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C & N: living things
Characteristics and Needs of Living Things
Term | Definition |
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Autotroph | An organisms that makes its own food |
Cell | The basic unit of structure and function in an organism |
Development | The act of becoming more complex |
Growth | The act of becoming larger |
Homeostasis | The maintenance of stable internal conditions |
Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food |
Multicellular | An organism composed of more than one cell |
Organism | A living thing |
Reproduce | to produce offspring |
Response | A change in an organism's behavior as a reaction to a stimulus |
Spontaneous Generation | the mistaken idea that living things come from nonliving things |
Stimulus | A change in the environment that causes an organism to react |
Unicellular | an organism composed of only one cell |