Bosch- Characteristics of Living Things
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| cell | a membrane covered structure that contains all of the material necessary for life
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| stimulus | a change in an organism's environment that affects the activity of an organism
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| response | a reaction due to a change in an organism's environment
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| hemeostasis | maintenance of a stable internal environment
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| sexual reproduction | two parents produce offspring that share the characteristics of both parents
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| DNA | hereditary material that controls all the activities of a cell
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| Heredity | transmission of characteristics fron one generation to the next
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| metabolism | the sum total of all the chemical activities of an organism
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| producer | organisms that can make their own food
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| consumer | organisms that must eat other organisms to get food
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| decomposer | organisms that get their food by breaking down the nutrients in dead organisms or animal wastes
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| protein | the second most abundant material in a cell
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| carbohydrate | source of energy, made of sugars
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| lipid | include fats and oils
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| nucleic acid | DNA, the blueprint to make proteins
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| ATP | major fuel source for all the cell's activities
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| spontaneous generation | the belief that life just appears
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| cold-blooded | animals that have a body temperature that changes with the environment
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| warm-blooded | animals that have a constant body temperature
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| multi-cellular | more than one-celled organism
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| uni-cellular | one celled organism
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| Name 3 one-celled organisms | hydra, paramecium, amoeba
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| photosynthesis | the process that converts the energy in sunlight to energy in stored food
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| asexual reproduction | a single parent produces offspring that are identical to the parent
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| List the six characteristics of all living things | cells, sense and respond to change, reproduce, energy, DNA, grow and develop
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| Four necessities of living things | food, water, air, a place to live
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| Six elements of living things | carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus
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