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Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 1, Problem 15SQ
Match the terms with the most suitable description.
| _____life | a. if-then statement |
| _____probability | b. unique type of organism |
| _____species | c. emerges with cells |
| _____hypothesis | d. testable explanation |
| _____prediction | e measure of chance |
| _____producer | f. makes its own food |
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