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| Abiotic | Non-living parts of an ecosystem |
| adapt | to adjust to new conditions |
| adaptation | heritable characteristic that increases an organisms ability to survive and reproduce in an environment |
| antibiotic | medicine that inhibits the growth of or kills bacteria |
| antibiotic resistance | ability of microbes to grow in the presence of a chemical (drug) that would normally kill them or limit their growth. |
| asexual | reproduction in which one parent passes its genes to the offspring |
| bacterial infection | Diseases caused by bacteria |
| Biotic | Living parts of an ecosystem |
| carrying capacity | The number of living organisms an ecosystem can support |
| Cell | The basic unit of all life forms |
| Cell Membrane | Thin flexible barrier that surrounds all cells; regulates what enters and leaves the cell. |
| Cell Wall | Outermost structure of a plant cell. Provides structure and support for the cell. |
| characteristic | A feature or quality belonging to a person, place, or thing. |
| Chloroplast | The organelle in plant cells that convert sunlight into food. |
| community | A group of different organisms living in the same habitat |
| compound | substance made up of molecules that contain more than one kind of atom; two or more elements chemically combined |
| conclusion | A judgment or decision reached by reasoning |
| consumer | An organism that needs to eat to recieve energy. |
| contamination | Presnce of an unwanted substance in a material. |
| decomposer | Organisms that gets energy by breaking down dead or decaying organisms |
| DNA | A molecule that carries the genetic instructions for all living organisms |
| Ecosystem | All the living things in a given area interacting with their non-living environments |
| element | each of more than one hundred substances that cannot be broken down into simpler substances and make up all matter |
| external | Outside of an object |
| extinction | No longer existing or living |
| food chain | food and energy links between the different plants and animals in an ecosystem |
| food web | all the food chains in an ecosystem that are connected |
| fossil | preserved remains of ancient organisms |
| Function | work or operate in a proper or particular way |
| gene | Region of DNA that encodes for a specific trait |
| genetic modification | Changing an organisms genes |
| graduated cylinder | Laboratory equipment used to measure the volume of a liquid |
| Heredity | The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another |
| Host | organism that gives nutrition to a parasite |
| immune | resistant to a particular infection or toxin. |
| immunity | a biological term that describes a state of having sufficient biological defenses to avoid infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion. |
| internal | Inside of an object |
| Limiting Factor | an environmental variable that limits or slows the growth or activities of an organism |
| Meiosis | a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell |
| microorganism | An organism that can be seen only with the aid of a microscope and that typically consists of only a single cell |
| Mitosis | a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus |
| multicellular | an organism made up of many cells |
| organ | group of tissues that work together to perform closely related functions. |
| Organelle | tiny cell structure that carries out a specific function |
| Organism | an individual made up of organ systems |
| Parasite | an organism that lives off of a host for nutrition |
| photosynthesis | Process in which a plant makes food from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. |
| Population | All the organisms of a specific group or species that occur in a specified habitat |
| predator | An animal that kills and eats other animals for food |
| Prey | organism that is killed and eaten by another animal |
| producer | An organism that can make its own food |
| properties | characteristic of a substance that is observed during a reaction in which the chemical composition or identity of the substance is changed |
| relevance | the extent to which a source provides information you can use in your research writing project |
| single celled | Made up of only one cell |
| specialization | the adaptation of an organism or organ to a special function orenvironment |
| tissue | a group of cells that carry out a specific function |
| Trait | a feature of an organism |
| vaccine | A dead or weakened virus injected into the body to boost the immune system |
| Viral infection | Disease that is caused by a virus |
| virus | Small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms. |
| white blood cells | Cells that circulate in the blood and fight off infections. |
