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CHAFIN-Life Sci #1
CHAFIN-Life Sci #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| scientist who studies living things | biologist |
| basic unit of structure and function in an organism | cell |
| single celled organism | unicellular |
| organisms composed of many cells | multicellular |
| development | change occurring during an organism's life producing a more complex organism |
| stimulus | change in an organism's surroundings that cause it to react |
| response | an action or change in behavior |
| reproduction | produce offspring that are similar to parents |
| spontaneous generation | the mistaken idea that living things come from non-living things |
| growth | process of becoming larger |
| autotroph | organisms that make their own food |
| heterotroph | organisms that cannot makes their own food |
| homeostasis | maintenance of stable internal conditions despite chnages in surroundings |
| basic needs of living things | energy, water, living space,stable internal conditions |
| Pasteur | French chemist who in mid 1600s designed a controlled experiment that disproved spontaneous generation |
| Redi | Italian doctor who designed controlled experiment to show that flies don not spontaneously arise from dead meat |