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ahenrique-characteri
Question | Answer |
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Biology | The study of life. |
Metabolism | All of a cells chemicals processes. |
Organism | Living things. |
Autotroph | Organism that makes their own food. |
Tissue | Cooperating unit of many similar cells that perform a specific function. |
Heterotroph | Organism that obtains food by eating other organisms. |
Organ | Unit consisting of several tissues that together preform a specific task. |
Irritability | The ability of an organism to react to a stimulus. |
Prokaryote | A cell lacking a nucleus and most other organelles. |
Stimulus | Environmental change that triggers a response. |
Eukaryote | Cell with a nucleus and other internal organelles. |
Responce | An organisms reaction to a stimulus. |
Sexual reproduction | Process in which genetic material from two parents combines and produces offspring that differ genetically from either parent. |
asexual reproduction | Producing without a mate within ones self. |
homostasis | Internal stability maintained by the body. |
energy | Something required by living things in order to carry out their life processes. |
growth | An increase in the number of cells or size of the cells. |
adaptation | An inherited characteristic that improves an organisms ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment. |
development | All the changes an organism goes though in its lifetime. |
evolution | Generation-generation change in the proportion of different inherited geans in a population that accounts for all of the changes that have transformed life over immense time. |