This set is designed for Holt Rinehart and Winston- Modern Biology textbook Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 biology terms but it could help in other biology classes too. Hope it helps, and good luck! :)
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| 10228406 | biology | The study of life | 10228406 | |
| 10228407 | organization | the high degree of order within an organism's internal and external parts and in its interactions with the living world | 10228407 | |
| 10228408 | cell | the smallest unit that can perform all life's processes | 10228408 | |
| 10228409 | unicellular | made up of one cell | 10228409 | |
| 10228410 | multicellular | multiple cells | 10228410 | |
| 10228411 | organ | a structure that carries out specialized jobs within an organ system | 10228411 | |
| 10228412 | tissues | groups of cells that have similar abilities and that allow the organ to function | 10228412 | |
| 10228413 | organelles | tiny structure that carry out functions necessary for the cell to stay alive | 10228413 | |
| 10228414 | biological molecules | the chemical compounds that provide physical structure and that bring about movement, energy, use, and other cellular functions | 10228414 | |
| 10228415 | homeostasis | that maintenance of a stable level of internal conditions are constantly changing | 10228415 | |
| 10228416 | metabolism | the sum of all chemical reactions that take in and transform energy and materials from the environment | 10228416 | |
| 10228417 | cell division | the fomation of two new cells from an existing cell | 10228417 | |
| 10228418 | domains | major subdivisions of all organism | 10228418 | |
| 10228419 | kingdoms | a grouping system that divides organisms into 6 major categories | 10228419 | |
| 10228420 | ecology | the study of organisms interacting with each other and the environment | 10228420 | |
| 10228421 | ecosystems | communities of living species and their physical environments | 10228421 | |
| 10228422 | evolution | the process in which the inherited characteristics within populations change over generations | 10228422 | |
| 10228423 | natural selection | organisms that have certain favorable traits are better able to survive and reproduce successfully than organism that lacks these traits | 10228423 | |
| 10228424 | adaptations | traits that improve an individual's ability to survive and reproduce | 10228424 | |
| 10228425 | scientific method | an organized approach to learn how the natural world works | 10228425 | |
| 10228426 | observation | the act of perceiving a natural occurance that causes someone to pose question | 10228426 | |
| 10228427 | hypothesis | a proposed explanation for the way a particular aspect of the natural world functions | 10228427 | |
| 10228428 | prediction | a statement that forcasts what would happen in a test situation if the hypothesis were true | 10228428 | |
| 10228429 | experiment | used to test a hypothesis and its predictions | 10228429 | |
| 10228430 | control group | provides a normal standard against which the biologist can compare results of the experimental group | 10228430 | |
| 10228431 | experimental group | identical to the control group except the independant variable | 10228431 | |
| 10228432 | independant variable | the experimenter manipulates this | 10228432 | |
| 10228433 | dependant variable | is affected by the independant variable | 10228433 | |
| 10228434 | theory | a set of hypothesis that is confirmed to be true many times | 10228434 | |
| 10228435 | peer review | when scientists who are experts in the field anonymously read a research paper and critique it | 10228435 | |
| 10228436 | compound light microscope | a microscope that shines light through a specimen and has two lenses to magnify an image | 10228436 | |
| 10228437 | eyepiece/ocular lens | magnifies an image, usually 10x | 10228437 | |
| 10228438 | objective lens | light passes through the objective lens, which is located directly above the specimen | 10228438 | |
| 10228439 | stage | a platform that supports a slide holding the specimen | 10228439 | |
| 10228440 | light source | a light bulb that provides light for viewing the image | 10228440 | |
| 10228441 | magnification | the increase of an object's apparent size | 10228441 | |
| 10228442 | nosepiece | the structure that holds the set of objective lenses | 10228442 | |
| 10228443 | inference | an assumption | 10228443 | |
| 10228444 | resolution | the power to show details clearly in an image | 10228444 | |
| 10228445 | SEM (scanning electron microscope) | passes a beam of electrons over the specimens surface | 10228445 | |
| 10228446 | TEM (transmission electron microscope) | transmits a beam of electrons through a very thinly sliced specimen | 10228446 | |
| 10228447 | metric system | a standard system of measurement used by scientists | 10228447 | |
| 10228448 | base units | describe quantities in SI | 10228448 | |
| 10228449 | matter | anything that occupies space and has mass | 10228449 | |
| 10228450 | mass | the quantity of matter an object has | 10228450 | |
| 10228451 | weight | the force produced by gravity acting on mass | 10228451 | |
| 10228452 | elements | substances that cannot be broken down chemically into simpler kinds of matter | 10228452 | |
| 10228453 | atom | the simplest particle of an element that retains all of the properties of that element | 10228453 | |
| 10228454 | nucleus | the central region of an atom that makes up the bulk of the mass | 10228454 | |
| 10228455 | nucleus | contains protons and neutrons | 10228455 | |
| 10228456 | orbital | a three dimensional region around a nucleus that indicates the probable location of an electron (like the shell) | 10228456 | |
| 10228457 | isotopes | atoms of the same element that have a different number of neutrons | 10228457 | |
| 10228458 | compounds | made up of two or more elements in a fixed proportion | 10228458 | |
| 10228459 | chemical bonds | the attractive forces that hold atoms together | 10228459 | |
| 10228460 | covalent bond | forms when two atoms share one or more pairs of electrons | 10228460 | |
| 10228461 | molecule | the simplest part of a substance that retains all of the properties of that substance and can exist in a free state | 10228461 | |
| 10228462 | ion | an atom or molecule with an electrical charge | 10228462 | |
| 10228463 | ionic bond | positive and negative charges attract each other | 10228463 | |
| 10228464 | energy | the ability to do work | 10228464 | |
| 10228465 | chemical reaction | one or more substances change to produce one or more different substances | 10228465 | |
| 10228466 | reactants | shown on the left side of the equation. | 10228466 | |
| 10228467 | products | shown on the right side of the equation. | 10228467 | |
| 10228468 | metabolism | all of the chemical reactions that occur in an organism | 10228468 | |
| 10228469 | activation energy | the amount of energy needed to start the reaction | 10228469 | |
| 10228470 | catalysts | reduce the amount of activation energy needed for a reaction to take place | 10228470 | |
| 10228471 | enzyme | protein or RNA molecule that speeds up metabolic reactions without being permanently changed or destroyed | 10228471 | |
| 10228472 | redox reactions | electrons transferred between atoms | 10228472 | |
| 10228473 | oxidation reaction | a reactant loses one or more electrons and becomes positive | 10228473 | |
| 10228474 | reduction reaction | a reactant gains one or more electrons and becomes negative | 10228474 | |
| 10228475 | polar | uneven distribution of charge | 10228475 | |
| 10228476 | hydrogen bond | the force of attraction between a hydrogen molecule with a partial positive charge and another atom or molecule with a partial or full negative charge | 10228476 | |
| 10228477 | cohesion | an attractive force that holds molecules of a single substance together | 10228477 | |
| 10228478 | adhesion | the attractive force between two particles of different substances | 10228478 | |
| 10228479 | capillarity | the attraction between molecules that results in the rise of the surface of a liquid when in contact with a solid | 10228479 | |
| 10228480 | solution | a mixture in which one or more substances are uniformly distributed in another substance | 10228480 | |
| 10228481 | solute | a substance dissolved in the solvent | 10228481 | |
| 10228482 | solvent | the substance in which the solute is dissolved | 10228482 | |
| 10228483 | concentration | the amount of solute dissolved in a fixed amount of the solution | 10228483 | |
| 10228484 | saturated solution | one in which no more solute can dissolve | 10228484 | |
| 10228485 | aqueous solution | solutions in which water is the solvent | 10228485 | |
| 10228486 | hydroxide ion | OH- | 10228486 | |
| 10228487 | hydronium ion | H30+ | 10228487 | |
| 10228488 | acid | the number of hydronium ions is greater than the number of hydroxide ions | 10228488 | |
| 10228489 | base | the number or hydroxide ions is greater than the number of hydronium ions | 10228489 | |
| 10228490 | pH scale | a scale for comparing the relative concentrations of hydronium ions and hydroxide ions | 10228490 | |
| 10228491 | buffers | chemical substances that neutralize small amounts of either an acid or base added to a solution | 10228491 |
