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Life Funtions
jobs of body
Term | Definition |
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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. |