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Bio Exam 1
bio
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Zooxanthellae | allows coral to photosynthesize |
| Purse seine method | use big net that closes at the bottom to capture a school of fish |
| otter trawl | drag long net across bottom of sea to capture fish on sea floor |
| long line | long line with multiple hooks and bobbers |
| bycatch | fish that get caught but are unwanted |
| marine reserve | area where fishing is limited |
| skepticism | dont believe what people tell you |
| reproductability | any good experiment must be reproductable |
| halyphites | have genes that contain water but keep salt out |
| environment | circumstanes or conditions that surround an organism or group of organism; social and cultural conditions that affect an individual or community |
| environmental science | the systematic study of our environment and out place in it |
| sustainability | is a search for ecological stability and human progress that can last over the long term |
| sustainable development | meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
| epidemiology | study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems |
| theory | proposed explanations of how things work; based on observations; cumulative |
| statistics | mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation, or explanation, and presentation of data |
| salt marsh | type of marsh that is a transitional intertidal between land and salty or brackish water. it is dominated by halophytic herbaceous plants |
| system | a network of interdependent components and processes |
| state variable | store resources such as energy, matter, or water |
| flows | the pathways by which those resources move that flow into, through, and out of a system |
| homestasis | tendency to remain more or less stable and unchanging over time |
| lipids | store energy for cells and they provide the core of cell membranes and other structures |
| carbohydrates | store energy and usually consists of long chains of simple sugars like glucose |
| proteins | composed of amino acids folded into complex 3D shapes. Proteins provide structure for cells and are used for countless cell functions; help muscles |
| nucleotides | complex molecules made of a 5 carbon sugar, one or more phosphate groups, and a nitrogen containing base; extremely important as sources of energy within cells; also form long chains called nucleic acids |
| hydrophilic | love water |
| hydrophobic | afraid of water |
| kinetic energy | energy contained in moving objects |
| energy | ability to do work such as moving matter over a distance or causing a heat transfer between two objects at different temperatures |
| hydrologic cycle | path of water through our environment |
| biomass | living weight |
| speciation | the development of a new species |
| adaptation | the acquisition of traits that allow a species to survive in its environment |
| natural selection | process of better-selected individuals passing their traits to the next generation |
| ecological niche | both the role played by a species in a biological community and the total set of environmental factors that determine a species distribution |
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