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1st semester biology vocabuary

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What is Control Group?   show
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What is Dependent Variable?   show
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show A trait that all life forms must possess  
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What is Setae?   show
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show Sweating to help cool down body  
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show Example structures would be a bird wing and an insect wing  
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What is Superposition/Relative Age?   show
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show Mathematical analysis used to determine if population is evolving  
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What is Fitness?   show
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show Highest level of ecological organization  
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What is Restriction Enzyme?   show
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What is Recombinant DNA?   show
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What is Organization?   show
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What is Unicellular?   show
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show Many-celled organism  
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show Physical or chemical change in the internal or external environment  
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What is Development?   show
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What is Reproduction?   show
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show The condition that is changed be the experimenter (tested variable)  
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show Part of experiment that has tested variable (IV) applied  
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show Single-celled organisms with no nucleus and membrane bound organelles (bacteria)  
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show Organism made up of cells that have a membrane enclosed nucleus, many chromosomes (plants & fungi)  
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What is Autotroph?   show
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show Other-feeder; gets energy from eating other organisms  
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show Organism that uses sunlight to make carbs/energy (oxygen)  
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show One species eats all or parts of another species  
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What is Mutualism?   show
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What is Commensalism?   show
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show Part of symbiosis; one benefits and other is harmed  
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What is Fossil?   show
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What is Biogeography?   show
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show Closely related structure that is derived from an ancestral structure  
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show Structure reduced in size function and may have been complete in an organisms ancestor; are not used/important  
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show Relationships by ancestry among organisms  
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What is Embryology?   show
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show Moving to a county that is not native to you  
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What is Emigration?   show
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What is Symbiosis?   show
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show Unrestricted; “J-shaped” curve; implies unlimited resources; invasive species and bacteria  
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show Restricted; “S-shaped” curve; limited resources; has a carrying capacity  
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show Number of individuals the environment can support over a long period of time  
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What is Producer?   show
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What is Consumer?   show
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What is Scavenger?   show
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What is Herbivore?   show
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What is Carnivore?   show
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What is Detrivore?   show
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What is Decomposer?   show
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show Belief that changes occur slowly in the form of gradual steps; evolution proceeds at a steady pace  
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What is Punctuated Equilibrium?   show
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show Type of cloning vector  
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show Insertion of DNA= recombinant  
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What is Blunt End?   show
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What is VNTR?   show
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What is Hypothesis?   show
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show Something you find using your five senses  
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show The process of drawing a conclusion by applying clues to observations or hypotheses  
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What is Biology?   show
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show A source of usable power  
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show Traits changed to best fit their surroundings  
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What is Ecosystem?   show
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What is Biome?   show
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What is Community?   show
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What is Population?   show
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What is Domain?   show
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What is Organism   show
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show Non-living chemical and physical factors in the environment  
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show Living organisms  
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What is Habitat?   show
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What is Niche?   show
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show Taxonomic group whose members can interbreed  
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What is Energy Pyramid?   show
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What is Food Chain?   show
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show A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains  
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show The position an organism occupies on the food chain  
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show Pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon  
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What is Spinnerets?   show
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What is Proboscis?   show
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What is Antennae?   show
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What is Abdomen?   show
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What is Qualitative?   show
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What is Quantitative?   show
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show To shed periodically part or all of an outer covering  
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show Favorable changes experienced by an individual, either as regards himself or his relationship with his environment;a rearrangement in mental attitude  
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show A structural feature that aids in fitting a species to its particular environment  
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show Contains DNA and RNA  
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What is Biodiversity?   show
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What is Cellular Respiration?   show
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show A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form  
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show The number of copies of a allele divided by the number of copies of all alleles in a population  
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What is Gene Flow?   show
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What is Genetic Drift?   show
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show When natural selection favors a single phenotype and therefore allele frequency continuously shifts in one direction  
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What is Disruptive Selection?   show
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show A ratio stating the number of times a specific phenotype occurs in a population in a single generation  
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show The evolution of a biological species  
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show The full DNA sequence of an organism  
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show A technique used for the separation of DNA, RNA, or protein molecules using an electric field applied to a gel matrix  
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What is DNA Technology?   show
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show The shape that two linear strands of DNA assume when bonded together  
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