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C. of Living Things
Characteristics of Living Things
Term | Definition |
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Scavenger | An animal that eats other dead animals or dead plants. |
Decomposer | A living thing that gets its energy by breaking down the remains of other living things that are dead. They also eat animal wastes and consume or absorb the nutrients. |
Consumer | A living thing that eats other living things or dead animal or plant material. |
Producer | A living thing that can make its own food by using the energy that is around it. |
Asexual Reproduction | Reproduction that doesn't need the union of sex cells where one parent brings about offspring that look a little bit like the parent. |
Metabolism | The whole chemical process that happen in a living thing. |
Heredity | The passing of traits from parent to child. |
Stimulus | Anything that causes a response or change in an living thing or part of a living thing. |
Sexual Reproduction | Reproduction where the sex cells from two parents unite to produce children that will look a little bit like both of the parents. |
Homeostasis | The control of a continuous internal state in a changing world. |
Cell | The smallest thing that can perform all life processes. |
Response | A reaction of a living thing. |