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Life Funtions
jobs of body
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biology | the study of living organisms |
| Metabolism | all chemical activities of the body |
| LIfe | |
| Aerobic | oxygen |
| Organism | an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form. |
| Anaerobic | absence of free oxygen. |
| Life processes | organisms must carry out in order to maintain homeostasis |
| Sexual | the existence of an individual human being or animal. |
| Homeostasis | maintained by physiological processes. |
| Asexual | offspring arise from a single organism, |
| biotic | resulting from living things |
| G.R.R.R.N.E.T.S | |
| Growth | increasing in physical size. |
| Reproduction | making more of the spices |
| Regulation | all body activities that help in maintaining homeostasis |
| Excretion | removal of metabolic waste product |
| Synthesis /Assimilation | building complex material from simpler ones and incorporating them into the body |
| Respiration | releasing chemical energy from food |
| Nutrition | taking in materials from the mouth into the body |
| Transport | distribution of materials in/out of cells |
| Unicellular | one cell |
| Multicellular | many cells |
| Prokaryote | no true nucleus |
| Eukaryote | true nucleus |
| Autotrophic | self feeder |
| Hetotrophic | different way to find found |
| Ingestion | |
| Digestion | |
| Egestion | |
| Homeostasis | maintaining a constant, stable internal environment. |