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Unifying Themes In Biology Flashcards

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Living things can move from one place to another by walking, flying, swimming, gliding or jumping

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Motility/Locomotion

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Living things move for what reasons

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Food searching, process of reproduction and respond to environmental changes

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Living things need energy and raw materials to…

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Perform vital activities like growth, movement and reproduction

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Capturing light energy by plants and converting it to chemical energy (food)

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Photosynthesis

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Process wherein energy is released by breaking down the food substances

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Cellular respiration

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All the chemical processes that occur in the cells of all organisms

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Metabolism

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To power the organism’s life processes and provide them with raw materials to aid some processes which includes nutrient uptake, nutrient processing, excretion, respiration and photosynthesis, living things must…

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Metabolize

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Maintenance of body’s internal environment

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Homeostasis

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Maintain blood sugar level

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Glucagon and insulin

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Regulates temperature in the body

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Hypothalamus

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Increase in size and volume by converting food to become a part of body cells

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Growth

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Growth from within the cells

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Intussusception

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Complex process of cell differentiation and formation of new organs

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Organogenesis

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A series of changes in form and function that accompanies growth

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Development

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Development from head to toe

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Cephalo caultal development

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Development starting in the center and moving away from the body

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Proximo distal development

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Respond to conditions/changes in their environment

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Sensitivity/irritability

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Any condition or change in the environment that causes a response or tropism

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Stimulus

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Any inherited form, structure, function or behavior that promotes the likelihood of a species survival

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Adaptations

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Change in characteristics of group of organisms (population) over time

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Evolution

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Gradual or rapid change in body structure or behavior to be better suited and to survive in a new environment

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Evolutionary adaptation

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Capable of interbreeding and therefore, evolution

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Population

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Genetic information (DNA) is passed on from one generation to another as organisms produce offspring that resemble their parents

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Reproduction

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Requires only one parents and produces and offspring identical to the parent (ex. Binary fission in bacteria, budding in hydras)

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Asexual reproduction

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Requires two parents and produces offspring that are unidentical to the parent

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Sexual reproduction

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Three domains of the diversity of life

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Bacteria, archaea and eukarya

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Virus have no DNA, but instead they have…

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RNA (which is why they are not considered living things)

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Follow hierarchical level of biological organization each with emergent properties that arise through the interactions among smaller parts that alone do no exhibit such properties

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Living things display order/organization

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Smallest and most fundamental unit of matter; nucleus surrounded by electrons

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Atom

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Chemical structure consisting of at least two atoms held together by one/more chemical bonds

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Molecules

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Proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids

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Biomolecules

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Aggregates of biomolecules surrounded by membranes; small structures that exist within the cells; ex. Mitochondria, chloroplasts

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Organelles

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Smallest fundamental unit of structure and function in living organisms

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Cell

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Groups of similar cells carrying out similar or related functions

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Tissue

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Collections of tissues grouped together to perform a common function

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Organs

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Consists of functionally related organs

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Organ system

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Individual living entities

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Organism

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Same species/organisms living within a specific area

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Population

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Different species/organisms living within a specific area

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Community

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All living things in a particular area together with the non-living parts of that environment

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Ecosystem

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Collection of all ecosystems and represents the zone of life on earth; land, water and even the atmosphere to a certain extent

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Biosphere

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