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Grade 7 Ch 1 Bacteri
From Bacteria to Plants Ch 1 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | living thing |
| cell | basic unit of structure and function in an organism |
| unicellular | single-celled organism |
| multicellular | organisms composed of many cells |
| growth | the process of becoming larger |
| development | the process of change that produces a more complex organism |
| stimulus | a change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react |
| reaction | an action or change in behavior |
| reproduce | to produce offspring that are similar to the parents |
| spontaneous generation | the mistaken idea that living things arise form nonliving sources |
| controlled experiment | two test that are identical in every respect except for one factor |
| variable | the one factor that is changed in an experiment |
| autotrophs | organisms that make their own food |
| heterotrophs | organisms that cannot make their own food |
| homeostasis | the maintenance of stable internal conditions despite changes in the surroundings |
| fossils | traces of ancient organisms that have been preserved in rock or other substances |
| classification | the process of grouping things based on their similarities |
| taxonomy | the scientific study of how living things are classified |
| prokaryotes | organisms whose cells lack a nucleus |
| nucleus | a dense area in a cell that contains nucleic acids |
| eukaryotes | organisms with cells that contain nuclei |