vocabulary review introduction to biology 1. study of life biology 2

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Introduction Introduction to Biologyto Biology

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Study of life

BIOLOGY

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High degree of internal & external

order in living things

ORGANIZATION

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Composed of only one cell

UNICELLULAR

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Composed of more than one

cell

MULTICELLULAR

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Smallest unit of life

CELL

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Group of specialized cells working together

TISSUE

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Tissues working together to do a job such as the heart or

lungs

ORGANS

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Tiny structures inside a cell that do different jobs

ORGANELLES

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Chemical compounds that

make up organelles

BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES

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An individual living thing

ORGANISM

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A physical or chemical change in the

environment an organism can respond

to

STIMULUS

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The response of the pupils of the eye when shown

a bright light

DILATION13

Stable internal conditions of an

organism

HOMEOSTASIS

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What would happen to an organism that

didn’t maintain homeostasis

DEATH15

Required by all living things to power their life

processes

ENERGY

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Sum of all the chemical reactions

in an organism

METABOLISM

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Process of capturing and storing light energy in the

bonds of sugars

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

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Increase in size of an organism

GROWTH

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Formation of new cells from

existing cells

CELL DIVISION

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The main change that follows cell

division in a unicellular organism

ENLARGEMENT

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Process by which an organism becomes a

mature adult

DEVELOPMENT

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Cells specializing by taking on

different shapes and functions

DIFFERENTIATION

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Organisms producing new organisms like

themselves

REPRODUCTION24

Reproduction of organisms must

occur for this to be true for a species

SURVIVAL

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Large molecule containing the

hereditary information of a

cell

DNA

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Instructions for a single trait on

DNA

GENE

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Reproduction that recombines hereditary information from two

organisms

SEXUAL

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Reproduction where the new individual is genetically identical

to the original

ASEXUAL29

The ability of a population of organisms to

change over long periods of time

EVOLUTION30

The variety of life that exists

DIVERSITY

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Three major divisions of all

life

DOMAINS

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Animalia, Plantae, and

Fungi are examples

KINGDOMS

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Organisms interacting with each other and

their environment

ECOLOGY34

Communities of living organisms

and their physical

environment

ECOSYSTEM35

Main byproduct of animals that

is used by plants

CARBON DIOXIDE

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Descent with modification

EVOLUTION

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Theory that organisms with favorable traits

are better able to survive

NATURAL SELECTION

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Traits that improve an individual’s

ability to survive and reproduceADAPTATIONS

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An organized approach used by scientists to learn how the natural

world works

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

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The act of perceiving the natural world

OBSERVATION

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Formed from observations to

propose an explanation for the way things work in the natural world

HYPOTHESIS

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Test of a hypothesis

EXPERIMENT

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Information gathered in an

experiment

DATA44

Provides a standard for

comparison in an experiment

CONTROL45

The one thing that a scientist allows to change in an

experiment

VARIABLE

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Highly tested, generally

accepted principle that explains

several observations

THEORY47

Scientific experts who critique

another scientist’s work

PEER REVIEW

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