Science 2020 Flashcards

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Protist

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an organism that belongs to the kingdom Protista

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Heterotroph

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an organism that gets food by eating other organisms or their bike and that cannot be organic compounds from inorganic materials.

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Eukaryotic

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an organism made up of cells that have a nucleus enclosed by a membrane Eukaryotic include animals plants fungi but not an archaebacterial or eubacteria.

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decomposer

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an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients.

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parasite

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.organism that feeds in or on an organism of another species the host and that usually harms the host (the host) never benefits from the presence of the parasite.

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Host

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an organism from which a parasite takes food or shelter

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fungi

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A kingdom made up of nongreen, Eukaryotic organism that has had no means of movements reproduce by using spores and get food by breaking down substances in their surroundings and absorbing the nutrients.

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Spore

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a reproductive cell or multicellular cell structure that is resistant to stressful environmental conditions and that can develop into an adult without fusing with another cell.

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Lichen

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what does a mass of fungal and algal cells together .in a symbiotic relationship and that are usually found on rocks or trees

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Nonvascular plant

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the three groups of plants living words on Words and lasses that lack tissues and tree roots, stems, and leaves.

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vascular plant

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has specialized tissues that conduct materials from one part of the plant to another.

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Gymnosperm

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woody vascular seed plants whose seeds are not enclosed by an ovary or fruit.

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Angiosperm

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.a flowering plant that produces seeds within fruit

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photosynthesis

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the process by which plants algae and some bacteria use sunlight carbon dioxide and water to make food.

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Cellular respiration

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.I would stop using oxygen to reproduce energy from food.

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Tropism

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growth of all or part of an organism in response to an external stimulus such as light.

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Transpiration

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by which plants release water vapor into the air through stomata awesome the release of water vapor in the air by other organisms.

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Gravitropism

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plant girls also change in response to the direction of gravity.

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Phototropism

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a change in the direction of plant growth that is caused by light.

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Asexual Reproduction

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reproduction that does not involve the union of sex cells and in which one parent produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent.

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Xylem

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the type of tissue in vascular plants that provides support and conducts are flooded water and nutrients from the root that provides support and conducts are flooded water and nutrients from the roots.

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Phloem

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tissue that conducts food in vasculer plants