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| Abiotic factor | Nonliving environment: water, sunlight, oxygen |
| Adaptation | Any characteristic that helps an organism to survive in a harsh environment |
| Adenine | Nitrogenous base that bonds to thymine in DNA or Uracil in RNA |
| ATP | Energy for cells : Made during cellular respiration |
| Amino acid | Building block of a protein |
| Antibody | Made by the body in response to an antigen: neutralizes antigen |
| Antigen | Any substance that is recognized as being an invader to the body |
| Autotroph | A producer: Makes its own food |
| Biocide | Any type of pesticide or herbicide used to kill pests |
| Biological Controls | Using a natural parasite to kill an unwanted pest |
| Biomass | The total amount of mass of living material present: Producers are always most. |
| Biosphere | Anywhere on earth that life can be found |
| Biotic factors | All the living organisms in an ecosystem |
| Carbohydrates | Examples include sugar, starch and cellulose |
| Carivore | Top of the food pyramid: contains the least biomass |
| Cell Wall | Found only in plants: Gives plants box like shape |
| Chloroplasts | Site of photosynthesis in plants |
| Mutation | Any change in the structure of the DNA: Usually has negative effect |
| Cilia | Small hairlike structures used by cell for movement |
| Climax community | The organisms that live in an ecosystem that is at the last stage of succession |
| Cloning | Taking the nucleus of the egg out and replacing it with DNA from body cell: Asexual Reproduction |
| Community | All the organisms living in an ecosystem |
| Competition | Organisms of different species trying to use same limited resouces (food) |
| Consumer | Any heterotrophic organism |
| Cross-Pollination | Sexul Reproduction in plants: One plants fertilizes a different plant |
| Crossing-over | Allows for exchange of genes between sections of homologous chromosomes: =Variation |
| Cytoplasm | Jelly-like substance that all cell organelles sit in |
| Daughter cell | Any cell resulting from mitotic cell division |
| Decomposer | Gets nutrition from dead or decaying matter: Recycles materials |
| Diabetes | Disease in which insulin is not made properly |
| Differentiation | Specialization of cells early on in development |
| Diffusion | Movement from where theres a lot to a little |
| Disaccharide | Two simple sugars combined |
| Dominant allele | The gene that gets expressed |
| Ecology | Study of interactions between living and nonliving environment |
| Ecosystem | Plant, animals community in interaction with abiotic environment |
| Endocrine system | System of glands that produce hormones and help regulate body |
| Emzyme | Protein substances that controls metabolism in the body |
| Estrogen | Female hormone produced by ovary |
| Evolution | Any change in an organism over time |
| Excretion | Removal of metabolic wastes from body |
| Exploitation of Species | Removal of species from environment for economic gain |
| External development | Organism develops in an egg outside mom's body |
| External fertilization | Egg and sperm fuse outside mom's body |
| Fauna | Animals living in an area |
