can perform the functions of life |
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| differences between animal and plant cells |
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plant- cell walls, large vacuole to store water
animal-not the stuff above |
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| contain hydrogen and carbon |
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| food-making process by which plants and many other producers use light energy to produce glucose and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water. |
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| series of chemical reactions used to release energy stored in food molecules |
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| a combination of substances in which the individual substances do not change or combine chemically but instead retain their own individual properties |
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| occurs when molecules of one substance are spread evenly throughout another substance |
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| movement of substances through a cell membrane without the use of cellular energy |
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| a type of passive transport in cells in which molecules move from areas where there aremore of them to areas where there are fewer of them |
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| a type of passive transport that occurs when water diffuses through a cell membrane |
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| energy-requiring process in which transport proteins bind with particles and move them through a cell membrane |
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| the study of how traits are inherited through the actions of alleles |
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| an organism's genetic makeup |
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| biological and chemical methods to change the arrangement of a gene's DNA to improve crop production, produce large volumes of medicine, and change how cells perform their normal functions |
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| a tool to predict the probability of certain traits in offspring that shows the different ways alleles can combine |
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| the passing of traits from parent to offspring |
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| an allele inherited on a sex chromosome |
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| describes an organism with two different alleles for a trait |
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| describes an organism with two alleles that are the same for a trait |
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| one or many-celled eukaryotic organism that can be plantlike, animallike, or funguslike |
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| any of a group of unicellular, multicellular, or syncytial spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter |
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| cilia, pseudopods,& flagellum |
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| molds, yeast, mushrooms, and toadstools |
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Asexual- cell division, producing genetically identical spores
Sexual- two different hyphae grow close together |
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| leaf of a fern that grows from the rhizome |
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| male reproductive organ inside the flower of an angiosperm |
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| in gymnosperms, the female reproductive part that produces eggs and food-storage tissues |
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| fern structures in which spores are produced |
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| series of events that results in the growth of a plant from a seed |
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| female reproductive organ that produces eggs and is located in the lower part of the body |
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| a type of reproduction in which two sex cells, usually an egg and a sperm, join to form a zygote, which will develop into a new organism with a unique identity |
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| a type of reproduction-fission, budding, and regeneration- in which a new organism is produced from one parent and had DNA identical to the parent organism |
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| an alternate form that a gene may have for a single trait |
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| outward physical appearance and behavior of an organism |
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| describes a trait that covers over, or dominates, another form of that trait |
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| form of asexual reproduction in which a new, genetically identical organism forms on the side of its parent |
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| regrowth of lost or destroyed parts or organs |
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| plant life cycle stage that begins when an egg is fertilized by a sperm |
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| plant life cycle stage that begins when cells in reproductive organs undergo meiosis and produce haploid cells |
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| waterproof reproductive cell of a fungus |
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| male reproductive organ inside the flower of an angiosperm |
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| female reproductive organ inside the flower on an angiosperm |
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| underground stem of a fern |
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| small structure produced by the male reproductive organs of a seed plant |
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| waxy, protective layer that covers the stems, leaves, and flowers of many plants and helps prevent water loss |
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gynosperm- not fruit protected
angiosperm- flowering plants protected by fruit |
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| the supportive and conductive tissue in plants, consisting of xylem and phloem |
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| vascular tissue that forms hollow vessels that transport substances other than sugar, throughout a plant |
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| vascular tissue hat forms tubes that transport dissolved sugar throughout a plant |
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monocot- 1 cotyledon, parallel leaf veins, petals in multiples of 3,scattered vascular bundles
dicot- 2 cotyledons, netlike leaves, petals by 4's and 5's, vascular bundles in a ring |
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| the nutritive tissue within seeds of flowering plants, surrounding and absorbed by the embryo |
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| role of wind in plant reproduction |
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| moves pollen to other plants, carries seeds to different locations to grow |
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| why is photosynthesis important |
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| photosynthesis - plants - herbivores - carnivores - humans |
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| what does photosynthesis remove from the environment |
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