Campbell Biology101 Chapter 1 Biology: Exploring Life
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| Biology | The scientific study of life.
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| Biosphere | All of the environments on Earth that support life.
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| Ecosystem | Consists of all the organisms living in a particular area.
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| Community | An assemblage of all the organisms living together and potentially interacting in a particular area.
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| Population | A group of individuals belonging to one species and living in the same geographic area.
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| Organism | An individual living thing.
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| Organ system | A group of organs that work together in performing vital body functions.
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| Organ | Is made up of several different tissues, each made up of a group of similar cells that perform a specific function.
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| Tissues | An integrated group of cells with a common function, structure, or both.
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| Cell | Basic unit of life.
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| Organelle | A membrane enclosed structure that performs a specific function in a cell.
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| Molecule | A cluster of small chemical units called atoms held together by chemical bonds.
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| Emergent Properties | New properties that arise with each step upward i the hierarchy of life, owing to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases.
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| Prokaryotic cells | A type of cell lacking a membrane enclosed nucleus and other membrane enclosed organelles; found in the domains of Bacteria and Archaea.
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| Eukaryotic cell | A type of cell that has a membrane enclosed nucleus and other membrane enclosed organelles.
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| Systems Biology | The study of interactions among the parts.
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| Consumers | Are things that eat plants and other animals.
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| Producers | Plants that provide food for a typical ecosystem.
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| Genes | The units of inheritance that transmit information form parents to offspring.
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| Domains | Above the kingdom level; consists of Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.
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| Bacteria | One of two prokaryotic domains of life.
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| Archaea | One of two prokaryotic domains of life.
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| Eukarya | A domain that consists of four kingdoms; Protists, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia.
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| Evolution | Species living today are descendants of ancestral species.
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| Natural Selection | Population with varied inherited traits; elimination of individuals with certain traits reproduction of survivors.
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| Inductive Reasoning | This kind of reasoning derives generalizations from a large number of specific observations.
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| Hypothesis | A proposed explanation for a set of observations.
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| Deductive Reasoning | Logic flows from general premises tot he specific results we should expect if the premises are true.
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| Theory | Is broader in scope.
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| Controlled Experiment | Designed to compare an experimental group with a controlled group.
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| Technology | The application of scientific knowledge for a specific purpose.
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