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Glee-Characteristics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biology | The study of life |
| Organism | Any living thing |
| Tissue | Cooperating unit of many similar cells that perform a specific function |
| Organ | Unit consisting of several tissues that together perform a specific task |
| Prokaryote | Cell lacking a nucleus and most other organelles |
| Eukaryote | Cell with a nucleus (surrounded by its own membrane) and other internal organelles |
| Sexual Reproduction | Process in which genetic material from two parents combines and produces offspring that differ genetically from either parent |
| Asexual Reproduction | Process in which a single cell or set of cells produces offspring that inherit all their genetic material from one parent |
| Growth | Protein that initiates cell division |
| Development | A gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate |
| Metabolism | All of a cell's chemical processes |
| Autograph | Organism that makes its own food |
| Heterotroph | Organism that obtains food by eating other organisms |
| Irritability | The ability of the cell to receive and respond to a stimulus. |
| Stimulus | Environmental change that triggers a response |
| Response | An action or movement due to the application of a stimulus. |
| Homeostasis | Internal stability or "steady state" maintained by the body |
| Energy | the capacity for work or the ability to do work, or produce change. |
| Adaptation | Inherited characteristic that improves an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment |
| Evolution | Generation-to-generation change in the proportion of different inherited genes in a population that account for all of the changes that have transformed life over an immense time |