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Life/earth/space sci
Missouri GED On-Line, Science
Term | Meaning |
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organisms | living things |
ecosystems | a community of populations or organisms, together with the habitats and natural resources that affect the community |
environment | all of the living and nonliving things that affect an organism's life in some way |
cell | the basic building blocks of all life |
organic | a term that means carbon-carrying |
species | term refering to a group of organisms taht have the same number of cromosomes and look alike |
invertibrate | group animals without a backbone or skull |
vertibrate | group of animals with backbones |
migrate | to move from one place to another |
mutation | a change in genetic information within a cell |
genes | a strand of DNA that carries the information for a specific trait |
nucleus | part of the cell that controls it's activities |
stimulus | something in the environment that causes a living thing to change it's behavior |
DNA | molecule that holds all of the genetic information of an organism |
mitosis | process of cell division |
atmosphere | the blanket of air that surrounds the earth |
erosion | the natural movement of rock fragments due to gravity |
solar system | term used to describe a sun and the objects that orbit it (planets, moons, and asteroids) |
galaxy | a large group of stars |