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Life functions
Jobs or activities the of body
Term | Definition |
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biology | study of life |
life | your existence |
organism | living things |
life processes | jobs carried out by the body |
homeostasis | maintaining a constant, stable, internal environment |
metabolism | all of your chemical activities |
aerobic | required oxygen |
anaerobic | requiring an absence of oxygen |
sexual | two parents |
asexual | one parent |
biotic | living factors in the environment |
unicellular | one cell |
multicellular | many cells |
prokaryote | no true nucleus |
eukaryote | true nucleus |
nutrition | taking in materials from the environment into the body |
transport | distribution of materials in/out of cells |
respiration | releasing chemical energy from food |
synthesis | building complex material from simpler ones |
assimilation | incorporating them into the body |
growth | increase in cell number and cell size |
excretion | removal of metabolic waste product |
reproduction | making more of the species |
G | growth |
R | reproduction |
R | respiration |
R | regulation |
N | nutrition |
E | excretion |
T | transport |
S | synthesis |