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Animal Vocab #1
Term | Definition |
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Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food |
growth | The process of becoming larger |
characteristic | trait of an organism |
development | the process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism |
response | An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus. |
asexual reproduction | process of reproduction involving a single parent that results in offspring that are identical to the parent |
sexual reproduction | Process by which cells from two different parents unite to produce the first cell of a new organism. |
stimulus | any change in an organism's internal or external environment that causes the organism to react |
internal | Located within the body |
external | Located outside the body |
obtain | to get |
heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food. |
environmental stimuli | Change in an organism's external surroundings like a change in light or temperature |
reproduce | Produce offspring that are similar to the parents |
cell | smallest unit of an organism that carries on the function of life |