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2.1 vocabulary terms
Chapter 2 vocabulary terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| organism | peaple,pets,insects,and plants. |
| cell | a basic unit of structure and function in an organism. |
| the most numerous organism on Earth. ex: bacteria. | |
| organisms are composed of many cells that are specialized to do certain tasks | |
| include changes in temperature,light,sound,and other factors | |
| an action or change in behavior. | |
| is the prosses of change that occurs during an organism’s life to produce a more complex organism. | |
| the mistaken idea that living things can arise from nonliving sources. | |
| organisms that make their own food. | |
| an organism that can’t ake their own food | |
| the maintenance of stable internal conditions | |
| he procces of grouping things based on their similarities | |
| the procces of grouping things based on their similarities | |
| scientific study of how living things are classified. | |
| the naming system Linnaeus | |
| a classification grouping that contains similar, closely related organism. | |
| a group of similar organism that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce. | |
| an organism whose cells lack a nucleus | |
| a dense area ina cell that contains nucleic acids | |
| organisms in a domain | |
| a instruments that makes small objects look larger. | |
| a widely accepted explanation of the relationship between cells and living things. |