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Science review

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Mold   a distinctive and typical style, form, or character.  
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Cast   fossil formed when an animal, plant, or other organism dies, its flesh decays and bones deteriorate due to chemical reactions  
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Carbon Film   an organism outline of a fossil  
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Trace Fossils   a fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal rather than of the animal itself.  
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Preserved Remains   a prehistoric organism or is slang for someone or something that is old and outdated  
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Catastrophic   very harmful or disastrous  
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Uniformitarianism   the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes  
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stratigraphy   the branch of geology concerned with the order and relative position of strata and their relationship to the geological time scale  
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law of superposition   each layer being younger than the one beneath it and older than the one above it  
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Relative Age   a guess on something/someone's age  
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Index Fossil   a fossil species that characterizes and is used to delimit a geological zone  
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Absolute Age   geologic age of a fossil, or a geologic event or structure expressed in units of time, usually years  
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Radiometric Dating   a method of dating geological or archeological specimens by determining the relative proportions of particular radioactive isotopes present in a sample  
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Halflife   the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate  
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Energy   Objects can have energy by virtue of their motion  
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Work   using a force to move an object a distance  
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Power   the rate (energy amount per time period) at which work is done or energy converted  
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Renewable Resource   that can or will be replenished naturally in the course of time  
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Nonrenewable Resource   a resource of economic value that cannot be readily replaced by natural means on a level equal to its consumption  
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Fossil Fuels   a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms  
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Combustion Power Plant   Somewhere where they control power  
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Disease   a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury  
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Infectious Disease   They're normally harmless or even helpful, but under certain conditions, some organisms may cause disease  
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Noninfectious Disease   a medical condition or disease that is not caused by infectious agents  
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Pathogen   a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease  
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Vector   how fast something is moving and in what direction it is moving  
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Host Cell   an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives  
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Replication   The process by which genetic material, a single-celled organism, or a virus reproduces or makes a copy of itself  
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Mutation   the changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA  
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Antibody   a blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen  
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Antiviral Drugs   a class of medication used specifically for treating viral infections  
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Vaccine   a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases  
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Antibiotics   a medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms  
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Toxins   an antigenic poison or venom of plant or animal origin, especially one produced by or derived from microorganisms and causing disease when present at low concentration in the body  
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Endospores   a resistant asexual spore that develops inside some bacteria cells  
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Epidemic   a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time  
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Pandemic   prevalent over a whole country or the world  
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Variation   any difference between cells, individual organisms, or groups of organisms of any species caused either by genetic differences  
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Natural Selection   the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring  
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Adaption   The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and structure of an organism to become more suited to an environment  
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Camouflage   hide or disguise the presence  
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Mimicry   the close external resemblance of an animal or plant (or part of one) to another animal, plant, or inanimate object  
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Comparative biology   The comparative approach also has numerous applications in human health  
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Homologous structure   an organ or bone that appears in different animals, underlining anatomical commonalities demonstrating descent from a common ancestor  
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Analogous structure   different species having the same function but have evolved separately, thus do not share common ancestor  
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Vestigial structure   A structure in an organism that has lost all or most of its original function in the course of evolution, such as human appendixes  
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Taxonomy   the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics  
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linnaean classification   plants and animals have traditionally been classified by the structure of their bodies  
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