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Biotic

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Relating to or resulting from living things especially in their ecological relations. The preservation of biotic diversity

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Abiotic

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Physical rather than biological not derived from living organisms

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Equilibrium

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A state of rest or Equal balance due to equal action of opposing forces

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Ecosystem

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Organisms and their environment. Together independent organisms together with the environment that they inhabit and depend on

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Population density

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Measure of the intensity of land use, expressed as number of people per square kilometer or square mile

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Niche

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How An organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and how it in turn Alters those same fActors.

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Biodiversity

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The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem

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Nonrenewable resource

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A type of natural resource that cannot be replenished it takes time for nature to produce it replenish in order to sustain the rate of consumption

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Fossil fuel

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Natural fuel like pal or gas formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms

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Sustainability

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Ability to substantiate a statement. Ability to maintain or support an actively or process over the long term

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Natural selection

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The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

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Evolution

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The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of earth

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Competition

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A contest between organisms individuals or groups for territory a niche of a location of resources for goods mates recognition of social status.

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Adaptation

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a trait with a current functional role in an organism that is maintained and evolved by means of natural selection

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Homologous structures

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Having the same origin but different function. Wings of a bird/ fin of a fish

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Vestigial structure

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Refers to an legal or part which is greatly reduced from the original ancestral form and is no longer functional or is of reduced or altered function. Tenants of structures found in ancestral species

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Mutation

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A permanent change of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organisms virus or genetic element. Mutations result from in repaired damage to DNA or to that genome from insertion or deletion

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Species

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Largest group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding

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Variation

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Variation is brought about mutation it’s a change in difference in condition, amount of level. A difference or distinct form or version of something else

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Phenotype

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The set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment

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Genotype

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The genetic makeup of a cell or organism

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Chloroplasts

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Contains chlorophyll and photosynthesis is conducted

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mitochondria

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Respiration and energy production occurs

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Ribosome

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Proteins are made here

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Nucleus

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Contains fan and controls cell activity

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Diffusion

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Movement of a solute from high to low concentration

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Osmosis

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Diffusion of water

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Active transport

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Ions and molecules across a cell membrane assisted by enzymes and requiring energy

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Molecule

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Atoms bonded of ether, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction

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Protein

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A polymer of amino acids that makes up body tissues and enzymes

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Carbohydrate

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Organic compound such as sugar or glucose and used to store energy. Made of long chains of simple sugars or monosaccharides

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Lipid

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Organic compound such as fat or oil and made glycerol and of fatty acids they are used to store energy long time and used as padding

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Nucleic acids

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Made of nucleotides. DNA AND RNA contains instructions to make proteins

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ATP

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Energy is stored in chemical bonds between a toms in carbohydrates lipids and proteins. Stored in the form of atp. Glucose molecule can make about 36 atp

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Enzyme

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Made of proteins and used to speed up chemical reactions for example amylase and lactase

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Photosynthesis

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Light + 6Co2 + 6H20 = C6H1206+06

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Respiration

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Glucose+oxygen = carbon dioxide + water + ATP

C6H12O2+ 6O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O + 36 ATP

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Combustion

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Making heat energy by burning fossil fuels in one step

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Mitosis

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Cell division resulting in 2 identical daughter cells

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Allele

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One or more mutation of a gene found on the same place of the chromosomes

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Trait

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A quality or characteristic

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Homozygous

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A pair of two genes that control the same trait

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Heterozygous

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A pair of genes one is recessive one is dominant

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Diploid

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Containing 2 complete sets of chromosomes 1 from each parent

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Haploid

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Single set of unpaired chromosomes

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Meiosis

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Four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell

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Genetic recombination

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Production of offspring with combination of traits that differ from those found in either parent

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Fertilization

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Fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote . Fertilizing an egg

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Crossing over

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The exchange of gene in homologous chromosomes resulting in a mixture of characteristics in offspring

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Dominant

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Alleles in one gene . One which is expressed over a second

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Recessive

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When both alleles are the same so it overrides the past heritable characteristic

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Codominance

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The relationship that describes how dominant genes masks the recessive

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Incomplete dominance

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A new phenotype is made when one dominant allele doesn’t completely dominate the recessive

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Punnett square

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Diagram used to predict the outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment

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Limiting factor

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The environmental factor that limits the size of a population

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