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mhennessey-character
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biology | study of life |
| organism | 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 |
| 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 |
| asexual reproduction | 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 | 1. the act or process of developing; growth; progress: |
| metabolism | the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, |
| autotroph | organism that makes its own food |
| hterotroph | organism that obtains food by eating other organisms |
| irritability | the ability to be excited to a characteristic action or function by the application of some stimulus: |
| stimulus | environmental change that triggers a response |
| response | any behavior of a living organism that results from an external or internal stimulus. |
| homeostasis | internal stability or "steady state" maintained by the body |
| energy | diagram representing energy loss from one trophic level to the next |
| adaptation | 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 |