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- 3. Cell with only one set of chromosomes
- 6. The separation of allele pairs
- 8. matter anything that was alive and is now in or on the soil. For it to become organic matter, it must be decomposed into humus.
- 10. Anything that eats or consumes other living organisms. All heterotrophs: they ingest food containing the sun’s energy. All Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores, Decomposers
- 13. Unicellular organism without membrane-bound organelles
- 14. The process of burning something
- 15. The genetic makeup of an organism
- 16. A virus that infects bacteria
- 18. Another word for biomolecule
- 23. Type of consumer that eats dead plants, animals and other organisms.
- 24. any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence of organisms in a specific environment. Amount of water, food, space, Temperature, Availability of mates
- 25. Creates two new identical cells
- 27. A molecule made up of monomers
- 29. the place in which an organism lives out its life
- 30. Ingest (eat) food containing the sun’s energy. All Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores, Decomposers
- 32. all living organisms inhabiting the Earth
- 33. A specific trait that's coded for
- 34. Plural for nucleus
- 36. Also called: primary producer, producer, or PLANT. The beginning of a food chain
- 37. Fertilized egg with genes from both mom and dad
- 38. the role a species plays in a community; its total way of life
- 39. nonliving parts of the environment (i.e. temperature, soil, light, moisture, air currents
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- 1. Substances found in all living things necessary for life
- 2. An organism that causes a disease within a host
- 4. Observable traits of an organism such as appearance
- 5. Unicellular organism with membrane-bound nucleus and organelles, more complex than a prokaryote
- 7. sink Anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. Examples include: plants, ocean and soil
- 9. A type of species which is a non-native (from a different part of the world) organism that spreads and harms the environment, economy, or human health. They can be plants, animals, parasites, or diseases.
- 11. The concentration of a toxin (like a pesticide) in the tissues of organisms in a lower trophic level gets passed up to the next level when they get eaten. These toxins cannot be flushed out of the body, so each trophic level ends up with higher amounts of toxic material in their tissues.
- 12. A substance used for destroying insects or other organisms. Overuse can kill beneficial organisms in the soil. Overuse can runoff into rivers and streams killing beneficial organisms in the water.
- 17. all autotrophs (plants), they trap energy from the sun. Beginning of the food chain
- 19. The smallest part of a biomolecule; the building block
- 20. Both alleles are expressed with no blendig
- 21. the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environments, focusing on energy transfer. The science of relationships
- 22. Cell with two complete sets of chromosomes
- 26. The process of making something
- 28. Microscopic plants that float among the other plankton in the upper layer of the oceans. Phyto means plant or plant-like. So they go through photosynthesis. Often the primary producer for ocean food webs
- 31. The passing of genes from parent to child
- 32. The total variety of organisms. The more different types of organisms = healthier ecosystem
- 35. Regulation of an internal environment