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| All the parts of the planet that are inhabited by living things |
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| Building block of living things - basic unit of structure |
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| Cells that have a nucleus |
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Recorded obervations or bits of information
(with numbers - quantitative data)
(qualities from senses - qualitative data) |
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| suggested, TESTABLE answer to a well defiend scientific question |
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| Has one variable you are testing for |
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| Requires energy to move materials against the gradient,that is from low to hi |
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| Net movement of particles of a substance from where they are in HI concentration, to where they are in lo concentration |
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| Cell division that results in four haploid (n) daughter cells |
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the part of the cell that houses the cells genetic material (DNA) and directs activities of the cell
(Brain of cell) |
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Is composed of phospho- lipid bilayer and is porous - allowing substances in to and out of cell
Controls what comes in and out of cell |
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| Producer - can make its own food (like a plant) |
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Process by which plants make chemical energy (glucose) from sunlight and pigments in the presence of CO2 and H2O
carbon dioxide and water --> in the presence of sunlight and pigments = glucose and gives off O2
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| breaks the chemical bonds of food to provide energy - the products of photosynthesis become the reactants for cellular respiration |
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| The process of copying DNA molecules for cell division |
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| Process by with a sequence of nucleuic acids in RNA is used to direct the production of proteins |
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| Trait that shows up and masks the recessive trait always used with capital letter |
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| Building block of nucleic acid (Sugar, phosphate and nitrogen base) |
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| exhange of genetic material between hmologous chomosomes during prophase I of meiosis |
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| Enzyme that helps break down the DNA and RNA to allow for copying or translation |
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trait that is hidden or does not show up
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| or intermediate - where a blended trait shows up, that is Red plant X White plant yeilds a pink plant |
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| Neither allele is dominant over the other and both show up - like red and white cross yeilds both red and white hairs (roan color) not blended |
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| Traits that are located on the X or Y chromosome - show up more often in one sex than the other |
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| Sex Cell - like sperm or egg, has half the number of chromosomes (haploid) |
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| a variation of a particular inherited characteristic |
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Genetic make up of individual for a trait, like
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Physical trait - how the genes show up, like
brown hair |
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| Same gene for each allele - like AA or aa |
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| Breeding to a known homozygous recessive (aa) to see what offspring are produced |
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| Display of persons 46 chromosomes |
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| Two different alleles for same trait (Aa) |
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| Carries the recessive trait, but it does not show up in phenotype |
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| a trait or characteristic |
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| separation of populations due to geographic isolation (from flooding, earthquake, etc) |
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| evolution from a common ancestor that results in different species due to different environments |
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| change happens relatively quickly due to some change in environment - like the moths changing color due to pollution on trees |
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| determining age due to position in rock - fossil records |
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| determining age through study of radioactive material half-lifes |
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| all the genetic material in a population |
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unrelated structures that perform the same job
(ie fin or arm) |
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| change in a species over a long period of time |
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| when specific traits are artificially selected (like a farmer growing certain color plants) |
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| theory where the most fit organisms best adapted to their environment reproduce at a greater level and change the gene pool |
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