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Classifying Living t
Living Things
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | any living thing |
| homeostasis | an organism ability to regulate internal, life-maintaining conditions |
| Cell | the smallest unit of an organism that carries on the functions of life |
| stimuli | anything that causes some change in an organism |
| response | reaction to a stimulus |
| environment | all living and nonliving things surrounding an organism |
| Carolus Linnaeus | in 1700, a Swedish naturalist, developed a new system of grouping organism |
| Six classes used to group organism are: | Kingdom, Phylum/division,Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species |
| binomial nonmenclature | two-word naming system used to name organism |
| dichotomus key | detailed list of identifying characteristic that include scientific names. |
| Six Kingdoms of organism | Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia |
| What are human beings scientific names | Homo sapiens |
| prokaryotes | organism without a nucleus |
| eukaryotes | organism with a nucleus |