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Life functions
Jobs or activities the of body
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |