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Hydrogen Bonding

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  • Oxygen and hydrogen atoms in H2O have polar covalent bonds
    • Oxygen= more electronegative than Hydrogen (positive)
      • Due to unequal sharing of electrons
  • Hydrogen’s positive atoms are attracted to negative oxygen atoms of other water–> Hydrogen
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Cohesion

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  • Water molecules stick together due to hydrogen bonding

- Helpful when fighting gravity to transport water through plants

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Adhesion

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  • Water molecules being attracted to the cell walls in things such as plants
    • Helpful when fighting gravity to transport water through plants
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Surface Tension

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  • Water molecules are hydrogen bonded to each other, but not the air above
    • Makes it very difficult to stretch or break water droplets
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Moderation of Temperature by Water

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-Absorbing heat from air that is warmer, releasing the stored heat into air that is cooler

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Kinetic Energy

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-The energy of motion

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Temperature

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-AVERAGE KE of molecules in a body of matter, independent of volume

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Thermal Energy

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  • KE associated w/ random movement of atoms or molecules
  • Total kinetic energy, dependent on volume
  • When transferred from one body of matter to another= heat
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Calorie

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  • cal

- The amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1 g of water 1 degree C

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Kilocalorie

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  • 1,000 calories

- Quantity of heat required to raise 1 kg of water by 1 degree C

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Water’s High Specific Heat

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  • Water’s specific heat= 1 Calorie
  • Water’s high specific heat makes it change temperature less than other substances
  • Traced back to hydrogen bonds
    • Heat absorbed= hydrogen bonds break
    • Heat lost= hydrogen bonds form
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Specific Heat

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  • How well a substance resists changing its temp when it absorbs or releases heat
  • The amount of heat that must be absorbed or lost for 1g of that substance to change its temp by 1 degree C
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Evaporative Cooling

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  • As a liquid evaporates, the surface of that liquid that remains cools down
    • Happens because the molecules w/ the greatest KE leave (hottest ones)
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Heat of Vaporization

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-The quantity of heat a liquid must absorb for 1 g of it to be converted from a liquid to a gaseous state

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Emergent Properties of Water

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  1. Moderation of Temperature
  2. Cohesion
  3. Floating Ice on Liquid Water
  4. Water as a solvent for life
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Floating Ice on Liquid Water

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  • Ice (solid)= less dense than its liquid form, water
  • Water molecules expand instead of contracting when frozen
  • Water freezes because molecules are moving too slowly to break hydrogen bonds
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Water as a Solvent

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  • Water= a good solvent because of hydrogen bonds
  • Ex: When dissolving salt, hydrogen cations are attracted to chloride anions and oxygen anions are attracted to sodium cations
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Solution

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-A liquid that is a completely homogeneous mixture of two or more substances

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Solvent

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  • The dissolving agent of a solution

- Ex: water

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Solute

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-The substance that is dissolving

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Aqueous Solution

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-Solution where solvent= water

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Hydration Shell

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-The sphere of water molecules around each dissolved ion

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Hydrophilic Substances

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-Any substance that likes water, will SOMETIMES dissolve

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Hydrophobic Substances

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  • Nonionic/nonpolar substances (can’t create hydrogen bonds), repel water
  • Ex: Vegetable oil
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Molecular Mass

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-The sum of all the masses of the atoms in a molecule

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Mole (mol)

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  • 6.02x10^23
  • Avagadro’s number
  • 1 mole= 1 dalton
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Molarity

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-The number of moles of solute per liter of solution

Equation: A x B= C x D

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When a water molecule loses a proton/ hydrogen ion, what happens?

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  • A hydroxide ion is made (OH-)

- OH- is basic

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What happens when a water molecule gains an extra proton/hydrogen ion?

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  • Hydronium ion (H3O+) is made

- Also known simply as H+, acidic

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PH scale

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-Less than 7= acidic
-More than 7= basic
=7 is neutral
-Ex: Water

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Organic Chemistry

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  • The study of carbon compounds

- Range from simple to complex

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Abiotic Synthesis

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  • Organic compounds arising from nonliving things
    • Thought to be an early stage in the origins of life
  • Demonstrated by Stanley Miller and Harold Ureg’s experiments
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Spontaneous Generation

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-Living organisms come from non-living organisms

Ex: Maggots from meat, come from rotten meat, but really came from flies

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Carbon’s Emergent Properties

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  • Can form diverse molecules by bonding to four other atoms
    • Due to carbon’s four valence electrons, creates single or double covalent bonds
    • Simple or large, complex moleculed
    • Variation in carbon skeletons is one important source of molecular complexity and diversity that characterizes living matter
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Hydrocarbons

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  • Organic molecules consisting of only hydrogen and carbon
  • Hydrophobic
  • Undergo reactions that release a relatively large amount of energy
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Isomers

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  • Compounds that have the same number of atoms of the same elements, but different structures
    • Leads to different properties
  • 3 Types: Structural, cis-trans, enantiomers
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Structural Isomers

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  • Differ in the covalent arrangements of their atoms

- May also differ in the location of their double bonds

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Cis-Trans Isomers

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  • Carbons have covalent bonds to the same atoms, but atoms differ in spatial arrangements due to double bonded carbons
    • Cis= same side of DB
  • Trans= opposite side DB
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Enantiomers

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  • Isomers that are mirror images of each other due to asymmetrical carbon
  • Left handed vs right handed version of molecule
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Functional Groups

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  • Chemical groups involved directly in chemical reactions
    • Each has certain properties such as shape and charge, which cause it to participate in chemical reactions in a characteristic way
  • 7 groups:
    • Hydroxyl
    • Carbonyl
    • Carboxyl
    • Amino
    • Phosphate
    • Methyl
    • Sulfhydrl
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Hydroxyl

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  • Written (-OH)
  • Polar due to electronegative oxygen
  • Forms hydrogen bonds with water
  • Compound name: alcohol
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Carbonyl

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  • Written (C=O)
  • Sugars with ketone groups called ketoses
  • Those with aldehydes are called aldoses
  • Compound name: Ketone or aldehyde
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Carboxyl

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  • Written (-COOH)
  • Acts as an acid
  • Compound name: Carboxylic acid, or organic acid
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Amino

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  • Written (-NH2)
  • Acts as a base
  • Compound name: Amine
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Phosphate

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  • Written (-OPO3^2-)
  • Contributes to negative charge
  • When attached, confers on a molecule the ability to react with water, releasing energy
  • Compound name: Organic phosphate
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Methyl

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  • Written (-CH3)
  • Affects the expression of genes and shape and function of sex hormones
  • Compound name: Methylated compound
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Sulfhydryl

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  • Written (-SH)
  • Two SH groups can react, forming a “crosslink” that helps stabilize protein structure”
  • Compound name: Thiol
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Adenosine Triphospahte (ATP)

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  • Important organic phosphate
  • Consists of organic molecule adenosine attached to a string of three phosphate groups
  • Stores potential to react w/ water
    • Releases energy that can be used by the cell
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Evolution

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  • The process of change over time that has resulted in the astounding array of organisms found on Earth
  • Adaptations are the result of this
  • Accounts for unity and diversity of life
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Biology

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-The scientific study of life

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Properties of Life

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  • Order
  • Energy Processing
  • Evolutionary Adaptation
  • Regulation
  • Growth and Development
  • Response to environment
  • Reproduction
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Reductionism

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  • Method that reduces complex systems to simpler components that are more manageable to study
    • Provides an incomplete view of life on Earth
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Levels of Organization

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  1. Biosphere
  2. Ecosystems
  3. Communities
  4. Populations
  5. Organisms
  6. Organs
  7. Tissues
  8. Cells
  9. Organelles
  10. Molecules
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Biosphere

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  1. All life on Earth and all the places where life exists
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Ecosystems

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  1. All living things in a particular area, along with all the non-living components of the environment which life interacts, such as soil, water, atmospheric gases, and light
    Ex: North American meadow in the mountains
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Communities

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  1. The array of organisms inhabiting a particular ecosystem
    - Group of populations
    - Ex: In the meadow are different plants, animals, mushrooms, microorganisms
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Populations

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  1. All the individual species living within the bounds of a specific area
    Ex: The meadow has a population of dandelions
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Organism

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  1. Individual living things

Ex: A single dandelion in a population of dandelions

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Organs

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  1. A body part made up of multiple tissues w/ a specific function
    Ex: heart, lungs
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Tissues

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  1. A group of cells w/ specialized function

Ex: cardiovascular tissue

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Cells

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  1. Smallest , fundamental unit of structure and function
    - Types of cells: Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic
    - Cell theory: all living organisms are made of cells
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Organelles

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  1. The various functional components present in cells

Ex: Chloroplast

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Molecules

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  1. A chemical structure consisting of two or more atoms

Ex: Chlorophyll in chloroplast

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Emergent Properties

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-At the molecular level, novel properties emerge at each new level
Ex: Photosynthesis takes place in a chloroplast, but not in chlorophyll (organelle vs. molecules)

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Systems Biology

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  • A holistic approach to define the complexity of biological systems starting from the understanding that the networks of whole living organisms are more than the sum of their parts
  • Used to fully explore emergent properties
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Structure and Function

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  • Correlation between structure and function

- Cells= basic unit of organisms structure and function

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Eukaryotic Cells

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  • Cells that contain membrane-enclosed organelles, nucleus

- Found in plants and animals

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Prokaryotic

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  • Cells that lack a nucleus or membrane-enclosed organelles

- Smaller than eukaryotic

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DNA

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  • Deoxyribonucleic acid
  • Within a cell, structures inside chromosomes that contain genetic material -Made up of 2 long chains called strand, engaged in a double helix
    • Each strand is made up of 4 types of nucleotides: A, T, C, and G
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Genes

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  • Each section of the DNA of a chromosome
  • Units of inheritance
  • Establish a cell’s identity and function
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Gene Expression

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-The entire process by which the information in a gene directs the manufacture of a cellular product

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Genome

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-The entire library of genetic instructions that organisms inherit

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Proteomics

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-The study of sets of proteins and their properties

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Proteome

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-The entire set of proteins expressed by a given cell, tissue, or organism

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Producers

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-Organisms which produce energy, such as photosynthetic plants

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Consumers

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-Organisms, such as animals, that feed on other organisms or their remains

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Energy and Matter

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  • When organisms use energy to perform work, some energy is lost to the surroundings as heat
    • Energy flows through an ecosystem, entering as light and exiting as heat
  • Chemicals cycle within an ecosystem, where they are used and then recycled
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Interaction

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  • Important in biological systems
  • Interactions btwn components – organs, tissues, cells, molecules– that make up living organisms are crucial to their smooth operation
  • Interactions bwtn organisms= good or harmful
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Charles Darwin

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  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
    • Species showed evidence of descent with modification from common ancestors
    • Natural selection is behind descent with modification
  • Explained duality of unity and diversity
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Natural Selection

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  • Survival of the fittest

- Results in the adaptation of organisms to the circumstances of their way of life and their environment

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Deductive Reasoning

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-General to specific reasoning

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Inductive Reasoning

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-Specific to general reasoning

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Hypothesis

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-Explanation, based on observations and assumptions, that leads to a testable prediction

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Controlled Experiment

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-experimental group is compared to control group

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Variables

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-Features or quantities that vary in an experiment

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Independent Variable

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-Manipulated by researchers

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Dependent Variable

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-Measured/ predicted

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Matter

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-Anything that takes up space and has mass

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Element

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-A substance that cannot be broken down to other substances by chemical reaction

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Compound

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-A substance consisting of two or more different elements combined in a fixed ratio

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Essential Element

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-Elements an organism needs to live a healthy life and reproduce

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Trace elements

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-Elements required by an organism in small quantites

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Atom

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-The smallest unit of matter that still retains the properties of an element

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Atomic Nucleus

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  • The center of an atom

- Made up of protons and neutrons

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Atomic Number

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-The number of protons in an element

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Mass Number

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-The total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom

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Atomic Mass

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  • Full mass of an atomic, similar to the mass number

- Under the Element symbol

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Isotope

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  • Different atomic form of the same element due to different numbers of neutrons
  • Half-life is used to date fossils
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Radioactive Isotope

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-One in which the nucleus decays, giving off particles of energy

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Energy

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-The capacity to cause change through work

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Potential Energy

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-Energy that matter possesses because of its location or structure

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Valence Electrons

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  • The electrons in the outermost electron shell

- Valence= number of valence electrons

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Chemical bonds

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-Types: covalent and ionic

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Ionic Bond

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-Steals electron from another atom due to unequal attraction

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Van Der Waals Interaction

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-Ever-changing regions of positive and negative charge that enables all atoms to stick to one another