vocab semester test
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| Regeneration | the ability of an organism to re-grow lost parts
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| Vertebrate | an animal that has a backbone
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| Invertebrate | an animal that does not have a backbone
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| Exoskeleton | a waxy, waterproof outer shell or outer skeleton that protects the animal and helps prevent the evaporation of water
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| Endoskeleton | an internal skeleton
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| Herbivore | a consumer that eats on plants
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| Carnivore | a consumer that eats only animals
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| Omnivore | a consumer that eats both plants and animals
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| Producer | an organism that can make its own food
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| Consumer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
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| Decomposer | an organism that breaks down chemicals from waste and dead organisms, and returns important materials to the soil and water
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| Classification | the process of grouping things based on their similarities
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| Heredity | the passing of traits from parents to offspring
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| Dominant | an allele whose trait always shows up in the organism (bully)
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| Recessive | an allele that is masked when a dominate allele is present (wimp)
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| Hybrid | an organism that has two different alleles for a trait (a mixture
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| Purebred | the offspring of many generations that have the same traits (BB, bb)
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| Probability | a number that describes how likely it is an event will occur
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| Genotype | an organism’s genetic makeup (Bb
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| Phenotype | an organism’s physical appearance, or visible traits (blond hair)
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| Adaption | a behavior or physical characteristic that allows an organism to survive or reproduce in its environment
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| Evolution | the gradual change in a species over time
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| Extinction | the disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
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| Virus | a tiny, nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell
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| Science | study of the natural world around us
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| Life Science | the study of living things
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| Botany | the study of plants
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| Ecology | the study of how organisms interact with their environment
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| Zoology | the study of animals
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| Photosynthesis | the process in which some organisms use water along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their own food
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| Mutation | a change in a gene or chromosomes
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| Cilia | the hairlike projections on the outside of cells that move in a wavelike manner
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| Phloem | the vascular tissue through which food moves in some plants
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| Xylem | the vascular tissue through which water and nutrients move in some plants
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| Transpiration | the process by which water is lost through a plant’s leaves
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