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Gamete
The term for sex cell, egg or sperm
Fertilization
The joining of male and female reproductive cells to produce a new organism
Biological evolution
The descent with modification of organisms from common ancestors.
Natural selection
The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully. (Survival of the fittest)
Adaptions
The inherited traits that increases an organisms chance of survival.
Parasitism
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it.
a, an–
Negative , not , or without
Example; abnormal , asexual
ase–
Enzyme;
Example; polymerase, lactase
auto;
Self
Example; automatic , autonomic
Bio–
Life
Example ; biology , biogenesis