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What is the term for asexual reproduction involving only one parent, where offspring are identical to the parent?
Binary Fission
Which characteristic of life involves cells responding to diverse stimuli?
Sensitivity/Response to Stimuli
What is the term for the process in which a piece of a parent organism is detached and can grow into a completely new individual?
Regeneration
Which characteristic of life involves organisms following specific genetic instructions to grow and develop?
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What is the term for reproduction involving two parents' cells and the process of fertilization?
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Which characteristic of life involves highly organized, coordinated structures consisting of one or more cells?
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Which process involves the creation of an organism with an exact genetic copy of another?
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What is the term for changing the DNA in living organisms to create something new?
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Which evidence of evolution provides the best proof of the history of life, showing how extinct species have led to today’s species?
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What is the term for structures that are found in an organism but appear to serve no function?
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What is the term for the process of gradual change that takes place over many generations?
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What concept states that similarities in the developmental pattern of organisms exist because of a common ancestor?
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Which group of organisms cannot make their own food and must ingest other organisms?
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What is the term for both living and non-living parts of an ecosystem that determines an organism’s role in the ecosystem?
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Which type of ecosystem is a land-based community of organisms?
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What term is used for reproduction involving two parents' cells and the process of fertilization?
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What is the process called when DNA is cut out of one organism and put into another organism?
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Which type of evidence of evolution involves body parts from different organisms that have the same structures but different functions?
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What is the term for structures that are found in an organism but appear to serve no function?
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Which process involves the creation of an organism with an exact genetic copy of another?
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In ecology, what do we call the study of the interactions between living organisms and their biotic and abiotic environments?
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What is the term for the actual place an organism lives within an ecosystem?
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What do we call autotrophic organisms that make their own food?
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Which type of organism feeds on dead or decaying organisms within an ecosystem?
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What is the term for a land-based community of organisms within an ecosystem?
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