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| The Four Criteria for Life |
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- contain DNA
- have method to extract energy from the surroundings and convert it into energy that sustains them.
- can sense changes in their surroundings and respond to them.
- Reproduce
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| The sum total of all processes in an organism which convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy and matter to sustain the organism's life functions. |
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The sum total of all processes in an organism which use energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life.
Your body eats food and then breaks it down into simple chemicals to use it. Your body either burns those simple chemicals to produce energy or uses them to make larger chemicals. The process of making larger chemicals is anabolism. |
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The sum total of all processes in an organism which break down chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks.
Your body eats food and then breaks it down into simple chemicals to use it. Your body either burns those simple chemicals to produce energy or uses them to make larger chemicals. The process of burning these chemicals is Catabolism |
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| The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food. |
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| Organisms that eat only plants |
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Organisms that eat only organisms other than plants
(meat eaters) |
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Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms
(meat and plant eaters) |
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Producers
(classifying organisms) |
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| Organisms that produce their own food. |
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Consumers
(classifying organisms) |
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| Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers of food. |
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Decomposers
(classifying organisms) |
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Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
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Organisms that are able to make their own food
(producers) |
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Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food
(consumers and decomposers) |
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Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment
(our skin for example can tell if something is hard or soft, hot or cold) |
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| Reproduction accomplished by a single organism. |
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| Reproduction that requires two organisms |
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| The process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring. |
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| An abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of it parents. |
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| An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question. |
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| A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data. |
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| A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data. |
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| Living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye. |
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The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions.
(goo man) |
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| Biological Classification Scheme |
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Kingdom -> Phylum ->Class ->Order ->
Family ->Genus ->Species
King Philip Cried Out, "For Goodness Sake!" |
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A cell that has no distinct, membrane-bounded organelles
Organelles = a structure within a cell that performs a specific task. the membrane separates them from other types of cells keeping them distinct. |
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A cell with distinct, membrane-bounded organelles
Organelles = a structure within a cell that performs a specific task. the membrane separates them from other types of cells keeping them distinct. |
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A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units.
(if they can reproduce and their offspring can also reproduce they belong to the same species.) |
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| The science of classifying organisms |
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Naming an organism with its genus and species name
For example people are called Homo sapiens.
Homo = genus and sapiens = species. |
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