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Cell

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A collection of living matter enclosed by a barrier that separates the cell from it’s surroundings

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Biology

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Science that seeks the understanding of the living world

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Stimulus

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A signal to which an organism responds

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Metric System

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A decimal system of measurements whose units are based on certain physical standards and are scaled on multiples of 10

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Microscope

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Devices that produce magnified images of structures that are too small to see with the unaided eye

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Compound light microscope

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Add lights to pass through the specimen and use two lenses to form an image

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Electron microscope

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Uses beams of electrons, rather than light to produce images

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Cell culture

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A cell that is able to develop from a single original cell to reproduce a group of cells

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Cell fractionation

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Technique that separates different cell parts

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