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All things that are considered to have LIFE have

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Order
Reproduction 
Growth and development
Energy processing
Regulation
Response to the environment 
Evolutionary adaptation
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Life’s hierarchy of organization

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Biosphere
Ecosystem 
Community
Population
Organism
Organ system
Organ
Tissue
Cell
Organelle
Molecules
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Food chain

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A single line of organisms where each is preceded by something that it consumed and then followed by something that consumes it

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Good web

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Feeding interactions between organisms. They share resources and compete

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Cells

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Structural and functional units of life

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Prokaryotic cells

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Cells that were around before earth was inhabited. They are small and simple with no nucleus

Eg: bacteria,archaea,monera

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Eukaryotic cells

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Cells that evolved after prokaryotes and has a nucleus

Eg: plants, yeast,fungi, and animals

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DNA

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DNA is the genetic material of cells.

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Genes

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The units of inheritance

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3 domains

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Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya

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Evolution

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The process of change that has transformed life on earth from its earliest beginnings to the diversity of organisms living today

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Descents of modification

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Species living together today arose from a successor of ancestors that differed from them

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Natural selection

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A mechanism for evolution

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The order of classification of organisms

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Domain
Kingdom
Phyla 
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
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Scientific method

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A step by step method for testing ideas with observation

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List of the scientific method

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Observation
Questions
Hypothesis
Predictions
Test 
Results
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Qualitative observation

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Observation based on description eg: color

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Quantitative observation

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Observation based on number oval measurements that may be organized into tables and graphs eg: temperature

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Inductive reasoning

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Making observations then coming to conclusions

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Deductive reasoning

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A proposed explanation of what will happen

21
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Control group

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the group that doesn’t receive the variable being tested

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Independent variable

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What is being manipulated or tested (X axis)

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Dependent variable

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Depends on what’s being manipulated (y axis)

24
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Biology

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The scientific study of life

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