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Chapter 1.1
Biology explores life from the global to the microscopic
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| biosphere | All the parts of the planet that are inhabited by living things; sum of all Earth's ecosystems |
| ecosystem | community of living things plus the nonliving features of the enviornoment that support them. |
| organism | living thing |
| cell | basic unit of living matter; separated from its environment by a plasma membrane |
| DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) | molecule responsible for inheritance; nucleic acid that contains the sugar deoxyribose |
| gene | unit of inherited information in DNA |