Living Things
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| oraganism | a living thing
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| cell | the basic unit of structure and function in an organism
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| unicellular | made of a single cell
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| multicellular | consisting of many cells
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| stimulus | a change in an organism's surrounding that causes the organism to react
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| response | an action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of stimulus
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| development | the process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism
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| spontaneous generation | the mistaken idea that living things arise from non-living things
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| controlled experiment | an experiment in which all features are identical except one
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| autotroph | an organism that makes its own food
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| heterotroph | an organism tat cannot make its own food
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| homeostasis | the maintenance of stable internal conditions
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| classification | the process of grouping things based on their similarities
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| taxonomy | the scientific study of how living things are classified
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| binomial nomenclature | the system for naming organisms in which each organism is given a unique two part scientific name indicating its genus and species
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| genus | a classification grouping that consist of a number of similar closely related species
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| species | a group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that also can mate and produce
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| evolution | the process by which species gradually change overtime
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| prokaryote | organisms with cells without nucleus, unicellular
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| nucleus | area in a cell that contains nucleic acids
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| eukaryote | organisms with cells that contain nuclei
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