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Abiogenesis - Belief that livings things may develop from lifeless matter

Acid - A compound that In water produces hydrogen ions, usually tastes sour, a pH
less than 7

Acid rain - rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas
emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water

Alloy - Homogenous mixture composed of two or more metals

Amoeba - A type of Protozoan that has no permanent shape

Amorphous - having no definite form or distinct shape

Amplitude - The maximum value of a wave or vibration

Anaerobic respiration - Fermentation, or respiration in the absence of oxygen

Anemia - lack of a normal number of red blood cells

Anode - Positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; negative terminal of a battery;
negative plate of a vacuum tube; site where oxidation occurs

Antibiotic - compound that blocks the growth and reproduction of bacteria

Antibody - A protein, usually in the blood of an organism, that serves to counteract
the effects of disease-producing bacteriabor viruses

Antidote - a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison

Anticeptic - A substance that prevents the growth or activity of bacteria

Antitoxin - Substance in the body neutralizes toxins

Appendix - Wormlike, narrow part of the alimentary canal, in the lower right-hand
part of the human abdomen

Armature - A piece of metal or a coil of wire that moves back and forth, or rotates, in
a magnetic field

,Artery - a blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart to the periphery of the
body

Arthropods - A group of organisms that have jointed appendages, an exoskeleton,
bilateral symmetry, and reproduce sexually; insects, arachnids, millipedes and
cenitpedes, and crustaceans

Ascorbic acid - Vitamin C; found in citrus fruits, tomatoes, and green vegetables

Aseptic - Free of living bacteria

Asexual reproduction - Producing offspring without inion of individulaln or germ
cells

Assimilation - Process by which digested food is utilized by the body to build up or
repair cells

Assimilation - Process by which digested food is utilized by the body to build up or
repair cells

Asteroid - One of a group of "minor plants" between Mars and Jupiter, of which about
1,500 are known

Atmosphere - The whole mass of gases surrounding a planet

Atom - smallest particle of an element, consisting of a nucleus surrounded
bynelectrons

Atomic fission - The breaking down of an atomic nucleus, into two or more parts,
with a great release of energy

Atomic fusion - The joining of atomic nuclei to form heavier nuclei, such as
deuterium (heavy hydrogen) and tritium (another isotope of hydrogen) to make
helium, resulting in the release of enormous quantities of energy

Auricle - An upper chamber of the heart thatnreceives blood from the veins-also
called the atrium

Autotroph - Organism (a green plant) that nourishes itself by making organic
materials out of inorganic

Auxin - a plant hormone that promotes root formation and bud growth

Bacillus - aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium

, Bacteria - (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-
shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission

Balance in Nature - the balence of animals and palntes in their enviroment

Barometer - an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure

Basel Metabolism - A term used to discribe the amount of energy the body expends
when in a inactive or basic (basal) state.

Base - any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and
reacting with an acid to form a salt and water

Bedrock - solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil

Benign Tumor - a tumor that is not cancerous

Bile - a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder

Binomal Nomenclature - the naming system for organism in wich each organsim is
given a two part name-a genus name of different species in an area

Biome - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life
and the prevailing climate

Biospy - taking out and examining living tissue from a living thing

Brain - that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous
centers

Bronchial Tube - one of the pair of tubes that branch off from the trachea and go into
the lungs

Calorie - unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the
temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure

Cancer - any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell
division

Capillary - long and slender with a very small internal diameter

Capacitor - An electrical device used to store electrical charge.

Carbohydrate - an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy
for animals

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