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Bio 10
Chapter 1
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | Anything that has or once had all the characteristics of life. |
| Organization | Something arranged in an orderly way. |
| Growth | The addition of mass to an organism. |
| Development | The process of natural changes that take place during the life of an organism. |
| Reproduction | The production of offspring. |
| Species | A group of organisms that can breed with on another and produce fertile offspring. |
| Stimulus | Anything that is part of either environment and causes some sort of reaction by the organism. |
| Response | The reaction to a stimulus. |
| Homeostasis | Regulation of an organism's internal conditions to maintain life. |
| Adaptation | Any inherited characteristic that results from changes to a species over time. |
| Science | A body of knowledge based on the study of nature. |
| Theory | An explanation of a natural phenomenon supported by many observations and experiments over time. |
| Peer review | A process by which, in science, the procedures used during an experiment and the results are evaluated by other scientists who are in the same field or who are conducting similar research. |
| Metric system | Uses units with divisions that are powers of ten. |
| Biology | What is the science of life? |