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Flashcards by Abbie Hoerbert, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Abbie Hoerbert
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| cell structure & function | cells are small but highly organized. they contain specialized structures that carry out the cells life processes |
| matter, energy, and organization | living things have highly organized structures that must be maintained in their orderly state by constant supply of energy. |
| DNA | hereditary information in the form of a large molecule called deoxyribonucleic acid. |
| Genes | a segament of DNA that contains coding for a polypeptide or protein; a unit of hereditary information. |
| Observation | writing down things you see. |
| Theory | a broad and comprehensive statement of what is believed to be true, supported by cinsiderable experimental evidence resulting from many test. |
| Autotroph | an organism that uses energy to synthesize organic molecules from inorganic substance. |
| Ecology | the study of the relationship between organisms and their enviroment. |
| Hypothesis | a statement that can be tested experimentally. |
| Engineering | the art or science of making practical application of the knowledge of pure sciences, as physics or chemistry, as in the construction of engines, bridges, buildings, mines, ships, and chemical plants. |
| Heterotroph | an organism that obtains organic food molecules by eating other organisms or their by-products. |
| Evolution | all the changes that have formed life on earth. |
| Homeostasis | the stable internal cinditions of a living thing. |
| Natural selection | the process by which organisms with favorable varitaions reproduce at higher rates than those without such variations. |
| Interdependence | mutually relient on each other |
| Asexual reproduction | the production of offspring that does not involve the union of gametes. |
| sexual reproduction | the production of offspring from the combination of genetic material from two parent organisms. |
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