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Campbell Biology 7th Ed. Seventh Edition Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Campbell Biology 7th Ed. Seventh Edition Chapter 1

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1184525689BiosphereConsists of all life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and the atmosphere.
1184525690EcosystemA system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
1184525691CommunityA group of interacting plants and animals inhabiting a given area
1184525692PopulationA group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
1184525693OrganismAn individual living thing
1184525694Organ SystemA group of organs that work together in performing vital body functions.
1184525695OrganA collection of tissues that carry out a specialized function of the body
1184525696TissueA group of similar cells that perform the same function.
1184525697CellBasic unit of life
1184525698OrganelleA tiny cell structure that carries out a specific function within the cell
1184525699MoleculeA group of atoms bonded together
1184525700Emergent PropertiesNew properties that emerge with each step upward in the hierarchy of life, owing to the arrangement and interactions of parts as complexity increases.
1184525701Prokaryotic cellsSmall, simple, no nucleus, no membrane-bound organelles, single loop of DNA (nucleoid), no cellulose, cytoplasm, cell membrane, cell wall (made of carbs), sometimes have cilia or flagella (movement).
1184525702Eukaryotic cellsLarger, complex, with nucleus, membrane bound organelles, DNA tightly wrapped around histone proteins in chromosomes, cellulose in plant cell walls.
1184525703Systems BiologyAn approach that attempts to model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems based on a study of the interactions among the system's parts.
1184525704GenesDNA segments that serve as the key functional units in hereditary transmission.
1184525705Three Domains of lifeBacteria Archaea Eukarya
11845257064 Kingdoms of EukaryaProtists Plantae Fungi Animalia
1184525707Inductive ReasoningA type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations.
1184525708Deductive Reasoningreasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every morning; therefore, the sun will rise on Tuesday morning.)
1184525709Controlled ExperimentAn experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time.

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