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2.1 science vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organism | living thing |
| Cell | the basic unit of structure and function in an organism |
| Unicellular | single-celled organisms that include bacteria |
| Multicellular hi | organisms that are composed of many cells that are specialized to do certain tasks |
| Stimulus | a change in an organisms surroundings that causes the organism to react |
| Response | an action or change in behavior |
| Development | the process of change that occurs during an organisms life to produce a more complex organism |
| Spontaneous Generation | a mistaken idea that living things can arise from nonliving sources |
| Autotroph | organisms that make their own food |
| Heterotroph | organisms that cannot make their own food |
| Homeostasis | the maintenance of stable eternal conditions |