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4 original facets to Scientific Inquiry   Quantitative Observation; Reasoning Deductively; Experimentation; Communicating Results;  
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When were there ONLY qualitative observations recorded by scientists?   Before 1600's  
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Santorio   1rst quantitative (measure of medicine)  
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Santorio's 1rst quantitative measurements   weight and temperature of "humors"  
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Humors   Combination of fluids determines a persons's health  
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Roger Bacon   Made process of obervation, hypothesis, experiment, seek independent verification of results, because ancient Greek Scientists (Aristotle) thought flies were formed spontaneously from rotten meat  
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Francis Bacon   falsified spontaneous generation  
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F. Bacon on Hypothesis   Must be fasifiable  
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Central Organization   Created Among Scientist in 17th century for truth by experiment rather than authority  
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Building Blocks of all organism structure and function   Cells  
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emergent prooerties   novel set of properties for each individual level of organization  
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closed systems (water cycle)   predictable path to their processes and completely contained  
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open systems(living things)   less predictable paths to their processes and is not completely contained  
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reductionist view   an attempt to understand the world we live in as a whole through a greater understanding of the observable components  
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Subsystems of an Atom   Protons, Neutrons, Electrons  
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creating a model   When new phenomenon is not understood it is useful to apply the known information (the evidence) to a conjectured explanation of how the phenomenon MIGHT work  
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Extremely useful in creation of Hypothesis   Model  
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Hypothesis   Guess about the outcome of the change to the systemof the phenomenon being studied  
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Patterns emerging and Leading to new outcomes while providing a starting point   Evolving  
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the outcome of the processes may always remain between boundaries and may even eventually settle to a particular outcome   equilibrium  
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any sort of true representation of the phenomenon and truest representations will involve not just components, but also processes   relational diagram  
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Scientific Inquiry includes both the studies of the:   world (observation) and investigation into processes  
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Relational diagrams   reveal relationships of time, space, matter, and/or energy.  
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spatial relationships   maps useful for determining the positions of components in a system, but reveal no information about process  
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Class Diagrams   relate components and their processes  
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flow chart   diagram showing energy relationships  
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timeline   temporal relationships represents how a component changes with time  
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state diagram   all of the components and their associated processes but arranges them into a time-oriented configuration that make it clear when each of the processes occur in relation to each other  
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Darwin's Scientific Method   A systematic approach to answering a research question  
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Darwin's Scientific Method Steps   observation, hypothesis, experiment, data, conclusion  
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2000-200 B.C   Early Science  
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A.D. 200-1200   Age of Theology  
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13th Century   Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas  
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16th Century   Francis Bacon, Nicklaus Copernicus  
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17th Century   Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Archbishop James Usher  
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Aristotle   Earth, Air, Fire, Water  
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Thomas Aquinas and Albertus Magnus   Natural truth=Nature; Revealed Truth=theology  
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Roger Bacon   reject religous dogma and look at the world  
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Francis Bacon   experimentalism is a way to verify and test all things  
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Galileo Galilei   Copenicus: Earth is round and revolves around sun...punished for these beliefs  
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Archbishop James Usher   Earth created in 4004 BC  
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Catarophism   Earth's Landscape is shaped by global catatrophes  
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Gradualism   Earth's geological features are a result of slow, continuous processes  
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Charles Lyell   gradualism expanded into uniformitarianism  
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geology   groundwork for Darwin's theory of evolution  
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John Ray   fossils were remnants of once living organisms  
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George Cuvier   catarophism  
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James Hutton   gradualsim  
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Characteristics indicating life   order, reproduction, growth, development, energy use, responce to environment and homeostasis  
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Homeostasis   stable internal environment is maintained within the body  
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Organisms maintain Homeostasis by   nutrients, wastes, temperature, immune system, reproductive cycles  
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countercurrent exchange system   opposite flow of adjacent fluids in oreder to maximize rates of transfer between two fluid systems  
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Set point violatin   triggers homeostatic responces in the body  
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possitive feedback loop   effector elicts a responce to a stumulus with exaggerations to stimulus  
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negative feedbacy look   effector elicts a response to a stimulus with removal of stimulus  
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endotherms   organisms that regulater their temperature internally, while ectotherms though their environment  
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3 major roles of digestive system   ingestion, digestion, absorption  
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Ingestion   intake of food  
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Digestion   breakdown of food  
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Absorption   uptake of small molecules from the digestive system into the bloodstream  
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Food travels   mouth-down esophagus, into the stomach, and through the small and large intestines before exiting the body  
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Mouth   Ingestion begins: teeth grind, toungue move food around and compact into bolus, slivary glands secrete the saliva with salvary amylase  
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Stomach   Swallowed food enters where it is stored and undergoes mechanical and chemical digestion. Lining liquifies the contents of the stomach by churning action  
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Sphincter   ring shaped muscle which prevents food from backing into the esophagus...regulates passage of food to small intestine  
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Small intestine   chemical digestion  
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Large Intestinve   materical not digested completely in small intestine  
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salivary amylase   breaks down smaller polysaccharides  
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parietal cells   in stomach wall, kills bacteria  
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chief cell   secrete pepsinogen  
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Pepsin   breaks down proteins  
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Parapodia   facilitates Gas Exchange in water  
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More oxygen Rich...Air or Water   Air  
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Animals with simple Body plans can rely on________to obtain oxygen and eliminate metabolic wastes   diffusion  
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More complex organisms with multiple cell layers cannot use diffusion because___________________!   Diffusion occurs too slow to enable an efficient transfer of molecules over several layers.  
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Also reffered to as respiration   Gas exchange  
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Warms and freshens the air as it enters the lungs   The nose  
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trachea   covered with cartilaginous rings, and serves as a passagway to the lungs  
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Bronchi   branches from trachea and branches into smaller tubes called bronchioles  
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alveoli   air sacs at the end of bronchioles  
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Alveoli are covered with_____ and serve as the site for_______   Capillaries and transferring oxygen to the blood  
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Mammal lungs operate as a   negative pressure system  
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epiglottis   flap of tissure that prevents food from entering the trachea  
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daphragm   works with rib muscles to expand the lungs during inhalation, and during exhalation makes the lungs cavity smaller (forcing air out)  
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Center of Circulatory System   Heart  
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Veins   carry blood to the heart  
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arteries   cary blood AWAY from the heart  
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Right Atrium   deoxygenated blood enters the heart here  
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Right ventricle   contractions send deoxigenated blood from the right atrium through here  
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Pumonary arteries   contractions send deoxigenated blood from the right atrium TO here then to the lungs  
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Oxygenated blood enters the heart from the the lungs into the   Left atrium  
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oxygenated blood is pumped from the left atrium into the   left ventricle  
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oxygenated blood is pumped through here then off to tissues in the body   Aorta  
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Superior Vena Cava and inferior vena cava   deliver deoxygenated blood from the body to the right atrium of the heart  
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Main function of excretory system   get rid of metabloic waste  
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contents of excretory system   skin, lungs, liver, urogenital system  
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Skin's performance in excretory system   remove water, salt urea, through sweat glands  
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Lungs function in excretory system   excrete CO2 and H2O  
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Liver function in excretory system   produce urea  
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Urogenital System function in excretory system   filter, store, and remove wastes  
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Kidneys   filter blood to produce urine  
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Travels down the ureter into the bladder   filtrate from kidney  
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flitrate exits the body through   the uretha  
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Many small filtration units that make up a kidney   nephron  
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nephron consists of   one long tubule an assosiated capillaries  
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Nervous system 2 main parts   brain and spinal cord  
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Peripheral Nervous System   sensory (input) and Motor (output)  
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Neuron components   cell body, dendrites, axon, myelin sheath, terminal branches, synaptic branches  
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2 major components of the nervous system are   central nervous system, peripher nervous system  
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central nervous system   brain and spinal cord  
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perpheral nervouse system   sensory and motor nerves  
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A neurons structure reflects   it's structure  
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Neurons 3 major classes are   sensory, interneurons, and motor  
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sensory   recieve signals from environment. Sences light, pressure, presence of chemicals  
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interneurons   link sensory and motor, sends impulses to different locations  
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motor   convey messages from central nervous system to effectors  
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effectors   the muscle that carries out messages  
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reflex   any quick automatic response to a stimulus  
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Functions of Human Brain   sensory interpretation, reflex actions, thought, coordination, memory, emotions, and linkage to other organ systems  
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3 major parts of the human brain   cerebrum, brain stem, cerebellum  
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medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain   Parts of human brain stem  
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diencephalon   thalamus and hypothalamus  
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thalamus and hypothalamus   control hunger, thirst, sexual response, and pleasure links to the endocrine system  
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cerebellum   responsible for coordination and control  
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cerebrum   associated with intellect  
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lobes of cerebrum   speech, senses, vision, hearing  
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limbic system   primitive part of brain  
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5 major sensory receptors   thermoreceptors, electoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, chemoreceptors, and photoreceptors  
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cells that convert stimuli into a change   sensory receptors  
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taxonomy   catagorizing the world  
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species   label of a particular type of organism  
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Carolus linneaus   created current naming system  
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genus   general term used to group living things  
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Linaean classification system   kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species  
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How many kingdoms are there?   5 (monera, protista, plants, animals, fungi)  
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Monera   1 celled prokaryotes  
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Protista   1 celled eukaryotes  
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plants   multicellular organisms that are photosynthetic  
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Animals   multicellular organisms take food in  
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Fungi   muticellular organisms that absorb food  
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Photosynthesis   process of conberting carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight into glucose adn oxygen  
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What plant cell organelle does photosynthesis occur in?   chloroplast  
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3 stages to series of reactions that comprise photosynthesis   absorption of sunlight, light reactions, and dark reactions  
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Chloroplasts   double membrane organelles within certain  
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Stroma   space inside the inner membrane c  
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thylakoids   saxk of membranous discs in the stoma  
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granum (granna)   stack(s) of thlakoids  
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Light reaction of photosynthesis occur where?   thylakoid membranes  
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dark reactions of photosynthesis occur where?   between the membranes (thylakoid space)  
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phosystems   pigment containing complexes able to absorb energy from sunlight  
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Chlorophyll   chemical compound within the photosystems that had the ability to store sunlight energy  
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Ultimate source of energy for photosynthesis   SUNLIGHT  
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ATP   hchemical reaction forming anoter energy when hydrogen idons exit through a protein in the thylkoid membrane  
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Microbes   bacteria and viruses  
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alive   bacteria  
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single celled living organisms   Bacteria  
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prokaryotes   Bacteria  
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