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Ltierney-charactoris
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biology | Study of living things |
| Organism | living thing |
| Tissue | Cooperating unit of many similar cells that preform a specific function. |
| Organ | Unit consisting of several tissues that together perform a specific task. |
| Prokaryote | Cell lacking a nucleus and most other organelles |
| Ukaryote | Cell with a nucleus and other internal organelles |
| Sexual Reproduction | Process in which genetic material from two parents combines and produces offspring that differ genetically from either parent. |
| Groth | Protein that igneciates cell division |
| Development | all the changes an organism goes through in life. |
| Metabolism | All of a cells chemical process |
| Autotroph | Organism that makes its own food |
| Heterotroph | Organisms that obt5ains food by eating other oganisms |
| irritability | an organism that respond to stimulus |
| Stimulus | enviromental change that triggers a response |
| Response | an organism reaction to a stimulus |
| Homeostasis | internal stability or steady state maintained by the body |
| Energy | somethying required by living things in order to carry out their life process. |
| Adaptation | inherited characteristic that improves an organisms ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment |
| evolution | generation to generation of change and preportion of different inherited genes in a population that accounts for all of the changes that have transformed life. |