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science ch.1
vocabulary
| 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 | made of many cells |
| stimulus | A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react. |
| response | An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a sitimulus. |
| development | The process of change that occurs during an organism's life to porduce a more complex organsim. |
| spontaneous generation | The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources. |
| controlled experiment | An experiment in which all factors are indentical excpet one. |
| autotroph | An organism that makes its own food. |
| heterotroph | An organism that cannot makes its own food. |
| homeostasis | The maintenance of stable internal condiciones. |
| classification | The process of grouping things based on their similarities. |
| taxonomy | The scientfic study of how living things are classified |
| binomial nomenclature | The system for naming organisms in which each organisms is given a unique, two-part scientific name indicating its genus and species |
| genus | A classification grouping that consists of a number of similar, closely related species |
| species | A group of of similar organism that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reporduce |
| evolution | The process by which species gradually change over time |
| prokaryote | An organism whose cells lack nucleus and some other cell structures |
| nucleus | The dense area in a eukaryote cell that contains nucleic acids, the chemical instructtions that direct the cell's activities |
| eukaryote | An organism whose cells contain nuclei |