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Homeostasis

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Maintenance of a stable level of internal conditions even though environmental conditions are constantly changing

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Biology

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Study of life

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Metabolism

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Organisms can carry on chemical reactions

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Unicellular

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Organisms made up of one cell

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Multicellular

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Organisms made up of more than one cell

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Cell differentiation

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Cells that start to specialize

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Levels of organization

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Organelles->Cells->tissues->organ->organ system->organism

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Characteristics of life

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Organisms respond to stimulus/metabolism/growth and development/reproduction/change over time/homeostasis

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Three domains

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Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes, Archaea

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Prokaryotes

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Single-called organism. Such as bacteria and cyanobacteria

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Eukaryotes

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Multicellular organisms

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Archaea

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Archaebacteria

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Ecosystem

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Communities of living species and their physical environment

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Natural selection

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Theory of evolution of where the ability of populations of organisms to change over time is important for survival in a changing world

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Adaptation

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Trait that improve an individual’s ability to survive and reproduce

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Scientific method

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An organized approach to learn how the natural world works

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Hypothesis

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A proposed explanation for the way a particular aspect of the natural world functions

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Prediction

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Statement that forecast what would happen in a test situation if the hypothesis were true

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Control group

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Provides a normal standard against which the biologist can compare results of the experimental group

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Constant

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The factor that stays the same

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Experimental group

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Identical to the control group but has an independant variable

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Dependent variable

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The factor that is affected by the independant variable

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Independant variable

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And an experiment, the factor that is deliberately manipulated

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Theory

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A set of related hypothesis is confirmed to be true many times and it can be explained a great amount of data

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