| Term |
Definition |
| organism |
any living thing |
| cell |
basic unit of structure and function in living things |
| response |
An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus |
| autotroph |
organism that can make its own food |
| heterotroph |
organism that cannot make its own food |
| homeostasis |
process of keeping conditions inside a body constant, no matter the conditions outside the body |
| stimulus |
A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organisms to react. |
| spontaneous generation |
idea that living things come from non-living things |
| reproduction |
process by which living things produce new organisms like themselves |
| unicellular |
containing only one cell
|
| multicellular |
containing more than one cell
|
| development
|
the process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism
|
| controlled experiment |
an experiment in which all of the variables except one remain the same
|
| variable |
the one factor in an experiment that a scientist changes
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