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Marine Biology Module 2

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Metabolism   The process by which a living organism takes energy from its surroundings and uses it to sustain itself, develop, and grow.  
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Photosynthesis   The process by which an organism uses the energy from the sun to produce its own food  
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Autotroph   Organisms those are able to produce their own food  
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Heterotrophs   Organisms that cannot make their own food and must obtain it from other organisms  
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Respiration   The process by which food is converted into useable energy for life functions  
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Homeostatis   The tendency of living organisms to control or regulate changes in their internal environment.  
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Diffusion   The movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration  
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Osmosis   The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane.  
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Osmoconformer   An organism that allows its internal concentration of salts to change in order to match the external concentration of salts in the surrounding water.  
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Osmoregulator   An organism that regulates its internal concentration of salt  
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Poikilotherm   An organism whose body temperature changes with its surrounding environment  
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Ectotherm   An organism whose body temperature is controlled by its surrounding environment.  
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Homeotherm   An animal that maintains a controlled internal body temperature using its own heating and cooling mechanisms.  
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Endotherm   An animal whose internal body temperature is a result of internal sources of heat.  
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Asexual reproduction   Reproduction accomplished by a single organism  
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Sexual reproduction   Reproduction that involves the union of gametes from two organisms: a male and a female.  
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Binomial nomenclature   Identifying an organism by its genus and species name  
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5 criteria for life   Respiration, regulate internal enviroment, reproduce, respond to changes in surroundings and have DNA  
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Carbohydrates?   Carbohydrates, made from the elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, include simple sugars, glucose, and starches (chains of simple sugars along with other components).  
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Proteins   made from amino acids, part of tissue, hair, skin of marine animals, hormones, enzymes.  
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Lipids   energy storage  
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Neucleic acids   made of nucleotides. Form DNA  
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Organic compounds   Carbohydrates, Protiens, Lipids, and neuleic acids  
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Producers   Organisms that take the sun's rays and transform it into useable energy using photosynthesis  
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Chlorophyll   Pigment that absorbs the sun's rays and helps with photosynthesis  
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Adenosine triphospate   ATP for short, stores energy  
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Primary production   The production of extra energy (for hetertrophs)  
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Primary producers   Producers that undergo primary production  
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Cell   The basic unit of life  
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Plasma membrane   The outer wall of shell of a cell that separates the internal fluid from the enviroment  
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Organelles   Membrane bound specialized structures that perform specific duties within the cell  
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Prokaryotic/prokaryote   A cell that has a cell wall, but no organelles  
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Eukaryotic/eukaryote   A cell that has cellwall, plasma membrane and organelles  
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Chromosomes   A the structure that holds the cell's DNA  
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Nucleus   The "center" of the cell which has the DNA-weilding chromosomes. Controls the functions of the cell  
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Mitochondria   Powerhouses of the cell  
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Endoplasmic reticulum   Made of folded membranes, responsible for constrcution and transport of organic molecules  
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Golgi complex   Made of folded membranes, responsible for construction and transport of organic molecules  
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Vaculoes   Where food particles are stored and ingested  
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Chloroplasts   Found in photosynthesizing eukaryotic cells, provides site of phtosynthesis  
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Cell wall   Found in photosynthesizing eukaryotic cells, provides shape and support  
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Cilia   Hair-like structures used for movement  
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Levels of organization   From smallest to largest, systems such as atom to molecule etc...  
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Atom   Smalleststable uint of an element  
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Molecule   Two or more atoms bonded together, small chemical unit  
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Organelles   Molecules joined to together  
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Tissue   similar cells with a specific function  
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Organ   Tissues joined together  
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Organism   An individual system of cells (e.g. a human)  
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Population   Organisms grouped together in a common spot  
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Community   Population joined with other populations in the area  
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Ecosystem   A community and its surroundings  
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Central vacuole   Central vacuole fills up with water, causing turgor pressure  
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Chlordie cells   Specialized cells within a fish's gills that remove excess salt in an organism  
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Hereidty   The transfer of genetic information from one generation to the next  
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Daughter cells   The product of a single-celled organism reproducing by dividing itself into two.  
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Cell fission   The simple process of a single cell duplicating  
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Gametes   The cell produced when two separate cells join during sexual production  
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Germ tissue   The tissue that produces the gametes  
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Meiosis   The way by which germ tissue produces gametes  
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Diploid cell   A cell that have chromosomes in pairs  
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Haploid   reffered to as gametes, only have one pair of chromosomes  
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Ovaries   female gonads that produce eggs  
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Testes   male gonads that proudce sperm  
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Zygote   A fertilized egg and the genetic material  
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Placenta   A special structure in a mother, if her offspring develops inside of her, that transfers some nourishment to her offspring  
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Reproductive strategy   The way in which an organism reproduces  
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Species   A opulation of organism that have similar characterisitics and can interbreed with eachother  
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Reproductively isolated   When two species cannot interbreed with eachother  
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Genus   A group of very similar species  
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Taxonomy   The process of classifying an organism  
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