food web words Word Scramble
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biology word | definition |
analysis | interpretation of data |
biology | science that seek to understand the living world |
cellular respiration | releases energy by breaking down glucose and food molecules with oxygen present |
diffusion | when molecules move are moved through protein channels |
osmosis | movement of water according to the gradient |
photosynthesis | process inwhich autotrophs use light to convert water, co2, into energy compounds usable by the plant; glucose |
cell cycle | series of events that the cell goes through to grow and divide |
replication | copying process in which cell duplicates its |
heterozygous | organism that has two different alleles for one trait |
hybrid | offspring of crosses between parents of different traits |
incomplete dominance | situation in which one allele is not completely dominant over the other |
principle of independent assortment | alleles of different genes; usually segregated |
autotroph | an organism that makes its own food |
biodiversity | total of variety of organisms in the biospherean organism that obtains energy throught the consumation of other animals |
carnivore | an organism that obtains energy through the consumation of other animals |
commensalism | process in which one member is helped, the other is normal |
consumer | organisms that gains energy by consuming other organisms |
decomposer | organisms that gain energy through dead organisms |
food chain | series of steps in which energy is transformed by being consumed |
food web | complex interactions formed by feeding relationships between many organisms |
herbivore | organism that obtains energy by eating only plants |
heterotroph | organism that eats for energy; called a consumer |
limiting factor | factor that causes the growth of the population to decrease |
mutualism | when both organisms benefit from the relationship |
omnivore | eats bothe plants and animals for energy |
succession | a series of predictable changes overtime |
trophic level | a step in food chain or food web |
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