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The bulk chemical composition of the Earth is often modeled after the chemical composition of - chondritic meteorites The high abundance of hydrogen and helium in our universe relative to the other elements is generally attributed to these elements being - the primary material formed by the Big Bang. The process that causes a mixture of two different minerals to melt at a lower temperature than either mineral individually is known as _____ melting. - eutectic Deployment of _________ by ...

Pharmacology definition - scientific study of drugs Neuropharmacology - interactions of drugs in the nervous system psychoparmacology - scientific study of the effect of drugs on behavior what is a drug? - a chemical entity or mixture that is not required for the maintenance of health in a typical individual, and alters biological functions psychoactive drugs - a chemical substance that alters mood, cognition and/or behavior Why do people use drugs? - - religious practices - alt...

Anatomy - What the structure looks like, relationship between structures. Two types of anatomy - gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy gross anatomy - visible structures that can be seen with the naked eye Microscopic Anatomy - deals with structures too small to be seen with the naked eye Two types of gross anatomy - regional and systemic Regional - all the structures found in a particular region of the body ex.) chest region Systemic - Structures found in the same system ex.) ...

Sustainability - the capacity of the earth's natural systems that support life and human economic systems to survive or adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely Biomimicry - the rapidly growing scientific effort to understand, mimic, and catalog the ingenious ways in which nature has sustained life on earth Environmental science - a study of life systems and connections in the natural environment Ecology - the branch of biology that focuses on how living organisms intera...

Primary Succession - succession from nothing, no soil or vegetation, on bare rock, very slow Secondary Succession - succession from bare soil, there is already an ecosystem there Inhibition Succession - an early arriving species that makes a site less suitable for others Succession from pasture - soil compaction in addition to grazing has flattened land, secondary succession, composed of grasses Succession from tilled land or bare soil - land flattened by farming, no pits, secondary ...

Solution - homogenous mixture of 2 or more substances Solute - What is being dissolved Solvent - What is doing the dissolving Saturated - The solution is at the maximum amount of solute Supersaturated - There is more solute dissolved than usually allowed because of a change in the pressure or temperature during dissolution Unsaturated - The solution does not have the maximum amount of solute for its volume of solvent ppm (parts per million) - grams of solute/ grams of solution ...

Significant Figures - 1. Nonzero Integers are always significant. ex: 72.9= 3 sig figs 2. Infinite sig figs for exact numbers. ex: when are measurements exact? 1 L=1000 mL Significant Figures: Zeroes - 1. Leading zeroes are not significant. ex: 0.00234= 3 sig figs 2. Trailing zeroes are not significant ex: 234000= 3 sig figs 3. Unless they come after a decimal point ex: 234.000= 6 sig figs 4. Captive zeroes are always significant ex: 2304= 4 sig figs Sig Figs Multiplication/Division...

what distinguishes bacteria from archaea? - Only bacteria have peptidoglycan in their cell walls Which of the following statements best describe the term synapomorphy? - a trait common in a single monophyletic group, but not generally found outside of that group In marine ecosystems, the main primary producers are ___? - photosynthetic protists Protists and bacteria are grouped into different domains because ___ - protists have a membrane-bounded nucleus, which bacterial cells lack W...

What are the key traits that define eukaryotes? - - very diverse lineage - diverse morphology (uni- and multicellular, range in size) - diverse reproduction (asexually by mitosis, sexually by meiosis) - membrane-bound organelles & DNA (nucleus) - linear chromosomes How did the nuclear envelope evolve? - Increased infoldings of prokaryotic plasma membranes led to the evolution of the nucleus and evolution by natural selection. What are the advantages of infoldings? - * Increases SA:V - ...

hemizygous - Describes an individual who has only one member of a chromosome pair or chromosome segment rather than the usual two. In bees, males are haploid and females are diploid - True Haploid - An organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes. Diploid - an organism or cell having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number pleiotropy - when a single gene causes multiple phenotypes or affects multiple traits. gene flow - Movement of alleles into or out o...