Apologia Biology Module 1
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- Abiogenesis
- The theory that, long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through random chemical reactions.
- Asexual reproduction
- Reproduction accomplished by a single organism.
- Autotrophs (aw' toh trohfs)
- Organisms that are able to make their own food
- Binomial nomenclature (bye no' mee ul no' mun klay chur)
- Naming an organism with its genus and species name
- Carnivores (kar nih' vors)
- Organisms that eat only organisms other than plants
- Consumers
- Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for food
- Decomposers
- Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
- Eukaryotic cell (yoo kehr ee aht' ik sell)
- A cell with distinct, membrane-bound organelles
- Herbivores (hur bih' vors)
- Organisms that eat plants exclusively
- Heterotrophs (hef er uh trohfs)
- Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food
- Hypothesis
- An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question
- Inheritance
- The process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring
- Metabolism (muh tab' uh liz um)
- The process by which a living organism takes energy from its surroundings and uses it to sustain itself, develop, and grow
- Microorganisms
- Living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye
- Mutation
- An abrupt and marked difference between offspring and parent
- Omnivores (ahm nih' vors)
- Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms
- Photosynthesis (foh' toh sin thuh' sis)
- The process by which a plant uses the energy of sunlight and certain chemicals to produce its own food. Oxygen is often a by-product of photosynthesis.
- Producers
- Organisms that produce their own food
- Prokaryotic cell (pro kehr ee aht' ik sell)
- A cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound organelles
- Receptors
- Special structures or chemicals that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their surroundings
- Scientific law
- A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data
- Sexual reproduction
- Reproduction that requires two organisms, a male and a female
- Species
- A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units
- Taxonomy (tak sahn' uh mee)
- The science of classifying organisms
- Theory
- A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data