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Life Functions
activites of the body
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biology | a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, identification and taxonomy. |
| Life | the existence of an individual human being or animal. |
| Organism | an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form. |
| Life process | the series of actions that are essential to determine if an animal is alive. Living things have seven essential processes in common: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition. |
| Homeostasis | the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes. |
| Metabolism | a term that is used to describe all chemical reactions involved in maintaining the living state of the cells and the organism |
| Aerobic | relating to, involving, or requiring free oxygen. |
| Anaerobic | relating to, involving, or requiring an absence of free oxygen. |
| Sexual | relating to the instincts, physiological processes, and activities connected with physical attraction or intimate physical contact between individuals. |
| Asexual | without sexual feelings or associations. |
| Biotic | of, relating to, or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations |
| Growth | |
| Reproduction | |
| Regulation | |
| Respiration | |
| Nurtition | |
| Excretion | |
| Transport | |
| Syhthesis |