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Science 1
Biology words
Question | Answer |
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Metabolism | The sum total of all processes in an organism which convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy to sustain the organism's life function. |
Anabolism | The sum total f all processes in an organism which use energy ad simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life. |
Catabolism | The sum of all processes in an organism which break down chemicals to produce energy ans simple chemical building blocks. |
Photosythesis | The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food. |
Herbivores | Organisms that eat only plants. |
Carnivores | Organisms that eat only organisms other then plants. |
Omnivores | Organisms that ea both plants and other organisms |
Producers | Organisms that produce their own food. |
Consumers | Organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for food. |
Decomposers | Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms. |
Autotrophs | Organisms that are able to make their own food. |
Hetertrophs | Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food. |
Receptors | Special structures that allow living organisms to sense that conditions of their internal or external environment. |
Asexual Reproduction | Reproduction accomplished by a single organism. |
Sexual Reproduction | Reproduction that requires two organisms. |
Inheritance | The process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring. |
Mutation | An abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of it's parents. |
Hypothesis | An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question. |
Theory | A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data. |
Scientific Law | A theory has been tested by ans consistent with generations of data. |
Microorganisms | Living creatures that are too small to see with a naked eye. |
Abiogenesis | The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions. |
Prokaryotic Cell | A cell that has no distinct membrane-bounded organelles. |
Eukaryotic Cell | A cell with distinct membrane-bounded organelles. |
Species | A unit of on or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and care reproductively isolated from other such units. |
Taxonomy | The science of classifying organisms. |
Binomial Nomendature | Nmaing an rganism with it's genus and species name. |