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Chapter 1
Living Thing
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | living thing |
| cell | the basic unit structure and function in an organism. |
| multicellular | consisting of many cells. |
| unicellular | made of a single cell. |
| stimulus | a change in an organism surroundings that causes the organism to react. |
| response | an action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus. |
| classification | the process of grouping things based on their similarities. |
| taxonomy | the scientific study of how thing are classified. |
| species | a group of similar organisms that can mate each other and produce offspring that can also mate and produce. |
| development | the process of change that occurs during an organisms life to produce a more complex organism. |
| prokaryote | an organism whose cells lack a nucleus and some other cell structure. |
| eukayote | An organism whose cells contain nuclei. |