Unit 1 Flashcards

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1
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The study of living things

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Biology

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2
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Living things can be studied on many

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Different levels

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3
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The levels where organisms can be studied on are

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Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism, groups of cells, cells, molecules.

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4
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Biotic

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Living thing

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5
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Abiotic

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Non living factors

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6
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Prokaryotic

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Cells that do not contain membrane bound organelles

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7
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Eukaryotic

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Cells that do contain membrane bound organelles

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9
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All living organisms need

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Energy

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10
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All living organisms

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Grow

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11
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All living organisms have a

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Genetic code

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12
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All living things

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Change over time

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13
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All living things

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Reproduce

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14
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All living things

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Respond to their environment

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15
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All living things maintain

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Homeostasis

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16
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Nutrition

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The life process by which an organism obtains and processes food

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17
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The process of getting food

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Ingestion

18
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The process of physically breaking down food

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Digestion

19
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Makes their own food

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Autotroph

20
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Depends on other organisms

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Heterotroph

21
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The life process that deals with circulation and absorption

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Transport

22
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Regulation

A

How your internal body responds to the external environment

23
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Respiration

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Releasing energy from food

24
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Reproduction

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Creating new organisms sexually or asexually

25
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Growth

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Increasing in size over time

26
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Synthesis

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Creating complex materials from simple substances

27
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Excretion

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The removal of cellular waste

28
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The science of naming and classifying organisms

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Taxonomy

29
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Animalia

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Human

30
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Tree

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Plantae

31
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Mushroom

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Fungi

32
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Amoeba

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Protista

33
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Bacteria

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Monera

35
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All living things are made of

A

One or more cells

36
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The creator of the binomial nomenclature system

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Carolus Linnaeus

37
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Binomial Nomenclature System

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E.g. Homo sapiens
Genus species
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