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| all the parts of the planet that are inhabited by living things; sum of all Earth's ecosystems |
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| community of living things plus the nonliving features of the environment that support them |
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| basic unit of living matter; separated from its environment by a plasma membrane |
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| deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA): |
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| molecule responsible for inheritance; nucleic acid that contains the sugar deoxyribose |
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| unit of inherited information in DNA |
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