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KIM Words Flashcards

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Ecology

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Scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment

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Experimenting

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Testing a hypothesis by making a lab

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Observing

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First step in an experiment

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Autotroph

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Creates it’s own food(producer)

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Heterotroph

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Eats other heterotrophs for food(consumer)

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Photosynthesis

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Process plants use to make glucose

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7
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Chemosynthesis

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Plants use chemical energy to produce carbohydrates

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Trophic level

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Shows the energy flow of food between organisms

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Biogeochemical

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Process by which chemical compounds are passed from one organism to another

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Denitrification

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Conversion of nitrogen into gas

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Nitrogen fixation

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Process if turning nitrogen gas into ammonia

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12
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Niche

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Full range if biological conditions in which an organism lives

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Abiotic

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Physical or nonliving factors that shape an ecosystem

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Biotic

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Biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem

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Succession

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Slow regular sequence of development in a community

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Eukaryotic

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An organism whose cell contains a nucleus

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Prokaryote

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Single celled organism lacking a nucleus

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Cell

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Collection of living matter enclosed by a barrier that separates the cell from it’s surroundings

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Organelle

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Specialized structure that preforms an important function in a cell

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20
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Phospholipid

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Main part of the lipid bilayer

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Permeable

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Allowing molecules to pass through

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Diffusion

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Process in which molecules move from an area of high to low concentration

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Osmosis

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Diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane

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Crenation

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Cell shrinks by osmosis water leaves cell

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Lysis

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Cell membrane bursts

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Turgid

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Swollen due to extra amounts of water

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Plasmolysis

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Cell membrane detaches from the cell wall

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Cell cycle

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Series of events cella go through to reproduce and divide

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Mitosis

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Part of cell division when the nucleus divides

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Multicellular

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more than one cell

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Unicellular

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One cell

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Respiration

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Process which organisms take in oxygen and turn it into energy

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Cloning

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Creating a genetically identical organism from DNA

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Genetics

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Scientific study of passing on traits

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Genotype

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Genetic part of an organisms specific trait

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Phenotype

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The genetic makeup of an organisms specific trait

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Heterozygous

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An organism that has two different alleles for a trait

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Homozygous

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An organism that has the same alleles for a trait

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Probability

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The chances of a certain outcome

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Monohybrid

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Only one trait is being crossed

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Dihybrid

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2 traits being crossed

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Segregation

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Separating the parents alleles

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Enzyme

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A protein that initiates a chemical reaction

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Gamete

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Sex cell

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Meiosis

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Cell division that produces 4 sex cells

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Synthesis

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Existing DNA is used as a template to make more DNA

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Replication

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Process that copies organisms DNA

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Transcription

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A complementary DNA strand is made using RNA polymerrase

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Translation

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The decoding of RNA into amino acids

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Transformation

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Change due to genes

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