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Evolution
the process of change that has transformed life on earth from its earliest beginnings to the diversity of organisms living today
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biology
the scientific study of life
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eukaryotic cells
subdivided by internal membranes into various membrane- enclosed organelles; largest organelle is the nucleus and have other organelles in the cytoplasm
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prokaryotic cells
the DNA is not separated from the rest of the cell by enclosure in a membrane-bounded nucleus (its also smaller)
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genome
the entire library of genetic instructions that an organism inherits; There are about 75,000 kinds of proteins
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negative feedback
- most common form; accumulation of an end product
- of a process slows that process
- Ex: ATP production of excess.
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less common; the end product speeds up its
production ; Ex: blood clotting
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taxonomy
the branch of biology that names and classifies species, formalizes this ordering of species into groups of inc. breadth
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Bacteria, Archaea, eukarya
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Five Kingdomes
Plants, animals, fungi, single-celled eukaryotes, prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea)
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Charles Darwin
theory of natural selection
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deductive reasoning
- reasoning from a asset of
- specific observations to reach a general conclusion
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inductive reasoning
a type of logic
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