chapter vocab by Madeline McCarthey

Endotherm (homeotherm)

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An animal that regulates its own internal body temperature through metabolic processes

Five Kingdoms of Life

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animal, plant, bacteria, fungi and protist

Phylogeny

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the study of evolutionary relatedness among groups of organisms

Mitosis

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a process where one cell divides into two cells

Six Kingdoms of Life

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he level of classification just below Domain

Osmoconformer

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things that keep their interal fluids to themselves

Osmosis

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the diffusion of water

Asexual reproduction

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reproducing with only one parent

Hermaphroditic

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the expression of both male and female reproductive function in a single individual

Surface-to-volume ratio

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uhm it means that surface is different from volume

Genus

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species that have been classified together based on phylogenetic relatedness or common features, such as sharing similarities or specific characteristics

Diffusion

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diffusion is the things breaking down

Excrete

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The primary excretory organ in fishes, as in other vertebrates, is the kidney.

Heredity

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the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring

Ectotherm (poikilotherm)

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an organism whose internal temperature varies considerably

Urea

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a nitrogenous compound formed in the liver

Ecosystem

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living and non living things combined in the same habitat

Binomial nomenclature

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two-word naming system

Sexual reproduction

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needing two things to create a baby

Osmoregulate

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a proccess that things use to balance electrolytes and water

Symbiosis

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an interaction between two dissimilar things living in close physical association

Eukaryote

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anything with a nucleus

Species

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different types of animals or humans like how sharks and humans are different

Community

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community is a group of living things working together

Population

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an amount of how many living things

Prokaryote

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basically any thing that lacks a nucleus which mainly is bacteria

Producer

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things that make their own food

Cellular Respiration

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it is basically how cells repair themselves

Autotroph

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things that can create food from light

Chlorophyll

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A green pigment that makes a tree look green

Heterotroph

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need to consume other things in order to eat and cannot get food from the sunlight

Photosynthesis

mam7010 — 2024-11-14 15:43:18 UTC

it is a process where the sun gives food to the plant by carbon dioxide going in and then oxygen coming out