Description

abioticfactor a nonliving thing in an
asexualreproduction a type of reproduction in which one parent organism produces offspring without meiosis and
bioticfactor a living or once living thing in an
cell the smallest unit of
cellmembrane a flexible covering that protects the inside of a cell from
environment outside a
cellwall a stiff structure outside the cell
chloroplast A structure in the cells of plants and some other organisms that captures energy from sunlight and uses it to produce
climate the long term average weather conditions that occur in a particular
commensalism a symbiotic relationship that benefits one species but does not harm or benefit the
community all the populations living in an ecosystem at the same
competition the demand for resources, such as food, water, and shelter, in short supply in a
condensation the process during which water vapor changes into liquid
consumer an organism that cannot make its own food and gets energy by eating other
dichotomouskey a series of descriptions arranged in pairs that lead the user to the identification of an unknown
DNA the abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic
dominanttrait a genetic factor that blocks another genetic
ecosystem all the living things and nonliving things in a given
energypyramid a model that show the amount of energy available in each link of a food
evaporation the process of liquid changing to a gas at the surface of the
foodchain a model that shows how energy flows in an ecosystem through feeding
foodweb a mode of energy transfer that can show how the food chains in a community are
habitat the place within an ecosystem where an organism
heterozygous a genotype in which the two alleles of a gene are
homozygous a genotype in which the two alleles of a gene are the
hypothesis a possible explanation about an observation that can be tested by scientific
migration the instinctive seasonal movement of a populations of organisms from one place to
mitosis a process during which the nucleus and its contents
multicellular living things that are made of two or more
mutualism a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms
nucleus part of a eukaryotic cell that directs cell activity and contains genetic information stored in
osmosis diffusion of water across a
parasitism a symbiotic relationship in which one organisms benefits and the other is
photosynthesis a series of chemical reactions that convert light energy, water, and carbon dioxide into the food energy molecule glucose and give off
precipitation water in liquid or solid form that falls from the
producer an organism that uses an outside energy source and produces its own
recessivetrait a genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant
sexualreproduction type of reproduction in which the genetic material from two different cells combine, producing an
sisterchromatid two identical chromosomes that make up a duplicated
symbiosis a close long term relationship between two species that usually involves an exchange of food or
tissue a group of similar types of cells that work together to carry out specific
unicellular living things that are made of only one
binomialnomenclature a naming system that gives each organism a two word scientific
endocytosis the process during which a cell takes in a substance by surrounding it with the cell
exocytosis the process during which a cell vesicles release their contents outside the

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