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ahenrique-characteri
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |