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Anabolism   The sum total of all processes in an organism which use energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life.  
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Catabolism   The sum total of all processes in an organism which break down chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks.  
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Photosynthesis   The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.  
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Herbivores   Organisms that eat only plants.  
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Carnivores   Organisms that eat only organisms other than plants.  
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Omnivores   Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.  
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Producers   Organisms that produce their own food.  
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Consumers   Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for food.  
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Decomposers   Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms.  
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Autotrophs   Organisms that are able to make their own food.  
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Heterotrophs   Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food.  
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Receptors   Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external enviroment.  
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Asexual reproduction   Reproduction accomplished by a single organism.  
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Sexual reproduction   Reproduction that requires two organisms.  
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Inheritance   The process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents)to the offspring.  
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Mutation   An abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of its parents.  
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hypothesis   An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.  
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Theory   A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data.  
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Scientific Law   A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data.  
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Microorganisms   Living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye.  
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Abiogenesis   The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions.  
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Biological classification system   Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Help you remember King Philip Cried Out, "For Goodness Sake!"  
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Prokaryotic Cell   A cell that has no distinct membrane-bounded organelles. These cells do not contain internal structures to perform specific tasks.  
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Eukaryotic cell   A cell with distinct, membrane-bounded organelles. These cells contain internal structures to perform specific tasks.  
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Kingdom (Monera)   contains all organisms that are comosed of either one prokaryotic cell or simple association of prokaryotic cell. Sample: Blue-green algae and bacteria  
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Kingdom (Protista)   Organisms that are composed of only one eukaryotic cell or a simple association of eukaryotic cells. Sample: Amoebae, paramecia and algae Bothe Monera and Protista make up the vast majority of life on earth.  
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Kingdom (Plantae)   composed mostly of autotrophs-organisms that produce their own food. Sample: multicelled organisms with eukaryoticcells. Sample: plant-trees, grass, flowering bushes, etc.  
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Kingdom (Animalia)   Contains multicellular organisms with eukaryotic cells-they are different from Kingdom Plantae because they are heterotrophs-depend on other organisms for food but are not decomposers. Sample: animals-grasshoppers,birds, cats, fish, snakes, etc.  
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Species   A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are rproductively isolated from other such units.  
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Taxonomy   The science of classifying organisms.  
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Binomial nomeclature   Naming an organism with its genus and species name.  
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Carrolus Linnaeus   The person who developed the classification system called the five-kingdom system in the 1700's.  
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Three-domain system   Classifies all living things into one of three large domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Euarya.  
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Eukarya domain   Contains all organisms with eukaryotic cells. Which in the 5 kingdom system would include: Protista, fungi, plantae, and Animalia.  
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Archae domain   The prokaryotic organisms that live in very extremem enviroments -boiling hot springs, salty lakes.  
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Bacteria domain   prokaryotic organisms that live in more normal enviroments.  
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Metabolism   The sum total of all processes in an organism which convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy and matter to sustain the organism's life functions.  
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Spontaneous generation   A hypothesis that life forms originate from nonliving things.  
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Organelles   Distinct structures within a eukaryotic cell which are necessary to perform individual tasks to complete the functions of life.  
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First criteria for life   All life forms contain deoxyribonucleic acid, which is called DNA.  
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Second criteria for life   All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from the surroundings and convert it into energy that sustains them.  
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Third criteria for life   All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and respond to those changes.  
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Forth criteria for life   All life forms reproduce.  
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