Biology Vocab

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Biotic

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Living

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Abiotic

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Nonliving

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Biodiversity

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The assortment of species on earth; within and between ecosystems; and the variation in the genetic composition of a species.

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Ecosystem

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A community of various organisms interacting with each other within a particular physical environment

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Biomes

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Regions with similar abiotic conditions

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Evidence

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Information used to support or refute a claim

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Consumer

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Organisms that must eat other organisms to obtain energy

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Ecology

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The study of how living organisms interact with each other and with their physical environment

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Hypotonic

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Moving out of the environment into the cell.low to high

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Hypertonic

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Out of the cell into the environment.high to low

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Isotonic

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Switching positions, but still staying equal

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Active Transport

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Low to high

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Passive Transport

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High to low

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Facilitated Diffusion

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Goes through proteins without protein

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Osmosis

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Transport of water and other molecules across a biological membrane

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Carrier Protein

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Carry proteins through

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Diffusion

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Two solutes diffuse from high to low until evened out

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Ion Channel

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Ions across ion channel

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Turgor Pressure

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Pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall of plant, bacteria, and fungi cells as well as those protist cell which have cell walls.

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Contractile Vacuole

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Is a sub-cellular structure involved in osmoregulation. It is found predominantly in protists and in unicellular algae.

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Equilibrium

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The condition of a system in which all competing influences are balanced, in a wide variety of contexts.

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Vesicle

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A supramolecular assembly of lipid molecules, like a cell membrane.

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Sodium Potassium Pump

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An antiporter-like enzyme (EC 3.6.3.9) located in the plasma membrane of all animal cells.

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Exocytosis

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Moves things out.

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Endocytosis

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Moves things in

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Pinocytosis

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Cell drinking

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Phagocytosis

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Out

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Concentration Gradient

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Thermal motion of all (liquid or gas) particles at temperatures above absolute zero.

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Plasmolysis

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Process in which cells lose water in a hypertonic solution.

Question 29

Cytolysis

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Occurs when a cell bursts due to an osmotic imbalance that has caused excess water to move into the cell.