all the vocab words and root words in chapter 1
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| 7257501959 | archaea | one of two prokaryotic domains, the other being bacteria | 0 | |
| 7257501960 | bacteria | one of two prokaryotic domains, the other being archaea | 1 | |
| 7257501961 | bioinformatics | the use of comps, software, and mathematical models to process and integrate biological info from large data sets | 2 | |
| 7257501962 | biology | the scientific study of life | 3 | |
| 7257501963 | biosphere | the entire portion of earth inhabited by life; the sum of all the planter's ecosystems | 4 | |
| 7257501964 | cell | the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life | 5 | |
| 7257501965 | community | all the organisms that inhabit a particular area; an assemblage of populations of different species living close enuf together for potential interactions | 6 | |
| 7257501966 | consumer | relies upon the feeding of other organisms for survival | 7 | |
| 7257501967 | controlled experiment | an experiment in which an experimental group is compared with a control group that caries only in the factor being tested | 8 | |
| 7257501968 | data | recorded observations | 9 | |
| 7257501969 | deductive reasoning | a type of logic in which specific results are predicted from a general premise | 10 | |
| 7257501970 | DNA | a double-streanded, helical nuvleic acid molecule consisting of nucleotide monomers w a deoxrubose sugar and the nitrogenous bases A, C, G, T capable of replicating and determining the ingerited structure of a cell's proteins | 11 | |
| 7257501971 | discovery science | the process of scientific inquiry that focuses on describing nature | 12 | |
| 7257501972 | domain | a taxonomic caregory above the kingdom level | 13 | |
| 7257501973 | eukarya | the domain that includes all eukaryotic organisms | 14 | |
| 7257501974 | ecosystems | all the organisms in a given area as well as the abiotic factors with which they intereact; one or more communities and the phusical environment around them. | 15 | |
| 7257501975 | emergent properties | new properties that arise w each step upward in the heratchy of life, owing to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexitly of life increases | 16 | |
| 7257501976 | eukaryotic cell | a type of cell w a membrane-enclosed nucleus and membrane-enclosed organelles. | 17 | |
| 7257501977 | gene | a discrete unit of hereditary info consisting of a specific nucleotide sequence in DNA | 18 | |
| 7257501978 | genome | the genetic material of an organism or virus; the complete complement of an organism's or citus's genes along with its nincoding nucleic acid sequence | 19 | |
| 7257501979 | hypothesis | a tentative answer to a well framed question, narrower in scope than a theory and subject to testing | 20 | |
| 7257501980 | inductive reasoning | a type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific obserations | 21 | |
| 7257501981 | inquiry | the search for info and explanation, often focused by specific questions | 22 | |
| 7257501982 | animalia | the kingdom that consists of multicellular eukaryotes that ingest their food | 23 | |
| 7257501983 | Fungi | eukaryotic kingdom that includes organisms that absorb nutrients after decomposing organic material | 24 | |
| 7257501984 | Plantae | the kingdom that consists of multicellular eukaryotes that carry out photosynthesis | 25 | |
| 7257501985 | model | a rep of a theory or proces | 26 | |
| 7257501986 | molecule | two or more atoms eld together by covalent bonds | 27 | |
| 7257501987 | negative feedback | a primary mechanism of homeostasis, whereby a change in a phusiological variable truggers a response that counteracts the initial change | 28 | |
| 7257501988 | organ | a specialized center of body function composed of several diff types of tissues | 29 | |
| 7257501989 | organ system | a group of organs that work together in performing viral body functions | 30 | |
| 7257501990 | organelle | any of several membreans enclosed structires w specialized functions, suspended in the cytosaol of eukaryotic cells | 31 | |
| 7257501991 | population | a lockalized group of individuals of the same species that can interbreed, producing fertile offspring | 32 | |
| 7257501992 | positive feedback | a physiological control mechanism in which a change in a variable truggers mechanisms that amplify the change | 33 | |
| 7257501993 | prokaryotic cell | a type of cell lacking a membrane enclosed nucleus and membrane enclosed organelles | 34 | |
| 7257501994 | reductionism | the whole is greater than the sum of its parts | 35 | |
| 7257501995 | systems biology | an approach to studying biology that aims to model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems | 36 | |
| 7257501996 | technology | the application of scientific knowlede for a specific purpose, often involving industry or commerce but also including uses in basic research | 37 | |
| 7257501997 | theory | an explanation that is broad on schope, generates new hypotheses, and is supported by a large body of evidence | 38 | |
| 7257501998 | tissue | an integrated goup of cells w a common function, structure or both | 39 |
