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activities to manteing homeostasis
Term | Definition |
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Biology | the study of life and living organisms |
AEROBIC | relating to, involving, or requiring free oxygen |
METABOLISM | the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life. |
SEXUAL | the production of new living organisms by combining genetic information from two individuals of different types (sexes). |
HOMEOSTASIS | the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes. |
LIFE | the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. the existence of an individual human being or animal. |
ANAEROBIC | relating to, involving, or requiring an absence of free oxygen. |
ASEXUAL | Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, and inherit the genes of that parent only; it does not involve the fusion of gametes and almost never changes the number of chromosomes. |