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Evolution
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Descent with modification, the idea that living species are descendatns from present day generation to generation
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Biology
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Scientific study of life
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Emergent properties
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New properties that arise with each step upward in the hierarchy of life owing to arrangment and interactions of parts complexity increases
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Systems biology
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Approach to studying biology that aims to model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems
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Eukarytoic Cell
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Type of cell with a membrane-enclosed nucleus and membrane-enclosed organelles with eukaryotic cells
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Prokaryotic Cell
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Type of cell lacking a membrane-enclosed nucleus and membrane-enclosed organelles organisms with prokaryote cells
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DNA
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Double-helix stranded helical neulic acid moelcule consisting of nucleotide:Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine, duplicates structure
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Gene
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Discrete unit of hereidty infromation consisting of specific nucleotide sequence in DNA (RNA or some viruses)
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Genome
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Genetic material of an organism or virus complete complement of an organism's or virus' gnes along with noncoding nuclic acid sequences
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Bioinformatics
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Use of computer software and mathematical models to process and integrate biological info from large data set
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Negative Feedback
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Primary mechanism of homostasis, whereby a change in physiological variable triggers response that counteracts intial change
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Positive Feedback
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Physiological control mechanism in which a change in variable triggers mechanisms that amplify the change
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Bacteria
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One of the two prokaryotes domain
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Archaea
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One of two prokaryotic domains
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Eukarya
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The domain that includes all eukaryotic organims
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