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Homeostasis : ability to maintain a stable internal temperature
Adaptation : inherited characteristics of a species that develops over time
Autotroph : organism that makes its own food (plants)
Heterotroph :organisms that cannot make their own food therefore gains energy from autotrophs or other heterotrophs(animals)
Herbivore : heterotroph that only consumes plants
Carnivore : heterotroph that only consumes animals
Omnivores : heterotroph that consumes both plants and animals
Detretivores : heterotrophs that consume dead organisms
Trophic Levels : a step on the food chain/web
Food Chain : simple model to shoe energy flow throughout an ecosystem
Food web : Complex model to show energy flow throughout an ecosystem (many food chains)
Biomass : total mass living at each trophic level
Substrates : reactant to which an enzyme binds
Active Sites : specific place where a substrate binds on an enzyme
Energy : ability to do work
Thermodynamics : study of energy flow throughout the universe
Metabolism : chemical reaction in a cell
Photosynthesis : transformation of sunlight to energy by plants
Cellular Respiration : catabolic pathway in which organic molecules are broken down to release energy for the cell
ATP : energy carrying biological molecule
Thylakoids : compartment essential to photosynthesis
Grana : stacks formed inside thylakoids
Stroma : fluid filled space outside the grana
Pigments : light absorbing color molecules
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organisms that cannot make their own food therefore gains energy from autotrophs or other heterotrophs(animals)
catabolic pathway in which organic molecules are broken down to release energy for the cell
Complex model to show energy flow throughout an ecosystem (many food chains)
inherited characteristics of a species that develops over time
simple model to shoe energy flow throughout an ecosystem
specific place where a substrate binds on an enzyme