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Section 1 Vocab.
Science chapter 1 section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organism | a living thing |
| cell | the basic unit of a structure and function in an organism |
| unicellular | made of a single cell |
| multicellular | consisting of many cells |
| stimulus | a change in an organism's surrounding that causes the organism to react |
| response | in any action or change in behavior that occurs in the result os a stimulus |
| development | the process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism |
| spontaneous generation | the mistaken idea that living things arise from non-living sources |
| controlled experiment | An experiment in which all factors are identical except one |
| autotroph | an organism that makes its own food |
| heterotroph | an organism that cannot make its own food |
| homeostasis | the maintenance of stable internal conditions |