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| Biogenesis | The theory that living things can be produced only from other living things. |
| Development | He changes living things undergo as they grow. |
| Homeostasis | An organism's adjustment to maintain stable conditions in itself, despite changes in its environment. |
| Stimulus | Anything an organism responds to, such as sound, light, heat, vibration, odor, movement, hunger, thirst, and so on. |
| Variable | In an experiment, the factor tested. |
| Fertilization | The joining together of the sperm and egg cell. |
| Adolescense | The period between childhood and adulthood |
| Genes | The basic units of heredity. |
| Heredity | The process by which parents pass characteristics on to there children. |
| Hormones | Chemicals that control certain functions of the body |
| Descriptive | Writing that creates a vivid picture for the reader to see |
| Narrative | Writing that uses narration to tell a story with a setting, characters, and a plot |
| Persuasive | Writing that asks the reader to agree with your opinions |
| Compare & Contrast | Writing that points out similarities and differences |
| Problem & Solution | Writing that identifies a problem and proposes how to "fix" it |
| Integers | The set of numbers…-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3… |
| Quadrants | In the coordinate plane, one of 4 parts into which the axes divide the plane. |
| Greatest Common Factor | The largest common factor of two numbers |
| Prime numbers | A number that has exactly two factors, itself and 1. |
| Composite Numbers | A number that has more than two factors |
| Barter | Trading of goods or services directly for other goods or services, without using money or any other similar unit of account or medium of exchange |
| Empire | A form of conglomerate state encompassing a geographical area or set of areas containing diverse peoples or ethnic groups and ruled by a single central government authority that is primarily identified with one dominant people or ethnic group |
| Monopoly | Literally, "single seller." A situation in which a single firm or individual produces and sells the entire output of some good or service available within a given market. |
| Entrepreneur | A person who detects a previously untapped opportunity to make substantial profits. |
| Interest rates | The price(s) of obtaining the temporary use of money that one borrows from someone else who actually owns it, normally expressed as a percentage of the amount borrowed per year |
