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| Homeostasis | The ability of an organism or cell to maintain equilibrium.
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| Photosynthesis | The chemical reaction in plants that occurs when sunlight is captured and converted to chemical energy.
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| Respiration | The opposite of photosynthesis.
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| Anaerobic Respiration | The breaking down of sugar and other organic compounds with the absence of oxygen.
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| Mitosis | The process in which the nucleus in plant and animal cells divides to form two new nuclei.
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| Meiosis | Chromosome pairs separate and are distributed into new sex cells.
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| Replication | The process when DNA copies itself.
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| Organic Chemical | A chemical that has carbon except CO2 and CO.
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| Inorganic Chemical | Any chemical that doesn't have carbon except CO2 and CO.
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| Species | A group of individuals having common characteristics.
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| Variation | A difference in structure from the same species.
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| Adaptation | The alteration of an organism so it has a better chance of survival.
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| Traits | A characteristic.
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| Fossils | Any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age.
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| Mold | A hollow form of a particular shape of something.
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| Cast | Something formed by a material being poured into it.
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| Relative Dating | Dating a fossil by which layer it lies in. The deeper the layer, the older the fossil.
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| Absolute Dating | Using the half-life of radioactive elements trapped in fossils to determine their age.
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| Gradualism | A theory that a species evolves over a slow and continuous time.
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| Punctuated Equilibria | A theory that new species evolve suddenly over relatively short periods of time and then evolve more slowly over longer periods of time.
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| Natural Selection | Traits that organisms have that enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures.
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| Over Production | Production in excess of need.
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| Petrification Of Fossils | Converting fossils into a stone.
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| Competition | The struggle between different organisms to meet their needs.
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| Osmosis | The diffusion between fluids.
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| Diffusion | The act of a substance moving from a higher concentrated area to a lower concentrated area.
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| Active And Passive Transport | Active transport is when energy is needed to allow a substance through the membrane of a cell. Passive transport is when no energy is needed to allow a substance through the membrane of a cell.
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| Enzyme | Proteins that are a biochemical catalyst produced by living cells.
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| Catalyst | A chemical that speeds up a chemical reaction.
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| Autotroph | Makes its own food-Producer
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| Heterotroph | Doesn't make its own food-Consumer
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| Decomposer | An organism that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances.
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| Genotype | The total number of genes transmitted from a parent to an offspring.
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| Phenotype | The appearance of an organism depending on the genotype.
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| Heterozygous | Having unsimiliar genes for any hereditary characteristic.
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| Homozygous | Having identical pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
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| Allele | Any form of a gene usually through mutation.
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| Probability | The chance that something will happen.
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| Genetic Code | The sequence of nucleotides in DNA or RNA that determine the specific amino acid sequence in the synthesis of proteins.
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| Chloroplast | Organelles that produce the cells food(glucose) using the sun.
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| Chlorophyll | The green coloring of leaves that is needed to produce carbohydrates during photosynthesis.
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| Phloem | Carries synthesized nutrients to all parts of a plant in vascular plants.
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| Xylem | Carries water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the plant in vascular plants.
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| Gymnosperm | A vascular plant that has seeds that aren't enclosed in the ovary.
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| Angiosperm | A plant that has its seeds enclosed in the ovary.
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| Germination | To start growing from a seed.
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| Cerebrum | The largest part of the brain that controls voluntary movements and mental actions.
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| Cerebellum | It coordinates voluntary movements, posture, and balance. It is located under the cerebrum.
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| Stimuli | Something that encourages an activity or process to begin, increase, or develop.
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| Vaccine | A preparation to that causes immunity to a specific disease.
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| Compound | Composed of two or more elements.
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| Homogeneous Mixture | A substance that has a uniform composition and properties.
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| Heterogeneous Mixture | A substance that doesn't have a uniform compostion and properties.
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| Viscosity | The property of a fluid that resists the force tending to cause the fluid to flow.
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| Boyle's Law | The inverse variation of the volume of gas with its pressure if the temperature and the number of particles are constant.
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| Charles Law | The direct proportion of the volume of gas to its temperature(kelvins)if the pressure and the number of particles of the gas are constant.
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| States Of Matter | Solid,liquid,gas,plasma,Boce-Einstein Condensate.
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| Condensation | The phase change in which a substance changes from a gas or vapor to a liquid.
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| Melting | The phase change in which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid.
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| Vaporization | The phase change in which a substance changes from a liquid to a gas.
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| Deposition | The phase change in which a substance changes from a gas or vapor to a solid without first changing to a liquid.
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| Sublimation | The phase change in which a substance changes from a solid to a gas or vapor without first changing into a liquid.
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| Momentum | The product of an object's mass and velocity.
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| Inertia | The tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion.
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| Equilibrium | A state in which the forward and reverse paths of a physical or chemical change take place at the same rate.
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| Newton's Laws | 1. An object will stay in motion or at rest unless it is acted upon by an unbalanced force.2. Force equals mass times acceleration.
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| Ionization | The process by which neutral molecules gain or lose electrons.
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| Flagella | A long, lashlike appendage serving as an organ of locomotion in protozoa, sperm cells, etc.
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| Antibiotic Resistance | The ability of a microorganism to produce a protein that disables or prevents transport of the antibiotic into the cell.
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