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cell vocab
Question | Answer |
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heredity | the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring |
metabolism | the sum of all chemical processes that occur in an organism |
asexual reproduction | reproduction that does not involve union of sex cells and in which one parent produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent. |
producer | |
consumer | a person or thing that eats or uses something. |
decomposer | an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material. |
Scavenger | an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse. |
stimulus | anything that causes a reaction or charge in a organism or any part of an organism. |
sexual reproduction | reproduction in which the sex cells from two parents unite to produce offspring that share traits from both parents. |
cell | the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism, typically microscopic and consisting of cytoplasm and a nucleus enclosed in a membrane. Microscopic organisms typically consist of a single cell, which is either eukaryotic or prokaryotic. |
response | a reaction to something. |
homeostasis | the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes. |