science mid-term
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- biosphere
- the part of the earth that supports life
- producer
- an organism that makes its own food
- law
- statement about how things work in nature that seems to be true consistently
- Golgi body
- organelles that package cellular materials and transport them within the cell or out of the cell
- photosynthesis
- process by which plants use light energy to produce a simple sugar from carbon dioxide and water and give off oxygen
- vacuole
- storage organelle of a cell
- genotype
- the genetic makeup of an organism
- population
- total number of individuals of one species occupying in the same area
- chloroplast
- green chlorophyll containing plant-cell organelle that uses light energy to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water
- variable
- something in an experiment that can change
- genotype
- the genetic makeup of an organism
- adaptation
- any structural or behavioral change that helps an organism survive in its enviroment
- enviroment
- study of surrounding area all organisms live
- decomposer
- various organisms that constituents of organic substances to ecological cycles by feeding on and breaking down dead protoplasm
- ecology
- study of of ecosystems of living organisms
- algae
- chlorophyll containing plantlike protists, that produce oxygen as a result of photosynthesis
- phenotype
- outward physical appearance and behavior of an organism as a result of it's genotype
- antiobiotic
- chemical produced by some bacteria that are used to limit growth of other bacteria
- biogenesis
- theory that living things come only from other living things
- abiotic factor
- nonliving features of the enviroment, including air, water, sunlight, soil , tempature, and climate
- predator
- an organism that captures and eats another organism
- biotic factor
- a living part of the eco-system
- consumer
- an organism that obtains food by eating
- ecosystem
- all living organisms living in an area
- asexual
- as type of reproduction, budding and regeneration in which a new organism is produced from one organism